Climate Change and the Tort Paradigm

Can notions of corrective justice or distributive justice inform discussions of global warming?  Is tort law helpful as a paradigm in which to resolve global warming concerns?  Professors Eric Posner (Chicago; picture left) and Cass Sunstein (Harvard; picture right) probe these questions and others in a brief, informative article, Global Warming and Social Justice, in the Cato Institute’s Regulation (Spring 2008).

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