Open AccessComments on Ernest Weinrib’s ideas of “correlativity and personality”
Author(s) -
Catarina Helena Cortada Barbieri
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista iberc
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2595-976X
DOI - 10.37963/iberc.v3i3.122
Subject(s) - tort , normative , economic justice , argument (complex analysis) , field (mathematics) , sociology , personality , core (optical fiber) , law , epistemology , law and economics , psychology , philosophy , political science , psychoanalysis , computer science , liability , medicine , mathematics , telecommunications , pure mathematics
This article aims to explain some of the core concepts that tort law philosopher Ernest Weinrib has expounded in his latest book “Corrective Justice” (2012). The article concentrates on the first chapter of the book, “Correlativity and Personality”, in which Weinrib lays down the core of his conceptual and normative argument about corrective justice. Understanding this core concepts may be of interest for any scholar delving into Weinrib’s ouvre for the first time, and might bring a renewed interested for those in the tort law field already familiar with his contentions about the relationship between tort law and corrective justice.