Download This PaperPioneers, Consolidators and Iconoclasts: The Story of Tort Scholarship
James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan, 'Pioneers, Consolidators and Iconoclasts: The Story of Tort Scholarship' in James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan (eds), Scholars of Tort Law (Hart Publishing, 2019) (book available at https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/scholars-of-tort-law-9781509910571/)
42 Pages Posted: 16 Sep 2019 Last revised: 17 Jul 2023
Date Written: September 6, 2019
Abstract
Common law scholarship is overwhelmingly focused on judicial decisions, with the result that the writings of even highly influential legal scholars have, by comparison, rarely been the subjects of scrutiny in their own right. This represents a serious gap in our understanding of the common law and its development. The purpose of the current volume is to begin the process of redressing this imbalance, by considering the role played by leading scholars of tort law from across the common law world in the development of the subject. The focus of the contributions is on the nature of the work produced by each of the scholars in question, important influences on them and the influence which they in turn had on thinking about tort law.
Keywords: tort; tort theory; scholarship
JEL Classification: K13
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