Relating to Responsibility

John Gardner is Professor of Jurisprudence and Fellow of University College,Oxford. John Gardner is Professor of Jurisprudence and Fellow of University College, Oxford.

• Responsibility and self-control, Michael Smith; the capacity to have done otherwise - an agent-centred view, Philip Pettit; private law and private narratives, Arthur Ripstein; Honore on responsibility for outcomes, Stephen R. Perry; responsibility and fault - a relational and functional approach to responsibility, Peter Cane; obligations and outcomes in the law of torts, John Gardner; unpacking "causation", Jane Stapleton; private law - between visionaries and bricoleurs, William Lucy; appreciations and responses, Tony Honore.

The contributors' essays represent, in my view, a catalogue of one of the best examinations 'by committee' on an aspect of the work of a single scholar. The review essays are splendidly written, intellectually engaging with absolutely no punches pulled. All of them however, demonstrate a rare combination of humility and rigor in their assessment of his work showing a great deal of respect for his exceptional passion for the most demanding subject, as so many others have done before. Marc-Georges Pufong, Valdosta State University The Law and Politics Book Review July 2002