Civil wrongs occupy a significant place in private law. They are particularly prominent in tort law, but equally have a place in contract law, property and intellectual property law, unjust enrichment, fiduciary law, and in equity more broadly. Civil wrongs are also a preoccupation of leading general theories of private law, including corrective justice and civil recourse theories. According to these and other theories, the centrality of civil wrongs to civil liability shows that private law is fundamentally concerned with the expression and enforcement of norms of justice appropriate to interpersonal interaction and association. Others, sounding notes of caution or criticism, argue that a preoccupation with wrongs and remedies has meant neglect of other ways in which private law serves justice, and ways in which private law serves values other than justice. This volume comprises original papers written by a wide variety of legal theorists and philosophers exploring the nature of civil wrongs, their place in private law, and their relationship to other forms of wrongdoing.

Paul B. Miller is Professor of Law, Associate Dean of International and Graduate Programs, and Director of the Program on Private Law at Notre Dame Law School.
John Oberdiek is Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School and Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy.

List of Contributors
Introduction
Paul B. Miller & John Oberdiek
Part I. Civil Wrongs and the Foundations of Private Law
Chapter 1. The Roles of Rights
David Owens
Chapter 2. Purely Formal Wrongs
Liam B. Murphy
Chapter 3. The Relevance of Wrongs
Andrew S. Gold
Chapter 4. The Remainder: Deserting Private Wrongs?
Ori Herstein
Part II. Rights, Wrongs, and Procedure

Chapter 5. Civil Wrongs and Civil Procedure
Matthew A. Shapiro
Chapter 6. Losing the Right to Assert You've Been Wronged: A Study in Conceptual Chaos?
Kimberly Kessler Ferzan

Chapter 7. Blowing Hot and Cold: The Role of Estoppel
Larissa Katz
Part III. Civil Wrongs and Remedies

Chapter 8. The Significance of a Civil Wrong
Stephen A. Smith
Chapter 9. Secondary Duties
Victor Tadros
Chapter 10. What Do We Remedy?
Nicolas Cornell
Chapter 11. Tort Remedies as Meaningful Responses to Wrongdoing
María Guadalupe Martínez Alles

Chapter 12. Don't Crash into Mick Jagger when he's Driving his Rolls Royce
James E. Penner
Part IV. Civil Wrongs in Tort Law

Chapter 13. Joint-Carving in Deontic Tort
Ahson Azmat
Chapter 14. It's Something Personal: On the Relationality of Duty and Civil Wrongs
John Oberdiek
Chapter 15. Torts Against the State
Paul B. Miller & Jeffrey A. Pojanowski
Chapter 16. Is Modern Tort Law Private?
Gregory C. Keating
Chapter 17. Should Tort Law Demand the Impossible?
Adam Slavny

Part V. Civil Wrongs in Property Law

Chapter 18. Property Wrongs and Egalitarian Relations
Christopher Essert

Chapter 19. Owning Bad: Leverage and Spite in Property Law
Lee Fennell
Part VI. Tort, Crime, and Contract

Chapter 20. Tort Law, Expression, and Duplicative Wrongs
Findlay Stark
Chapter 21. Vosburg v. Baxendale: Recourse in Tort and Contract
John C.P. Goldberg & Benjamin C. Zipursky