IECL Lunchtime Seminar with Joanna Langille – Tort and Territory
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The IECL Lunchtime Seminar Series offers our Academic Visitors an opportunity to share their research, exchange ideas, and connect with colleagues on both substantive and methodological aspects of their work.
Each seminar usually lasts 30–45 minutes, with 20–30 minutes for the presentation followed by 10–15 minutes for Q&A. A light sandwich lunch will be provided.
Assoc Prof Joanna Langille
Tort and Territory
Abstract: Among the most enduring puzzles in private international law is what rule should govern choice of law in tort. When a tort dispute has factual connections to multiple political jurisdictions, how should we decide which state’s law can authoritatively govern the dispute? There is no doctrinal consensus on how to decide which state’s law is most authoritative, and so states continue to employ a variety of approaches. This paper brings tort law theory to bear on this problem, defending the classical territorial approach as most the consistent with the underlying justification for the exercise of state authority in tort law: securing the formal equality of persons.
