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Reciprocity, Utility, And The Law Of Aggression, Anita Bernstein
Reciprocity, Utility, And The Law Of Aggression, Anita Bernstein
Vanderbilt Law Review
The themes of incursion and boundary-crossing unite disparate legal domains. Wherever human beings cross paths and share space, law or law-like traditions develop to regulate this terrain by distinguishing permitted from proscribed intrusion.' Crimes and torts, regulation and liability, claims and defenses to claims, private law and public law all use a variety of measures--punishments, administrative rules, equitable remedies, professional discipline, and informal or extralegal sanctions-to condemn undue aggression. Concern about aggression may be found in the law of every jurisdiction in the United States.
Within American law, an extra increment of aggression can amount to the only difference between …