The Role of Intention in Torts

How intentional does an action have to be to qualify as a tort? Professor Greg Dickinson describes a spectrum of intentionality that is used to determine whether a harm was a tort and, if it was, what type of tort. Battery and assault clearly involve intention, but recklessness and negligence are not as deliberate.

Gregory M. Dickinson  is an Assistant Professor of Law at St. Thomas University College of Law.

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