Table of Contents

1. Moral and Legal Responsibility 2. The Nature and Functions of Responsibility 3. Responsibility and Culpability 4. Responsibility and Causation 5. Responsibility and Personality 6. Grounds and Bounds of Responsibility 7. Realising Responsibility 8. Responsibility in Public Law 9. Thinking about Responsibility References Index

About the Author

For 20 years, Peter Cane taught law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Since 1997 he has been a Professor of Law in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University.

Reviews

…an impressive and comprehensive discussion of the treatment of responsibility in the law-a discussion that ranges across nearly every field of law, and across jurisdictions, supported by detailed references to cases and supplemented by knowledgeable summaries of commentary by lawyers, legal philosophers, and moral philosophers.
*Ethics*

Peter Cane has written an impressively wide-ranging and illuminating booka truly commendable piece of work. Cane's book deserves a large audience among legal, moral, and political philosophers.
*Philosophical Review*

…it offers a notably clear and robust formulation of a social approach towards responsibility… he has plenty of interesting and illuminating insights to offer…lawyers and philosphers alike will learn a great deal from this careful dissection of topics…
*Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol 26, No 3, pp 593-608*

This is a wide-ranging, highly sophisticated work which looks at concepts of responsibility in law across a range of areas.
*Adelaide Law Review*

'Responsibility in Law and Morality' is a challenging and valuable book. Although I have criticised Cane's account of responsibilty in this review, I do not wish to leave the reader with the impression that his book is anything but valuable and rewarding it is an illuminating study of responsibilty in law. It is my view that modern lawyers have a great deal to learn from its approach. Accordingly, apart from being essential reading for anyone interested in legal theory, the book has much to teach any lawyer with even the smallest interest in the justifications of legal liability.
*Melbourne University Law Review*