Concerning Cause and the Law of Torts: An Essay for Harry Kalven, Jr.
dc.contributor.author | Calabresi, Guido | |
dc.date | 2021-11-25T13:34:21.000 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-26T11:37:36Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-26T11:37:36Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1975-01-01T00:00:00-08:00 | |
dc.identifier | fss_papers/2001 | |
dc.identifier.contextkey | 1851456 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/1284 | |
dc.description.abstract | In 1960 I walked into an office at The University of Chicago Law School. There I found Walter Blum and Harry Kalven. They had just read a draft of what was to become my first article. Harry greeted me with: "it's all wrong . . . but I wish I had written an article like that when I was your age!" This began the debate. Blum and Kalven delivered the Shulman Lectures at Yale, Public Law Perspectives on a Private Law Problem—Auto Compensation Plans; I struck back in Fault, Accidents and the Wonderful World of Blum and Kalven; but they had the last laugh in The Empty Cabinet of Doctor Calabresi. I believe that the law of torts benefited from that hard fought polemic. I know that I, as a young scholar, could not have had a tougher, or more loving, initiation to scholarship. Fifteen years have passed and Harry is no more. Because I think that he would disagree with this paper as much as he did with my first, I gratefully dedicate it to his memory. | |
dc.title | Concerning Cause and the Law of Torts: An Essay for Harry Kalven, Jr. | |
dc.source.journaltitle | Faculty Scholarship Series | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-26T11:37:36Z | |
dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2001 | |
dc.identifier.legacyfulltext | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3046&context=fss_papers&unstamped=1 |