Revolution and evolution in private law /

The development of private law across the common law world is typically portrayed as a series of incremental steps, each one delivered as a result of judges dealing with marginally different factual circumstances presented to them for determination. This is said to be the common law method. Accordin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Worthington, Sarah (Editor ), Robertson, Andrew, 1966- (Editor ), Virgo, Graham (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; London : Portland, OR : Hart Publishing, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ; Hart Publishing, 2018.
Temas:
Civil law.
Common law.
Comparative law.
Civil law > Great Britain.
Civil law > Australia.
Droit comparé.
Torts > Delicts.
Restitution.
Equity & trusts.
Contract law.
LAW > Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Civil law
Common law
Comparative law
Australia
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • FOUNDATIONS
  • 1. Revolution and Evolution in Private Law
  • Sarah Worthington
  • 2. Revolutions in Private Law?
  • David Ibbetson
  • 3. Private Law's Revolutionaries: Authors, Codifiers and Merchants?
  • Hector L MacQueen
  • 4. Paradigms Lost or Paradigms Regained? Legal Revolutions and the Path of the Law
  • TT Arvind
  • DOCTRINES
  • 5. Risk Revolutions in Private Law
  • Jenny Steele
  • 6. The Unacknowledged Revolution in Liability for Negligence
  • Steve Hedley
  • 7. A Revolution in Vicarious Liability: Lister, the Catholic Child Welfare Society Case and Beyond
  • Paula Giliker
  • 8. Revolutions in Contractual Interpretation: A Historical Perspective
  • Joanna McCunn
  • 9. Revolutions and Counterrevolutions in Equitable Estoppel
  • Andrew Robertson
  • 10. Reflections on the Restitution Revolution
  • 1. England and Wales
  • Amy Goymour
  • 2. Australia
  • Elise Bant
  • 3. Canada
  • Mitchell McInnes
  • 4. South Africa
  • Helen Scott
  • 5. A Judicial Perspective
  • Sir Terence Etherton MR
  • 11. Revolutions in Personal Property: Redrawing the Common Law's Conceptual Map
  • Sarah Worthington
  • GENERAL ISSUES
  • 12. Modern Equity: Revolution or Renewal from Within?
  • Pauline Ridge
  • 13. Concurrent Liability: A Spluttering Revolution
  • Paul S Davies
  • 14. The Illegality Revolution
  • Graham Virgo
  • 15. The Revolutionary Trajectory of EU Contract Law towards Post-national Law
  • Hugh Collins

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