5 FOURTH PART: THE POLITICS OF INTENTIONAL TORT LAW 5 FOURTH PART: THE POLITICS OF INTENTIONAL TORT LAW
5.1 Class 15: Thursday 3/27 - Hohfeld & the Critique of Rights 5.1 Class 15: Thursday 3/27 - Hohfeld & the Critique of Rights
5.1.1 Hohfeldian analysis 5.1.1 Hohfeldian analysis
Reading(s): Kenneth J. Vandevelde, The New Property of the 19th Century, 29 Buff. L. Rev. 325 (1981) Joseph William Singer, The Legal Rights Debate in Analytical Jurisprudence from Bentham to Hohfeld, 1982 Wis. L. Rev. 975, p. 1025-1034, p. 1050-1053 [damnum absque injuria; implications for conceptualism]
5.1.1.1. Kenneth J. Vandevelde, The New Property of the 19th Century, 29 Buff. L. Rev. 325 (1981)
5.1.1.2. Joseph William Singer, The Legal Rights Debate in Analytical Jurisprudence from Bentham to Hohfeld, 1982 Wis. L. Rev. 975
5.1.2 A conservative abuse of rights reasoning or “Hohfeldian error”? 5.1.2 A conservative abuse of rights reasoning or “Hohfeldian error”?
Reading(s): Gregory & Kalven, The House of Lords Trilogy Sherman Act, Clayton Act, Taft-Hartley Act Steve Wagner, How Did the Taft-Hartley Act Come About? W.N. Hohfeld, Some Fundamental Concepts as Used in Judicial Reasoning, 23 Yale L.J. 16 (1913) Joseph William Singer, The Legal Rights Debate in Analytical Jurisprudence from Bentham to Hohfeld, 1982 Wis. L. Rev. 975, p.986-989, p. 993-994 [Hohfeld’s system; restatement of the contradiction]
5.1.2.1. Gregory & Kalven, The House of Lords Trilogy; Sherman Act, Clayton Act, Taft-Hartley Act
5.1.2.2. Steve Wagner, How Did the Taft-Hartley Act Come About?
5.1.2.3. W.N. Hohfeld, Some Fundamental Concepts as Used in Judicial Reasoning, 23 Yale L.J. 16 (1913)
5.1.2.4. Joseph William Singer, The Legal Rights Debate in Analytical Jurisprudence from Bentham to Hohfeld, 1982 Wis. L. Rev. 975
5.1.3 A liberal abuse of rights reasoning? 5.1.3 A liberal abuse of rights reasoning?
Reading(s): Przybla v. Przybla, 87 Wis. 2d 441 (Wis. Ct. App. 1978)
5.1.3.1. Przybla v. Przybla, 87 Wis. 2d 441 (Wis. Ct. App. 1978)
5.1.4 The Critique of Rights in Private Law 5.1.4 The Critique of Rights in Private Law
Reading(s): Charles Donahue, The Future of Property Predicted from Its Past Duncan Kennedy, A Critique of Adjudication [fin de siècle], p. 304-311, 315-323 Richard Posner, The Problems of Jurisprudence (one para on Rights)
5.1.4.1. Charles Donahue, The Future of Property Predicted from Its Past
5.1.4.2. Duncan Kennedy, A Critique of Adjudication [fin de siècle], p. 304-311, 315-323
5.1.4.3. Richard Posner, The Problems of Jurisprudence (one para on Rights)
5.2 Class 16: Friday 3/28 - Veghelan, Bering and the Background Rules Thesis 5.2 Class 16: Friday 3/28 - Veghelan, Bering and the Background Rules Thesis
5.2.1 The Holmes thesis about ideology in adjudication 5.2.1 The Holmes thesis about ideology in adjudication
Reading(s): Prosser [social engineering] Restatement (Second) of Torts § 766 Restatement (Second) of Torts § 767 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Privilege, Malice and Intent, 8 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (1894)
5.2.1.1. Prosser [social engineering]; Restatement (Second) of Torts §§ 766, 767
5.2.1.2. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Privilege, Malice and Intent, 8 Harv. L. Rev. 1 (1894)
5.2.2 A conservative abuse of rights reasoning or “Hohfeldian error”? 5.2.2 A conservative abuse of rights reasoning or “Hohfeldian error”?
Reading(s): Veghelan v. Guntner, 44 N.E. 1077 (Mass. 1896) Summers & Wellington, Note on Picketing and Who Shall Decide Whether It is Peaceful Gorman on Labor Law [The Right to picket] John Nockleby, Tortious Interference with Contractual Relations in the Nineteenth Century: The Transformation of Property, Contract and Tort, 93 Harv. L. Rev. 1510, 1537-39 (1980)
5.2.2.1. Veghelan v. Guntner, 44 N.E. 1077 (Mass. 1896)
5.2.2.2. Summers & Wellington, Note on Picketing and Who Shall Decide Whether It is Peaceful
5.2.2.3. Gorman on Labor Law [The Right to picket]
5.2.2.4. John Nockleby, Tortious Interference with Contractual Relations in the Nineteenth Century: The Transformation of Property, Contract and Tort, 93 Harv. L. Rev. 1510, 1537-39 (1980)
5.2.3 A liberal abuse of rights reasoning? 5.2.3 A liberal abuse of rights reasoning?
Reading(s): Bering v. Share, 106 Wash. 2d 212 (1986) Headnote of Madsen v. Women’s Health Center, 512 U.S. 753 (1994)
5.2.3.1. Bering v. Share, 106 Wash. 2d 212 (1986)
5.2.3.2. Headnote of Madsen v. Women’s Health Center, 512 U.S. 753 (1994)
5.2.4 The Background Rules Thesis 5.2.4 The Background Rules Thesis
Reading(s): Duncan Kennedy, The Stakes of Law, or Hale and Foucault!, p. 1-19
5.2.4.1. Duncan Kennedy, The Stakes of Law, or Hale and Foucault!
5.3 Class 17: Thursday 4/3 - The Creation and Limitation of Sexual Harassment Liability and the Partial Abolition of Criminal Conversation 5.3 Class 17: Thursday 4/3 - The Creation and Limitation of Sexual Harassment Liability and the Partial Abolition of Criminal Conversation
5.3.1 Assault & IIED 5.3.1 Assault & IIED
Reading(s): Assault I. de S. and Wife v. W. de S Tuberville v. Savage, 86 Eng. Rep. 684 (K.B. 1669) W. Blackstone, Commentaries, Vol. 3, p. 120 (1790) IIED Wilkinson v. Downton, (1897) 2 Q.B. 57 Restatement (Second) of Torts § 46 Mass. Anti-stalking law (Mass. Ann. Laws ch. 265, § 43) Restatement (Second) of Torts § 312
5.3.1.1. Readings: Assault & IIED
5.3.2 Sexual harassment as employment discrimination 5.3.2 Sexual harassment as employment discrimination
Reading(s): Bundy v. Jackson, 641 F.2d 934 (D.C. Cir. 1981) Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986)
5.3.2.1. Bundy v. Jackson, 641 F.2d 934 (D.C. Cir. 1981)
5.3.2.2. Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, 477 U.S. 57 (1986)
5.3.3 Spouse’s sexuality as an entitlement 5.3.3 Spouse’s sexuality as an entitlement
Reading(s): Fadgen v. Lenkner, 365 A.2d 147 (Pa. 1976) Jack Goldsmith, Op-Ed., Vindication Not Vengeance, N.Y. Times, Aug. 14, 1997 Jill Jones, Comment, Fanning Old Flames: Alienation of Affections and Criminal Conversation Reconsidered, 26 Pepp. L. Rev. 61 (1998), SKIM PAGES 77-88
5.3.3.1. Fadgen v. Lenkner, 365 A.2d 147 (Pa. 1976)
5.3.3.2. Jack Goldsmith, Op-Ed., Vindication Not Vengeance, N.Y. Times, Aug. 14, 1997
5.3.3.3. Jill Jones, Comment, Fanning Old Flames: Alienation of Affections and Criminal Conversation Reconsidered, 26 Pepp. L. Rev. 61 (1998)
5.4 Class 18: Friday 4/4 - The Defense of Necessity & the Economic Analysis of Law 5.4 Class 18: Friday 4/4 - The Defense of Necessity & the Economic Analysis of Law
5.4.1 Economic necessity as a defense in trespass 5.4.1 Economic necessity as a defense in trespass
Reading(s): Ploof v. Putnam, 71 A. 188 (Vt. 1908) Vincent v. Lake Erie, 124 N.W. 221 (Minn. 1910) Restatement (Second) of Torts §197 Duncan Kennedy, Torts outline on necessity (1988)
5.4.1.1. Ploof v. Putnam; Vincent v. Lake Erie; Restatement (Second) of Torts §197
5.4.1.2. Duncan Kennedy, Torts outline on necessity (1988)
5.4.2 The economic approach to rule making in tort law 5.4.2 The economic approach to rule making in tort law
Reading(s): Ronald Coase, The Problem of Social Cost, 3 J.L. & Econ. 1, 2 (1960) & Joseph Singer note Duncan Kennedy, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Entitlement Problems: A Critique, 33 Stan. L. Rev. 387 (1981) Duncan Kennedy, Law and Economics from the Perspective of Critical Legal Studies, 2 The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 465 (1998)
5.4.2.1. Ronald Coase, The Problem of Social Cost, 3 J.L. & Econ. 1, 2 (1960) & Joseph Singer note
5.4.2.2. Duncan Kennedy, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Entitlement Problems: A Critique, 33 Stan. L. Rev. 387 (1981)
5.4.2.3. Duncan Kennedy, Law and Economics from the Perspective of Critical Legal Studies, 2 The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 465 (1998)
5.5 Class 19: Thursday 4/10 - The Relation between Policy Analysis & Politics 5.5 Class 19: Thursday 4/10 - The Relation between Policy Analysis & Politics
Reading(s): Duncan Kennedy, The Political Stakes in ‘Merely Technical’ Issues of Contract Law, 1 Eur. Rev. Private L. 7 (2001) Duncan Kennedy, A Critique of Adjudication [fin de siecle], p. 147-156 Duncan Kennedy, A Transnational Genealogy of Proportionality in Private Law, in Roger Brownsword, Hans Micklitz, Leone Niglia, and Steve Weatherill, eds., The Foundations of European Private Law (Hart Publishing, 2011) p.216-17