Gregory C. Keating is a professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of
Southern California. He teaches torts, legal ethics, and seminars in legal and political
philosophy. He is an editor of a torts casebook and writes on torts, professional
responsibility and legal theory. He has published articles on the morality of reasonable
risk imposition and the law of negligence more generally; on the history of and moral
justification for strict liability in tort; on why justice requires that we take
inefficiently great precaution against significant risks of death and devastating injury;
and on issues of professional responsibility, with particular attention to the problems
that confront practicing lawyers. Some of his recent titles include “Putting Duty in its
Place, with Dilan A. Esper, (Loyola Law Review, 2008) (Symposium: Frontiers of Tort
Liability), “Pricelessness and Life: An Essay for Guido Calabresi” (Maryland Law Review,
2005) (Symposium: Calabresi’s Costs of Accidents), and “Rawlsian Fairness and Regime
Choice in the Law of Accidents” (Symposium: “Rawls and the Law,” Fordham Law Review,
2004).
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