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Scott on Tort & Endocrine Disruption in a Canadian Aboriginal Community

By Lawrence Solum

Dayna Nadine Scott (York University - Osgoode Hall Law School) has posted Body Polluted: Questions of Scale, Gender and Remedy on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This paper offers a critique of tort remedies grounded in feminist theory of the body. It demonstrates how tort law is invested in a notion of an individuated legal subject, which fails to capture the critical interconnectedness of bodies in a social, political, historical, and colonial context. Taking the ?injury? of endocrine disruption in a Canadian aboriginal community as an example of a contemporary pollution harm, the analysis considers various torts on a conceptual level, and what they might offer the Aamjiwnaang First Nation in the way of remedies. In each case, what the tort can do depends on how the injury, and the scale at which the entity taken to have suffered the injury, is conceived.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on June 23, 2010 (boomark / email).