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The goals of private law /

This collection contributes to a fundamentally important set of debates about the nature of private law. The essays consider whether private law should be seen as having goals and, if so, whether those goals are particular to private as opposed to public law. They consider the legitimacy of the purs...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations National University of Singapore
Otros Autores: Robertson, Andrew, 1966-, Tang, Hang Wu
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.