Dear Colleagues:

Those interested in legal theory will be interested in the following article by Andrew Gold entitled "A Theory of Redressive Justice" which is available at SSRN at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1940594. From the abstract:

 

This Essay proposes a new category of justice between individuals. This category – redressive justice – governs the enforcement of rights by a wronged party against the party who committed the wrong. More precisely, it governs the undoing of a transaction between two parties, either by a right holder, or by a party acting on a right holder’s behalf. Redressive justice is importantly distinct from leading conceptions of corrective, retributive, preventive, and distributive justice. And, as the Essay indicates, redressive justice can also provide insights for explanatory theories of private law.

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Jason Neyers
Associate Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
University of Western Ontario
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