The Body as Property and the Problem of Damages
| dc.contributor.author | Grosman, Lucas | |
| dc.date | 2021-11-25T13:36:34.000 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-26T12:31:31Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-26T12:31:31Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008-01-01T00:00:00-08:00 | |
| dc.identifier | yls_sela/59 | |
| dc.identifier.contextkey | 3195486 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/17557 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Suppose the City of Buenos Airesplans to build a highway to allow us to travel faster within this congested metropolis. For this to be possible, the government must expropriate and knock down a number of houses. As we all know, eminent domain means that, in pursuit of a public purpose, government can take people’s property against their will. To use the terminology coined by Calabresi y Melamed,[1] in the face of eminent domain, the right to property of the owners of these houses is not protected by a property rule but by a liability rule: government has the power to buy this right compulsively in exchange for compensation. [1] See “Property Rules, Liability Rules and Inalienability. A View of the Cathedral,” 85 Harv. L. Rev. 1089-1128 (1972). | |
| dc.subject | : property rights | |
| dc.subject | body as property | |
| dc.subject | equivalence principle | |
| dc.subject | court awarded damages | |
| dc.subject | compensation for harms | |
| dc.subject | moral damages | |
| dc.subject | access/compensation trade off | |
| dc.subject | valuation of bodily injury | |
| dc.title | The Body as Property and the Problem of Damages | |
| dc.source.journaltitle | SELA (Seminario en Latinoamérica de Teoría Constitucional y Política) Papers | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-26T12:31:31Z | |
| dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yls_sela/59 | |
| dc.identifier.legacyfulltext | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1058&context=yls_sela&unstamped=1 |
