Giulio Fornaroli: Corrective Justice, Damages, and the Liberal State

Giulio Fornaroli, is Polonez/Marie Skłodowska–Curie Fellow at the Interdiscilplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University, in Krakow, and will be presenting the third paper of Michaelmas Term: “Corrective Justice, Damages, and the Liberal State”.

This seminar takes place in Massey Room, at Balliol College, University of Oxford (Broad St, Oxford OX1 3BJ) at 5:00pm on Thursday 31 October.

Abstract

In this presentation, I defend two theses. The first is that the idea that corrective duties has anything to do with the reparation of material damages is deeply misguided. Which shows that a popular justification for reparative practices in the law is also misguided. The second is that a system of damage reparations within a liberal state should not even aspire to merely incorporate demands of corrective justice into the law. Instead, a system of damage reparations should be sensitive to demands of both corrective and distributive justice and possibly also concerns of respect for personal autonomy.

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