1. Moral and Legal Responsibility |
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1.1.1 Starting points and themes |
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1.1.2. The structure of the book |
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1.2 The institutions of law and morality |
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10 | (2) |
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1.3 The relationship between law and morality |
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12 | (3) |
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1.4 Moral reasoning and legal reasoning |
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1.4.1 Practical and analytical reasoning |
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1.4.2 Context and levels of abstraction |
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22 | (3) |
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1.4.3 Deduction, induction and analogy |
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25 | (3) |
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2. The Nature and Functions of Responsibility |
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2.1 Varieties of responsibility |
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29 | (14) |
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29 | (2) |
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2.1.2 The temporal element in responsibility |
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31 | (8) |
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2.1.3 Personal and vicarious responsibility |
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39 | (1) |
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2.1.4 Individual, shared and group responsibility |
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40 | (3) |
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2.2 Responsibility and sanctions |
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43 | (1) |
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2.3 Responsibility, evidence and proof |
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44 | (5) |
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2.4 Responsibility as a relational phenomenon |
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49 | (7) |
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2.4.1 Responsibility, agents and outcomes: three paradigms of legal responsibility |
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49 | (4) |
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2.4.2 Responsibility and social values |
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53 | (3) |
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56 | (1) |
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2.5 Functions of responsibility practices |
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56 | (4) |
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2.6 Responsibility, liability and the functions of law |
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60 | (3) |
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63 | (2) |
3. Responsibility and Culpability |
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3.1 Responsibility, liability and culpability |
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65 | (1) |
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3.2 Responsibility and luck |
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66 | (12) |
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3.2.1 Limited sensitivity to luck |
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66 | (3) |
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3.2.2 Limited sensitivity to circumstantial luck |
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69 | (3) |
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3.2.3 Limited sensitivity to dispositional luck |
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72 | (4) |
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3.2.4 Liability, sanctions and dispositional luck |
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76 | (2) |
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3.3 Criteria of legal liability |
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82 | (3) |
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3.4 The incidence of fault-based and strict liability |
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85 | (3) |
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3.5 The nature and function of legal criteria of liability |
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3.5.1 Liability criteria are nested |
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3.5.2 Liability criteria are building blocks |
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3.5.3 Liability criteria and answers |
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89 | (3) |
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3.5.4 Liability criteria and sanctions |
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92 | (2) |
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3.6 Responsibility, fault and culpability |
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3.6.1 "Moral responsibility requires intentionality" |
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95 | (1) |
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3.6.2 Some definitional preliminaries |
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96 | (1) |
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3.6.3 The importance of choice |
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97 | (13) |
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110 | (3) |
4. Responsibility and Causation |
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113 | (30) |
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4.1 Causation, consequences and outcomes |
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114 | (1) |
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4.2 The nature of causation in law |
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115 | (5) |
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4.2.1 The scope of the causation question |
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115 | (1) |
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4.2.2 The temporal orientation of causation |
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116 | (1) |
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4.2.3 The meaning of "cause" |
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117 | (1) |
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4.2.4 Causation as interpretation |
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118 | (1) |
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4.2.5 Causation in the criminal law and civil law paradigms |
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119 | (1) |
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120 | (8) |
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4.3.1 The but-for and NESS tests |
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120 | (3) |
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4.3.2 Causation, proof and uncertainty |
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123 | (5) |
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4.4 Attributive causation |
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128 | (8) |
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4.4.1 The relationship between causation and responsibility |
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128 | (2) |
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4.4.2 Principles of causal responsibility |
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130 | (6) |
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4.5 Causation in law and morality |
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136 | (4) |
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140 | (3) |
5. Responsibility and Personality |
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143 | (38) |
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5.1 Three issues of personality and responsibility |
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143 | (1) |
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5.2 Approaches to the relationship between personality and responsibility |
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143 | (2) |
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5.3 Legal personality and the corporation |
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145 | (3) |
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5.4 Legal principles of group personality |
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148 | (10) |
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5.4.1 Responsibility, personality and rules of attribution |
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148 | (2) |
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5.4.2 Responsibility and capacity |
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150 | (1) |
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5.4.3 Basic legal rules of attribution |
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151 | (7) |
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5.5 Group responsibility and division of labour |
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158 | (4) |
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5.6 The scope and functions of group responsibility |
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162 | (1) |
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5.7 Legal and moral group responsibility |
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163 | (2) |
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5.8 Modified humanistic approaches |
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165 | (4) |
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169 | (2) |
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5.10 Shared responsibility |
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171 | (8) |
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5.10.1 The relationship between group and shared responsibility |
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171 | (1) |
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5.10.2 Joint and concurrent responsibility |
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172 | (1) |
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5.10.3 Contributory negligence |
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173 | (1) |
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5.10.4 Secondary responsibility |
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173 | (1) |
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5.10.5 Secondary and group responsibility |
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174 | (1) |
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5.10.6 Vicarious responsibility |
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175 | (2) |
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5.10.7 Assessing shares of responsibility |
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177 | (2) |
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179 | (2) |
6. Grounds and Bounds of Responsibility |
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181 | (44) |
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6.1 The basic argument and a prospectus |
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181 | (1) |
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6.2 Responsibility, protected interests and the functions of law |
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181 | (5) |
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6.3 Responsibility, distributive justice and the functions of law |
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186 | (4) |
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6.4 Protected interests, proscribed conduct and distributive justice |
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190 | (1) |
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6.5 Grounds of legal responsibility |
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191 | (19) |
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6.5.1 Breach of promises and undertakings |
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191 | (5) |
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6.5.2 Interference with rights |
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196 | (2) |
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198 | (2) |
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200 | (2) |
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202 | (4) |
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6.5.6 Creating risks of harm |
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206 | (2) |
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208 | (1) |
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6.5.8 Contemplating crimes |
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209 | (1) |
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6.6 The bounds of legal responsibility |
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210 | (14) |
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6.6.1 For breach of promises and undertakings |
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210 | (1) |
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6.6.2 For interference with rights |
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211 | (2) |
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6.6.3 For uttering untruths |
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213 | (1) |
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6.6.4 For breach of trust |
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213 | (1) |
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214 | (7) |
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6.6.6 For creating risks of harm |
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221 | (1) |
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221 | (2) |
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6.6.8 For contemplating crimes |
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223 | (1) |
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224 | (1) |
7. Realising Responsibility |
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225 | (26) |
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7.1 The "law in the books" vs the "law in action" |
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225 | (1) |
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226 | (13) |
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7.2.1 The nature of settlements |
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226 | (3) |
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7.2.2 The dynamics of the settlement process |
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229 | (3) |
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7.2.3 For and against settlement |
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232 | (3) |
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7.2.4 Settlement and responsibility |
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235 | (4) |
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7.3 Selective enforcement |
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239 | (2) |
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7.4 Spreading legal responsibility |
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241 | (8) |
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7.4.1 The importance of insurance in civil law |
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241 | (1) |
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7.4.2 Insurance and interpretations of tort law |
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242 | (3) |
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7.4.3 A relational and functional account of the relationship between responsibility and liability insurance |
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245 | (4) |
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249 | (2) |
8. Responsibility in Public Law |
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251 | (28) |
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8.1 The public law paradigm |
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251 | (3) |
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8.2 The institutional framework of public law |
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254 | (2) |
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8.3 The province of public law |
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256 | (2) |
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8.4 Grounds of public law responsibility |
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258 | (14) |
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258 | (6) |
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264 | (4) |
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268 | (4) |
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8.5 Bounds of public law responsibility |
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272 | (3) |
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272 | (1) |
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273 | (1) |
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273 | (2) |
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8.6 Public law responsibility and "the problem of dirty hands" |
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275 | (3) |
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278 | (1) |
9. Thinking about Responsibility |
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279 | (6) |
References |
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285 | (12) |
Index |
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