John Oberdiek is Professor at the Rutgers University School of Law. His is also a Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy, Associate Graduate Faculty in the Rutgers Department of Philosophy, Co-Editor of the journal Law and Philosophy, and has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.

Indeed, John Oberdiek has assembled nineteen thoughtful essays and provided an extremely helpful introduction, which together make an important contribution to the ongoing enterprise of understanding and evaluating tort law (and private law, more generally).

• Introduction: Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Torts John Oberdiek: Part I: Foundations of Tort Law 1: John C.P. Goldberg and Benjamin C. Zipursky: Tort Law and Responsibility 2: Stephen Perry: Torts, Rights, and Risk 3: Mark A. Geistfeld: Compensation as a Tort Norm 4: Scott Hershovitz: Tort as a Substitute for Revenge 5: John Oberdiek: Structure and Justification in Contractualist Tort Theory 6: Eric R. Claeys: On the "Property" and the "Tort" in Trespass 7: Peter Cane: Tort Law and Public Functions Part II: Harms, Wrongs, Responsibility, and Liability 8: Victor Tadros: What Might have Been 9: Rahul Kumar: Why Reparations? 10: R.A. Duff: Repairing Harms and Answering for Wrongs 11: Linda Radzik: Tort Processes and Relational Repair 12: David Enoch: Tort Liability and Taking Responsibility 13: Kenneth W. Simons: Exploring the Relationship Between Consent, Assumption of Risk, and Victim Negligence 14: Gregory C. Keating: Strict Liability Wrongs 15: Anthony J. Sebok: Normative Theories of Punitive Damages: The Case of Deterrence Part III: Distributive Justice in Tort Law 16: John Gardner: What is Tort Law For? Part 2. The Place of Distributive Justice 17: Hanoch Sheinman: Tort Law and Distributive Justice Part IV: Skeptical Perspectives 18: Heidi M. Hurd: Finding No Fault With Negligence 19: Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan: Confused Culpability, Contrived Causation, and the Collapse of Tort Theory Bibliography

John Oberdiek is Professor at the Rutgers University School of Law. His is also a Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy, Associate Graduate Faculty in the Rutgers Department of Philosophy, Co-Editor of the journal Law and Philosophy, and has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.

Indeed, John Oberdiek has assembled nineteen thoughtful essays and provided an extremely helpful introduction, which together make an important contribution to the ongoing enterprise of understanding and evaluating tort law (and private law, more generally).

• Introduction: Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Torts John Oberdiek: Part I: Foundations of Tort Law 1: John C.P. Goldberg and Benjamin C. Zipursky: Tort Law and Responsibility 2: Stephen Perry: Torts, Rights, and Risk 3: Mark A. Geistfeld: Compensation as a Tort Norm 4: Scott Hershovitz: Tort as a Substitute for Revenge 5: John Oberdiek: Structure and Justification in Contractualist Tort Theory 6: Eric R. Claeys: On the "Property" and the "Tort" in Trespass 7: Peter Cane: Tort Law and Public Functions Part II: Harms, Wrongs, Responsibility, and Liability 8: Victor Tadros: What Might have Been 9: Rahul Kumar: Why Reparations? 10: R.A. Duff: Repairing Harms and Answering for Wrongs 11: Linda Radzik: Tort Processes and Relational Repair 12: David Enoch: Tort Liability and Taking Responsibility 13: Kenneth W. Simons: Exploring the Relationship Between Consent, Assumption of Risk, and Victim Negligence 14: Gregory C. Keating: Strict Liability Wrongs 15: Anthony J. Sebok: Normative Theories of Punitive Damages: The Case of Deterrence Part III: Distributive Justice in Tort Law 16: John Gardner: What is Tort Law For? Part 2. The Place of Distributive Justice 17: Hanoch Sheinman: Tort Law and Distributive Justice Part IV: Skeptical Perspectives 18: Heidi M. Hurd: Finding No Fault With Negligence 19: Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan: Confused Culpability, Contrived Causation, and the Collapse of Tort Theory Bibliography

John Oberdiek is Professor at the Rutgers University School of Law. His is also a Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy, Associate Graduate Faculty in the Rutgers Department of Philosophy, Co-Editor of the journal Law and Philosophy, and has been a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the University Center for Human Values at Princeton.

Indeed, John Oberdiek has assembled nineteen thoughtful essays and provided an extremely helpful introduction, which together make an important contribution to the ongoing enterprise of understanding and evaluating tort law (and private law, more generally).

• Introduction: Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Torts John Oberdiek: Part I: Foundations of Tort Law 1: John C.P. Goldberg and Benjamin C. Zipursky: Tort Law and Responsibility 2: Stephen Perry: Torts, Rights, and Risk 3: Mark A. Geistfeld: Compensation as a Tort Norm 4: Scott Hershovitz: Tort as a Substitute for Revenge 5: John Oberdiek: Structure and Justification in Contractualist Tort Theory 6: Eric R. Claeys: On the "Property" and the "Tort" in Trespass 7: Peter Cane: Tort Law and Public Functions Part II: Harms, Wrongs, Responsibility, and Liability 8: Victor Tadros: What Might have Been 9: Rahul Kumar: Why Reparations? 10: R.A. Duff: Repairing Harms and Answering for Wrongs 11: Linda Radzik: Tort Processes and Relational Repair 12: David Enoch: Tort Liability and Taking Responsibility 13: Kenneth W. Simons: Exploring the Relationship Between Consent, Assumption of Risk, and Victim Negligence 14: Gregory C. Keating: Strict Liability Wrongs 15: Anthony J. Sebok: Normative Theories of Punitive Damages: The Case of Deterrence Part III: Distributive Justice in Tort Law 16: John Gardner: What is Tort Law For? Part 2. The Place of Distributive Justice 17: Hanoch Sheinman: Tort Law and Distributive Justice Part IV: Skeptical Perspectives 18: Heidi M. Hurd: Finding No Fault With Negligence 19: Larry Alexander and Kimberly Kessler Ferzan: Confused Culpability, Contrived Causation, and the Collapse of Tort Theory Bibliography