Document Type
Article
Publication Date
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 different reparations claims in terms of their goals and viability as tort suits. I contrast two approaches observed in the claims: a "doing justice" model, which involves seeking compensation in important cases of uncorrected or 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 the social welfare-based claims.
Recommended Citation
Keith Hylton,
A Framework for Reparations Claims,
23
Boston College Third World Law Journal
31
(2004).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/660
SSRN URL
https://ssrn.com/abstract=392080
Comments
Boston University School of Law Working Paper Series, Law and Economics Working Paper No. 03-05