Publication Date
2011
Journal
Florida State University Law Review
Abstract
This short article, which was prepared for a conference on civil recourse theory at Florida State University School of Law, asks whether Blackstone’s rejection of maintenance is inconsistent with the theoretical commitments of modern civil recourse theory. Blackstone strongly believed that third parties should not help victims of wrongdoing discover that they have been wronged, this article asks whether modern civil recourse theory is committed to the position (now in retreat throughout common law nations) that third parties who help strangers’ lawsuits are acting against the public interest (or, as Blackstone put it, are “pests of society . . . disturbing their neighbor’s repose”).
Volume
39
First Page
209
Publisher
Florida State University College of Law
Keywords
Civil Recourse Theory, The Blackstone Group, court, maintenance
Disciplines
Law
Recommended Citation
Anthony J. Sebok,
What is Wrong About Wrongdoing,
39
Fla. St. U. L. Rev.
209
(2011).
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/faculty-articles/392
