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Risk, Everyday Intutions, And The Institutional Value Of Tort Law, Govind C. Persad
Risk, Everyday Intutions, And The Institutional Value Of Tort Law, Govind C. Persad
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This Note offers a normative critique of cost-benefit analysis, one informed by deontological moral theory, in the context of the debate over whether tort litigation or a non-tort approach is the appropriate response to mass harm. The first Part argues that the difference between lay and expert intuitions about risk and harm often reflects a difference in normative judgments about the existing facts, rather than a difference in belief about what facts exist, which makes the lay intuitions more defensible. The second Part considers how tort has dealt with this divergence between lay and expert perspectives. It also evaluates how …