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Skulls, Chances, and Cinema Fires: An Adjudicatory Theory of Legal Causation

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[By Rohan Karan Mehta, Fourth Year B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) student at NLSIU, Bengaluru] Introduction From Hart to Kant, from Calabresi to Bertrand Russel, causation is an inquiry that cuts across disciplines. Given its pervasive nature, my scope in this essay is limited to the adjudication of causation in criminal and tort law. To elaborate, I propose…