Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Winter 2004
ISSN
0276-3583
Publisher
Boston College Law School
Language
en-US
Abstract
These remarks, prepared for the Boston College Third World Law Journal Reparations Symposium, compare the goals and viability of reparations claims as tort suits. I contrast two approaches observed in the claims: a "doing justice" model, which involves seeking compensation in important cases of uncorrected uncompensated injustice, and a "social welfare" model that seeks to change the distribution of wealth. Claims under the first category are far more consistent with tort doctrine and likely to meet their goals than social welfare-based claims.
Recommended Citation
Keith N. Hylton,
A Framework for Reparations Claims
,
in
24
Boston College Third World Law Journal
31
(2004).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/660
Working paper available on SSRN
Comments
Updated with published version of paper on 9/23/22
Working paper available on SSRN