The goals of private law / edited by Andrew Robertson and Tang Hang Wu.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations National University of Singapore
Other Authors: Robertson, Andrew, 1966-, Tang, Hang Wu
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2009.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : goals, rights and obligations / Andrew Robertson
  • PART I : PRIVATE LAW AND PUBLIC GOALS: The mutually constitutive nature of public and private law / Mayo Moran
  • What's private about private law? / William Lucy
  • PART II : RIGHTS AND GOALS: 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
  • PART III : THE ROLE OF GOALS IN PRIVATE LAW: 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
  • PART IV : COMMUNITY WELFARE GOALS IN PRIVATE LAW DOCTRINES: 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
  • - PART V : THE GOALS OF UNJUST ENRICHMENT LAW: 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.