Instrumental and noninstrumental theories of tort law

Indiana Law Journal

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 469-525

  Posner, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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References (46)

1. O. W. Holmes, The Path ofthe Law, 10 HARV. L. REV. 457, 462 (1897).
2. United States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169, 173 (2d Cir. 1947).
3. The "Hand Formula" is restated in formal economic terms in RICHARD A. POSNER, ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF LAW 214 n. 2 (8th ed. 2011).
4. On the economic approach to tort law generally, see WILLIAM M. LANDES & RICHARD A. POSNER, THE ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF TORT LAW (1987).
5. Listed in Christopher J. Robinette, Why Civil Recourse Theory Is Incomplete, 78 TENN. L. REV. 431, 432 n. 3 (2011).
6. Probably the place to start is with John C. P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky, Torts as Wrongs, 88 TEX. L. REV. 917 (2010).
7. Other articles by them (separately or together) are cited in Table 1 infra. And soon there will be a book by them explaining their approach at greater length: RECOGNIZING RESPONSIBILITIES: DUTY AND CIVIL RECOURSE IN THE LAW OF TORTS (forthcoming 2013, Harvard University Press).
8. RICHARD A. POSNER, LAW, PRAGMATISM, AND DEMOCRACY 284-86 (2003).
9. Larry Reibstein, Rethinking Tort Law: Professor Benjamin Zipursky's Civil Recourse Theory Moves to a Leading Position in American Tort Theory, FORDHAM LAW., Spring 2012, at 12-14.
10. Michael L. Rustad, Torts as Public Wrongs, 38 PEPP. L. REV. 433 (2011).
11. See also an earlier, also highly critical, article, Jane Stapleton, Evaluating Goldberg and Zipursky's Civil Recourse Theory, 75 FORDHAM L. REV. 1529 (2006)
12. and the critical remarks in Professor Rustad's introduction to this symposium, Michael L. Rustad, Twenty-First-Century Tort Theories: The Internalist/Externalist Debate, 88 IND. L. J. 419 (2013).
13. Mathias v. Accor Econ. Lodging, Inc., 347 F.3d 672 (7th Cir. 2003).
14. Mathias, 347 F.3d at 678.
15. Mathias, 347 F.3d at 676-77 (some citations omitted). Although Goldberg and Zipursky cite only to page 677 of the opinion in their article, to make the discussion on that page intelligible I have begun the quotation shortly before the end of the preceding page.
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28. Jones v. City of Chicago, 856 F.2d 985 (7th Cir. 1988).
29. Duckworth v. Franzen, 780 F.2d 645 (7th Cir. 1985).
30. Lewis v. Faulkner, 689 F.2d 100 (7th Cir. 1982).
31. Walker v. Thompson, 288 F.3d 1005 (7th Cir. 2002).
32. Bastian v. Petren Res. Corp., 892 F.2d 680 (7th Cir. 1990).
33. Jackson v. Marion Cnty., 66 F.3d 151 (7th Cir. 1995).
34. Moore v. Marketplace Rest., Inc., 754 F.2d 1336 (7th Cir. 1985).
35. Reed v. Vill. of Shorewood, 704 F.2d 943 (7th Cir. 1983).
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37. Dominion Nutrition, Inc. v. Cesca, 467 F. Supp. 2d 870 (N. D. Ill. 2006).
38. Turek v. Gen. Mills, Inc., 662 F.3d 423 (7th Cir. 2011).
39. Kentuckiana Healthcare, Inc. v. Fourth St. Solutions, LLC, 517 F.3d 446 (7th Cir. 2008).
40. Vickery v. Westinghouse-Haztech, Inc., 956 F.2d 161 (7th Cir. 1992).
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43. Fletcher v. Chicago Rail Link, LLC, 568 F.3d 638 (7th Cir. 2009).
44. Johnson v. Evinger, 517 F.3d 921 (7th Cir. 2008).
45. Smentek v. Dart, 683 F.3d 373 (7th Cir. 2012).
46. Prude v. Clarke, 675 F.3d 732 (7th Cir. 2012).