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Reconsidering Reparations, Alfred L. Brophy
Reconsidering Reparations, Alfred L. Brophy
Indiana Law Journal
Eric Posner's and Adrian Vermeule's essay, Reparations for Slavery and Other Historic Injustices, seeks a framework for defining reparations and evaluating reparations claims. It explores a limited set of past reparations, as well as the connections between those asked to pay reparations and past wrongdoers, and the connections between those receiving reparations and those injured in the past. Posner and Vermeule use that framework to evaluate the morality of reparations and the legal problems that arise in implementing reparations proposals.
This Essay takes up the Posner-Vermeule analysis at several points. It challenges their limited definition of reparations and their limited …