Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1985
ISSN
0024-9041
Publisher
McGill University
Language
en-US
Abstract
This note suggests a model to unify, in a simple information-based framework, the notion of negligence and the various notions of causation. In effect, the model demonstrates that negligence, probabilistic cause and cause-in-fact represent an identical concept applied to different information sets. This note uses the unified framework to develop a simple algorithm for the practical application of the principles of causation in the law of negligence.
Recommended Citation
Stephen G. Marks,
Negligence, Causation and Information
,
in
31
McGill Law Journal
128
(1985).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/2825
