Jenny Steele

Risks and Legal Theory

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In almost every field of law,from tort and contract to environmental law and criminal justice, issues about 'risk' are increasingly of interest to lawyers. At the same time, there has been little general enquiry into the nature of the contact between law and risks. This book argues that ideas about risk have not traditionally been absent from law, as is sometimes supposed. Lawyers and legal theorists have used and conceptualised risk in particular ways, and ideas of risk have had significant influence in key elements of legal theory including questions of justice and responsibility. The book explores the conceptual place of risk across a numb… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-84731-113-9
EAN: 9781847311139
Produktnummer: 17207897
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 228 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 611 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Jenny Steele is Professor of Law at the York Law School, University of York, the author of Risks and Legal Theory (Hart Publishing, 2004), and Tort Law: Text, Cases and Materials 2nd edn Oxford University Press, 2010).