The goals of private law / edited by Andrew Robertson and Tang Hang Wu.
| Author/creator | Conference on the Law of Obligations |
| Other author | Robertson, Andrew, 1966- |
| Other author | Tang, Hang Wu. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., |
| Description | x, 516 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : goals rights and obligations / Andrew Robertson -- The mutually constitutive nature of public and private law / Mayo Moran -- What's private about private law? / William Lucy -- The role of duty of care in a rights-based theory of negligence law / Stephen Perry -- The rights of private law / Stephen A. Smith -- The conflict of rights / Robert Stevens -- Causation and the goals of tort law / Donal Nolan -- Looking outward or looking inward? Obligations scholarship in the early 21st century / Steve Hedley -- Treating like cases alike : principle and classification in private law / Charlie Webb -- Tort law, concepts and what really matters / Roderick Bagshaw -- Constraints on policy-based reasoning in private law / Andrew Robertson -- Negligent investigation : tort law as police ombudsman / Erika Chamberlain -- Deterrence in private law / Yock Lin Tan -- Justifying fiduciary allowances / Matthew Harding -- Gain-based remedies and the place of deterrence in the law of fiduciary obligations / Anthony Duggan -- The normative foundations of restitution for wrongs : justifying gain-based relief for nuisance / Craig Rotherham -- Just and unjust enrichments / Hanoch Dagan -- The rules of obligations / Emily Sherwin -- Storytelling in the law of unjust enrichment / Tang Hang Wu -- Demolishing the pyramid : the presence of basis and risk-taking in the law of unjust enrichment / Graham Virgo. |
| General note | "This book originated in the fourth biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations, which was held at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in July 2008."--Pre. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010286563 |
| ISBN | 9781841139098 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1841139092 (hbk.) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |