| Description |
x, 516 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Goals, Rights and Obligations / Andrew Robertson -- Pt. I. Private Law and Public Goals. 2. The Mutually Constitutive Nature of Public and Private Law / Mayo Moran -- 3 What's Private About Private Law? / William Lucy -- Pt. II. Rights and Goals. 4. The Role of Duty of Care in a Rights-Based Theory of Negligence Law / Stephen Perry -- 5. The Rights of Private Law / Stephen A. Smith -- 6. The Conflict of Rights / Robert Stevens -- 7. Causation and the Goals of Tort Lawy / Donal Nolan -- Pt. III. The Role of Goals in Private Law. 8. Looking Outward or Looking Inward? Obligations Scholarship in the Early 21st Century / Steve Hedley -- 9. Treating Like Cases Alike: Principle and Classification in Private Law / Charlie Webb -- 10. Tort Law, Concepts and What Really Matters / Roderick Bagshaw -- 11. Constraints on Policy-Based Reasoning in Private Law / Andrew Robertson -- Pt. IV. Community Welfare Goals in Private Law Doctrines. 12. Negligent Investigation: Tort Law as Police Ombudsman / Erika Chamberlain -- 13. Deterrence in Private Law / Yock Lin Tan -- 14. Justifying Fiduciary Allowances / Matthew Harding -- 15. Gain-Based Remedies and the Place of Deterrence in the Law of Fiduciary Obligations / Anthony Duggan -- 16. The Normative Foundations of Restitution for Wrongs: Justifying Gain-based Relief for Nuisance / Craig Rotherham -- Pt. V. The Goals of Unjust Enrichment Law. 17. Just and unjust enrichments / Hanoch Dagan -- 18. The rules of obligations / Emily Sherwin -- 19. Storytelling in the law of unjust enrichment / Tang Hang Wu -- 20. Demolishing the pyramid - the presence of basis and risk-takng in the law of unjust enrichment / Tang Hang Wu |
| Notes |
"This book originated in the Fourth Biennial Conference ... held at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in July 2008 |
| Subject |
Civil law -- Philosophy.
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| Author |
Robertson, Andrew, 1966-
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Tang, Hang Wu.
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| ISBN |
9781841139098 hardback |
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1841139092 hardback |
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