Intangible Damages in American Tort Law: A Roadmap

23 Pages Posted: 6 Feb 2016

Date Written: February 4, 2016

Abstract

This paper is meant to provide a succinct roadmap to the many pathways taken in providing recovery for intangible harm in tort. The paper was initially prepared for a comparative law conference, and in that setting, I assumed a lack of close familiarity with the historical origins and surprisingly broad expanse of recovery for intangible harm in American tort law. While succinctly presented, the present revised treatment, for those conversant with the US system, is meant to be comprehensive, addressing defamation and privacy, no-fault and tort reform, as well as the more conventional common law topics of intangible damages in cases of intentional and accidental harm.

Keywords: torts, damages

JEL Classification: K13

Suggested Citation

Rabin, Robert L., Intangible Damages in American Tort Law: A Roadmap (February 4, 2016). Stanford Public Law Working Paper No. 2727885, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2727885 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2727885

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