Consentability

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-107-16491-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Problems regarding the nature of consent are at the heart of many of today's most pressing issues. For example, the #MeToo movement has underscored the need to move beyond viewing consent as a simple matter of yes or no. Consent is complex because humans and their relationships are complicated. Humans, as a result of cognitive limitations and emotional and physical vulnerabilities, are susceptible to manipulation and mistakes. Given the potential for regret, are there some things to which one should not be permitted to consent? The consentability quandary becomes more urgent with technological advances. Should we allow body hacking? Cryonics? Consumer travel to Mars? Assisted suicide? In Consentability: Consent and Its Limits, Nancy S. Kim proposes a bold, original framework for evaluating consentability, which considers the complexities surrounding consent.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kim, Nancy S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. The Contours of Consent: 1. What does it mean to consent? 2. The hard cases; Part II. Consentability and Contractability: 3. A consentability framework; 4. Consent and contracts; Part III. The Regret Principle and the Opportunism Corollary: Application: 5. Improving the conditions of consent; 6. Reducing opportunism; 7. Revisiting the hard cases – some final thoughts; Conclusion; List of cases; List of statutes; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Kim, Nancy S.
Nancy S. Kim is Professor of Law at California Western School of Law and a Visiting Professor at the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the author of numerous articles, essays and two books, Wrap Contracts: Foundations and Ramifications (2013) and The Fundamentals of Contract Law and Clauses: A Practical Approach (2016).