The case against hugs

In my many talks to law students on tort law, I often raise the question, “Why don’t we just give hugs? Why is it that society has decided to compensate wrongfully injured victims with money?”No better example exists than the violent ouster of Dr. David Dao from an overbooked United flight that captured headlines for weeks in April. How many “I’m sorries” have …

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