Relating To Responsibility: Essays In Honour Of Tony Honoré On His 80th Birthday

Description

The essays in this volume,written by eight of the world’s leading legal theorists and philosophers, began life as papers presented at seminars (held in Canberra and New York) devoted to the ideas of Tony Honoré, who is one of the most important legal thinkers of his generation. The focus is on issues dealt with in Honoré’s recent book, Responsibility and Fault (1999), including determinism and luck, causation, outcome responsibility, and the morality of strict liability. Honoré’s book, and these essays, discuss fundamental questions about the relationship between moral and legal responsibility. They explore the contribution that the philosophy of action and of mind can make to understanding the law.

Editors Biography

Peter Cane is a Senior Research Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge. He was previously Distinguished Professor of Law at the Australian National University College of Law, and before that a Professor of Law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is the author of numerous books on law, including Atiyah’s Accidents, Compensation and the Law (8th ed, 2013), Responsibility in Law and Morality (2003), The Anatomy of Tort Law (1997), Tort Law and Economic Interests (2nd ed, 1996), and Administrative Law (5th ed, 2011).

John Gardner is Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford.