Total run time:
20m
How does the law of tort stabilize the common law system? Professor Richard Epstein of NYU School of Law explores how torts set and enforce boundaries between parties. The law of public nuisance deals with private access to public areas, and the law of trespass with disputes between private parties. The system is designed to prevent any individual to alter boundaries in Property or Contracts unfairly to their own advantage. Watch to learn more.
Modern Tort law has a two part test to determine causation - but-for causation and proximate cause. Professor Richard Epstein explains how these two parts necessarily go together but often create confusion in trying to allocate responsibility. Rather
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Modern Tort law has a two part test to determine causation - but-for causation and proximate cause. Professor Richard Epstein explains how these two parts necessarily go together but often create confusion in trying to allocate responsibility. Rather than starting from the remote beginning of a causal chain of events, the Roman tort system started from the immediate cause and only then proceeded to consider other factors.
Professor Richard Epstein is the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Professor of Law Emeritus and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.
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Total run time:
20m
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First Year
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