Challenging the «cause-in-fact» / «cause-in-law» dichotomy
This article seeks, on one hand, to discuss the relevance of the fact/law distinction to the causal inquiry in law and, on the other hand, to discuss how can be sustained the fact causality/legal causality distinction and if it is necessary to give greater importance to one or another of these elements.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1. Introduction. Framing the problem
- 2. Recapturing thequaestio facti/quaestio iurisdistinction?
- 3. Meaning and extent of the «cause-in-fact» / «cause-in-law» distinction
- 3.1. Civil Law countries
- 3.2. Common Law countries
- 4. Holistic view of causality/deepening normativity?
- 4.1. Reviewing and suggesting a few steps further
- 4.2. Not transposing the traditional view and solution for thequaestio facti/quaestio iurisdistinction into the realm of causality
- 4.2.1. The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy
- 4.2.2. The nonsense of the traditional fact/law dichotomy
- 4.2.3. Some gains for causality
- 4.3. Seeing factual causation not (only) as a factual question
- 4.4. Accounting all judgments about causality as normative
- 5. Conclusions
- 6. Reference
- 7. Acknowledgement
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