Rethinking the Reasonable Person: An Egalitarian Reconstruction of the Objective Standard

The 'reasonable person' is used to assess the acceptability of behavior in many areas of the law including criminal law and accident law. However the reasonable person has also attracted substantial criticism from egalitarian critics and feminists insofar as it presupposes contested notions of 'normal' behaviour and may discriminate against certain classes of defendant. Rethinking the Reasonable Person systematically investigates whether there are deeper foundations to these criticisms and discusses how the legal standard might be reconstructed in a more egalitarian way.


Author: Mayo Moran
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/11/2003
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.51lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780199247820

About the Author

Mayo Moran is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. She recently completed an appointment as Associate Dean.

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