Gregory C. Keating

University of Southern California Gould School of Law

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1.

Distributive and Corrective Justice in the Tort Law of Accidents

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 10 May 2001
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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The Theory of Enterprise Liability and Common Law Strict Liability

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 25 Jul 2001
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Fairness and Two Fundamental Questions in the Tort Law of Accidents

USC Law School, Olin Working Paper No. 99-21
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 19 Jan 2000
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Pressing Precaution Beyond the Point of Cost-Justification

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Pressing Precaution Beyond the Point of Cost-Justification

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 08 May 2002
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Pressing Precaution Beyond the Point of Cost Justification

Number of pages: 97 Posted: 23 Jul 2003
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Is Tort a Remedial Institution?

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C10-11, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 10-10
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 04 Jul 2010
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Rawlsian Fairness and Regime Choice in the Law of Accidents

USC Law and Public Policy Research Paper No. 04-12
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 09 Jun 2004 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2009
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Nuisance as a Strict Liability Wrong

Journal of Tort Law, Vol. 4, Issue 3, Article 2, 2012, USC CLEO Research Papers Series No. C11-11, USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 11-19
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 10 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Strict Liability and the Mitigation of Moral Luck

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C06-12, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 06-17
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 10 Aug 2006
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Abusing 'Duty'

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Abusing 'Duty'

Southern California Law Review, Vol. 79, p. 265, 2006, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 06-12, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C06-7
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 10 Jul 2006
Dilan A. Esper and Gregory C. Keating
Stein & Flugge, LLP and University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Abusing 'Duty'

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 07 Mar 2005
Dilan A. Esper and Gregory C. Keating
Stein & Flugge, LLP and University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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The Priority of Respect Over Repair

18 Legal Theory 293 (2012), USC CLEO Research Papers Series No. C11-12, USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 11-20
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Is Tort Law "Private"?

Forthcoming in Oberdiek, J. & Miller, P. (eds.), Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)., USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS19-25, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. No. 19-25
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2021
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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tort law, modern tort law, private law, tort, economic analysis, tort theory, physical harm, Arthur Ripstein, Ernest Weinrib

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Products Liability as Enterprise Liability

USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 16-38
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 07 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2017
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Strict Liability Wrongs

Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Torts, Oxford University Press, p. 292, 2014, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 14-27
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2014
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Is There Really No Liability Without Fault: A Critique of Goldberg & Zipursky

Forthcoming, Fordham Law Review Online (2017), USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS16-37, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 16-41
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 07 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 15 Apr 2017
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Personal Inviolability and 'Private Law'

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C08-1, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 08-1
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 07 Jan 2008
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Is Cost-Benefit Analysis the Only Game in Town?

91 Southern California Law Review 195 (2018), USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS16-33, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 16-37
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 07 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2018
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Corrective Justice: Sovereign or Subordinate?

The Oxford Handbook of the New Private Law 2020 , USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS21-49, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 21-49
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 28 Sep 2021
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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corrective justice, tort law, private law, tort, economic analysis, tort theory, Ernest Weinrib, Jules Cole­man

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Is Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress a Freestanding Tort?

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 44, 2009, University of Southern California Center in Law, Economic & Organization Research Paper No. C09-18, University of Southern California Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-35
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 20 Aug 2009
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Recovering Rylands: An Essay for Bob Rabin

61 DePaul Law Review, Clifford Symposium on the work of Robert Rabin, 543 (2012), USC CLEO Research Papers Series No. C11-13, USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 11-21
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 10 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2013
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Reasonableness and Rationality in Negligence Tort Theory

USC Legal Studies Research Paper No. 94-10, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 48, 1995-1996
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 13 Sep 1999 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2013
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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When Is Emotional Distress Harm?

Tort Law: Challenging Orthodoxy, Stephen GA Pitel, Jason W Neyers and Erika Chamberlain, eds., Hart Publishing, September 2013, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 14-28
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2014
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Pricelessness and Life: An Essay for Guido Calabresi

Maryland Law Review, Vol. 64, p. 159, 2005, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C05-10
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 13 Sep 2005
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Comment on Gardner: Duty and Right in Private Law

Forthcoming, Jerusalem Journal of Legal Studies (2017), USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS16-40, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 16-44
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 08 Dec 2016
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Is the Role of Tort to Repair Wrongful Losses?

Chapter 13 in Donal Nolan and Andrew Robertson, eds., Rights and Private Law (Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2012), pp. 367-405, USC Law and Economics Research Papers Series No. C12-15, USC Legal Studies Research Papers Series No. 12-25
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 26 Jun 2014
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Putting 'Duty' in its Place: A Reply to Professors Goldberg & Zipursky

Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Vol. 41, 2008, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C08-10, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 08-15
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 29 May 2008 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2013
Dilan A. Esper and Gregory C. Keating
Stein & Flugge, LLP and University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Form and Substance in the "Private Law" of Torts

Keating, Gregory C.. "Form and Substance in the “Private Law” of Torts" Journal of Tort Law, vol. 14, no. 1, 2021, pp. 45-99. https://doi.org/10.1515/jtl-2020-0012., USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS21-50, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 21-50
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 28 Sep 2021
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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private law, public law, torts, rights, interests, Ripstein, Weinrib

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A Social Contract Conception of the Tort Law of Accidents

Philosophy and the Law of Torts (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Sep 2019
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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The Heroic Enterprise of the Asbestos Cases

Southwestern Law Review, Vol. 37, p. 623, 2008, USC CLEO Research Paper No. C09-17, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 09-34
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Aug 2009
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Must the Hand Formula Not Be Named?

163 University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 367 (2015), USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 16-39
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 07 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2017
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Comment on Avraham and Yuracko: Torts and the Paradox of Conservative Justice

Forthcoming, Ohio State Law Journal Online , USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS16-36, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 16-40
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 07 Dec 2016
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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Fair Precaution

Forthcoming, Hanoch Dagan & Benjamin Zipursky (eds.), Research Handbook on Private Law Theories., USC CLASS Research Paper No. CLASS19-28, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 19-28
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 22 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2021
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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: negligence, rights, interests, precaution, risk, fairness, Arthur Ripstein, Ernest Weinrib

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Between Absolutism and Efficiency: Reply to Professors Giestfeld, Grady, and Priel

USC CLASS Research Paper No. 19-27, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 19-27, Publisher in 39 Revus J. for Const. Theory & Phil. of Law, 37 (2019)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 20 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2022
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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absolutism, utility, rights, efficiency, negligence, trade-offs, precaution, risk, safety, responsibility, welfare, cost-benefit analysis, priority of avoiding harm

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Property Right and Tortious Wrong in Vincent v. Lake Erie

Issues in Legal Scholarship, Article 6 (2005)
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 04 Sep 2019
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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The Idea of Fairness in the Law of Enterprise Liability

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 5, 1997
Number of pages: 115 Posted: 29 Aug 2019
Gregory C. Keating
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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