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Valentin Jeutner sets out to understand the reasonable person’s ‘double life’ as an ‘unpretentious but powerful legal standard and as the common law’s most legendary but also most controversial character’–one that ‘features in virtually all areas of law’, populating areas such as contracts, torts, criminal law and administrative law. Jeutner explains at the outset that the standard’s most important feature is that it demands attention to ‘the perspective of another’: whatever particular traits it embodies, ‘the reasonable person figure is not you’. After a short introduction that previews the argument and collects some of the faux-jocular character sketches that judges and lawyers have composed over time, the book begins a historical review of some of the figure’s precursors and then considers its spread and various instantiations.
DOI: 10.1080/2049677X.2025.2500222
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