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The Light Of Nature: John Locke, Natural Rights, And The Origins Of American Religious Liberty, Steven Heyman
The Light Of Nature: John Locke, Natural Rights, And The Origins Of American Religious Liberty, Steven Heyman
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Liability For Mass Sexual Abuse, Tsachi Keren-Paz, Richard Wright
Liability For Mass Sexual Abuse, Tsachi Keren-Paz, Richard Wright
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When harm is caused to victims by multiple injurers, difficult issues arise indetermining causation of, legal responsibility for, and allocation of liability forthose harms. Nowhere is this truer than in child pornography and sex traffickingcases, in which individuals have been victimized over extended periods oftime by hundreds or even many thousands of injurers, with multiple and oftenoverlapping victims of each injurer. Courts (and lawyers) struggle with thesesituations for a simple reason: they insist on applying tests of causation thatfail when the effect was over-determined by multiple conditions. The failure toproperly understand the causation issue has exacerbated failures to properlyunderstand and …