When to Fill Responsibility Gaps: A Proposal

1 Crash synthesizes and builds on the sinking of the Herald discussed by Pettit 2007 and the Mount Erebus aircraft crash discussed by Collins 2019 in the related collective duty gap context. 2 I use a tanker here to parallel Crash.Wildlife and food issues commonly follow spills, like the Exxon Valdez and non-tanker-based Deepwater Horizon cases.So too do debates as to who, if anyone, is responsible for a spill.Himmelreich 2019:734 discusses Exxon Valdez as a case where corporate liability may need to fill gaps. 3This is a variant of 'killer robot' cases that proliferated post-Sparrow 2007.