..., and the operation of child protection and criminal laws and the law of negligence, the book explores questions about maternal autonomy, the rights of the woman and the fetus, and the role of the law in protecting those rights and providing compensation when something goes wrong....

... Kellogg Edward Devine Russell Sage Foundation workers’ compensation laws National Consumers League law of negligence master and servant American Economic Association Inter-Collegiate Socialist Society In June 1907, Crystal met with one of her New York University (NYU) Law professors about a job...

...This chapter identifies the potential legal ‘hangovers’ weighing down the contemporary laws of negligence. The term ‘legal hangovers’ refers to concepts that continue to exist within a body of law for historical reasons, but are otherwise unnecessary if not detrimental to the analysis...

... these moves is explored and refined by reflecting on the duty of care in the law of negligence, and its modern history. Finally, this chapter considers the import, but also the theoretical dispensability, of rights-talk in private law. Housman A E breach duty morality trespass Darwall Stephen O’Hara...

... basis for liability. This concept of negligence changed as the Scottish courts became increasingly aware of the jurisdictions of the concept of duty, reasonableness, and foreseeability. The chapter also outlines the convergence of the Scots and English law of negligence during the 19th century which...

...As the common law's tool for identifying behaviour that attracts neither censure nor legal liability, the reasonable person plays a central role in the law of negligence. Only those who emulate the reasonable person will be considered without fault and hence relieved of the consequences...

... owner control on management efficiency. It also surveys the law of negligence as it applies to directors, and addresses whether the role of the courts as external monitors of management efficiency could usefully be increased. The claim that the separation of ownership and control does not lead...

...For well over a century, the reasonable person — or perhaps, more accurately, the reasonable man — has been a central figure in the landscape of the law. The reasonable person has, for instance, embodied the fault component of the law of negligence and played an important role in criminal law...