Equality,Responsibility,andtheLaw(CambridgeStudiesinPhilosophyandLaw)

Thisbookexaminesresponsibilityandluckastheseissuesariseintortlaw,criminallaw,anddistributivejustice.Thecentralquestionis:whosebadluckisaparticularpieceofmisfortune?ArthurRipsteinarguesthatthereisageneralsetofprinciplestobefoundthatclarifiesresponsibilityinthosecaseswhereluckismostobviouslyanissue:accidents,mistakes,emergencies,andfailedattemptsatcrime.Inrevealinghowtheproblemsthatariseintortandcriminallawaswellasdistributivejusticeinvitestructurallyparallelsolutions,theauthoralsoshowsthedeepconnectionbetweenindividualresponsibilityandsocialequality.Thisisachallengingandprovocativebookthatwillbeofspecialinteresttomoralandpoliticalphilosophers,legaltheorists,andpoliticalscientists.