Richard W Wright

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Faculty Member

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I have a lifelong interest in basic moral, philosophical, legal and practical issues of individual responsibility, analyzed by combining philosophical, doctrinal and empirical study and analysis.
Address: Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Principled Adjudication: Tort Law and Beyond

Social Science Research Network, 1999

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Acts and Omissions as Positive and Negative Causes

Hart Publishing eBooks, Sep 12, 2014

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The Principles of Justice, in Symposium, Propter Honoris Respectum: John Finnis

Notre Dame Law Review, 2000

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Causation, Responsibility, Risk, Probability, Naked Statistics, and Proof: Pruning the Bramble Bush by Clarifying the Concepts

Iowa Law Review, 1988

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Actual Causation vs. Probabilistic Linkage: The Bane of Economic Analysis

The Journal of Legal Studies, Jun 1, 1985

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Liability for Mass Sexual Abuse

Social Science Research Network, 2018

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The Grounds and Extent of Legal Responsibility, in Symposium, What Do Compensatory Damages Compensate?

The San Diego law review, 2003

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Proving Facts: Belief versus Probability

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Justice and Reasonable Care in Negligence Law

The American journal of jurisprudence, 2002

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Once More Into the Bramble Bush: Duty, Causal Contribution, and the Extent of Legal Responsibility, in Symposium, The John W. Wade Conference on the Third Restatement of Torts

Vanderbilt Law Review, Apr 1, 2001

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The Efficiency Theory of Causation and Responsibility: Unscientific Formalism and False Semantics, in Symposium, Causation in the Law of Torts

Chicago-Kent} Law Review, 1987

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The Standards of Care in Negligence Law

Oxford University Press eBooks, Jul 31, 1997

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Proving Causation: Probability Versus Belief

Hart Publishing eBooks, Sep 16, 2014

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The Vitality of Joint and Several Liability: Brief Amici Curiae of American Law Professors in Support of Respondents

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discussed in Federico Stella, The Vitality of the Covering Law Model: Considerations on Wright and Mackie

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The Constitution as Positive Law

Loyola of Los Angeles law review, 1972

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The Logic and Fairness of Joint and Several Liability, in Symposium, Comparative Negligence

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Private Nuisance Law: A Window on Substantive Justice

Hart Publishing eBooks, Sep 16, 2014

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Right, Justice, and Tort Law

Oxford University Press eBooks, Jul 31, 1997

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Allocating Liability Among Multiple Responsible Causes: A Principled Defense of Joint and Several Liability for Actual Harm and Risk Exposure

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Principled Adjudication: Tort Law and Beyond

Social Science Research Network, 1999

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Acts and Omissions as Positive and Negative Causes

Hart Publishing eBooks, Sep 12, 2014

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The Principles of Justice, in Symposium, Propter Honoris Respectum: John Finnis

Notre Dame Law Review, 2000

Download

Causation, Responsibility, Risk, Probability, Naked Statistics, and Proof: Pruning the Bramble Bush by Clarifying the Concepts

Iowa Law Review, 1988

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Actual Causation vs. Probabilistic Linkage: The Bane of Economic Analysis

The Journal of Legal Studies, Jun 1, 1985

Download

Liability for Mass Sexual Abuse

Social Science Research Network, 2018

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The Grounds and Extent of Legal Responsibility, in Symposium, What Do Compensatory Damages Compensate?

The San Diego law review, 2003

Download

Proving Facts: Belief versus Probability

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Justice and Reasonable Care in Negligence Law

The American journal of jurisprudence, 2002

Download

Once More Into the Bramble Bush: Duty, Causal Contribution, and the Extent of Legal Responsibility, in Symposium, The John W. Wade Conference on the Third Restatement of Torts

Vanderbilt Law Review, Apr 1, 2001

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The Efficiency Theory of Causation and Responsibility: Unscientific Formalism and False Semantics, in Symposium, Causation in the Law of Torts

Chicago-Kent} Law Review, 1987

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The Standards of Care in Negligence Law

Oxford University Press eBooks, Jul 31, 1997

Download

Proving Causation: Probability Versus Belief

Hart Publishing eBooks, Sep 16, 2014

Download

The Vitality of Joint and Several Liability: Brief Amici Curiae of American Law Professors in Support of Respondents

Download

discussed in Federico Stella, The Vitality of the Covering Law Model: Considerations on Wright and Mackie

Download

The Constitution as Positive Law

Loyola of Los Angeles law review, 1972

Download

The Logic and Fairness of Joint and Several Liability, in Symposium, Comparative Negligence

Download

Private Nuisance Law: A Window on Substantive Justice

Hart Publishing eBooks, Sep 16, 2014

Download

Right, Justice, and Tort Law

Oxford University Press eBooks, Jul 31, 1997

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Allocating Liability Among Multiple Responsible Causes: A Principled Defense of Joint and Several Liability for Actual Harm and Risk Exposure

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Dialogues on Causation with Stapleton

This paper, forthcoming in an Oxford University Press festschrift in honour of Jane Stapleton, re... more This paper, forthcoming in an Oxford University Press festschrift in honour of Jane Stapleton, retraces my discussions and debates with her over several decades on the concept of causation and its employment in determinations of legal responsibility. Until recently, she agreed with me on the need (i) to distinguish causation in its core sense of factual, scientific causation from the further issues involved in the determination of legal responsibility and (ii) to employ the more comprehensive, philosophically based NESS (necessary for the sufficiency of a sufficient set) analysis of causation to handle properly cases that are not properly resolved by the traditional but-for test. However, an incomplete understanding of the NESS analysis, combined with her aversion to philosophical analysis and her desire to employ concepts with which judges are familiar, have led her to propose “more forensically useful” modified-but-for versions of the NESS analysis, all of which are deficient. Nevertheless, her papers have required me to further clarify and elaborate the NESS analysis and have contributed to its general acceptance by academics and increasing acceptance and use by the courts, including the highest courts in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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