From: Zoe Sinel <zsinel@uwo.ca>

Sent: Wednesday 8 May 2024 13:08

To: obligations

Subject: Tort Law and Social Equality project speakers series: Hanoch Dagan and Avihay Dorfman, May 17 at 12pm (Zoom)

Attachments: Dagan & Dorfman.pdf

Dear colleagues:

Next Friday (May 17) at 12pm, for the Tort Law and Social Equality project, Hanoch Dagan (Berkeley) and Avihay Dorfman (Tel Aviv) will present their paper "The Value of Personal Rights of Action." 

The paper claims claim that contemporary champions of personal rights of action do not explain why and when these rights matter. Moreover, contemporary critics of these rights do not explain why all such rights should be replaced with other alternatives to the traditional system of common-law litigation, such as collective litigation. Their core thesis is that some personal rights of action can be valuable in and of themselves that is, they carry freestanding value, beyond their contribution to vindicating plaintiffs substantive rights. On other cases, personal rights of action are legal technologies that are rightly dispensable with others if these replacements can better ensure the vindication of private plaintiffs rights. The key question, therefore, is not only whether personal rights of action are intrinsically valuable, but rather when. Dagan and Dorfman employ the normative framework of relational justice to address these questions. 

Please see attached poster for further details including the Zoom link. These details and the link can also be found on the TLSE website here.

I hope to see many of you there. Please share the details and poster widely to those you think might be interested.

Best,

Zo

Zo Sinel
Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies)
Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario
519.661.2111 x83832

Editor, Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence

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