Public Lecture by Nick McBride
On Tuesday, March 20, the Tort Law Research Group hosted its second public lecture of the 2011-12 academic year. Nick McBride, Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge, presented a lecture entitled, “Thinking about Tort Law: Where do we go from here?"
In his lecture, McBride reviewed the development of the rights-based theory of tort law in North America and the UK, including corrective justice and civil recourse theories. He then posed four questions for tort lawyers to answer in their next phase of scholarship. First, what is tort law? Second, what basic rights should tort law give us against other people? Third, what remedies should be made available to someone whose basic rights have been violated by someone else? And fourth, how far does tort law fail to live up to the ideals we have for it?
McBride was formerly a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and has been at Cambridge since 1997. He is the author, with Roderick Bagshaw, of a textbook on Tort Law, now in its 4th edition. He is also the author of the best-selling introduction to studying law,Letters to a Law Student.
The Tort Law Research Group is grateful to Cohen Highley LLP for sponsoring its public lectures in 2011-2012.
Click here to download an MP3 of the lecture.
