There are reasons both to be uncomfortable with an entirely fragmented vision of private law and skeptical of attempts to unify it under any contemporary theory. Consider the idea of corrective justice, which has been largely responsible for the revival of interest in moral theories of tort law. The idea seems to fit well with the system of fault and compensation that
one finds in tort law and may even be expanded or modified to include strict liability torts.109 By focusing on the bilateral relationship between plaintiffs and defendants, particularly the way that damages are paid from wrongdoers to victims, it provides a compelling criticism of economic theories of tort law.110 Strikingly, the very features of tort law that motivate the corrective justice critique of economic theories are also present in contract law.111 Contract law also involves a bilateral relationship between plaintiffs and defendants.112 Like tortfeasors, contract breachers pay damages to those
whose legal rights they have violated.113 It seems natural that contract law and tort law are somehow normatively related to one another.