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Print Price: $108.95

Format:
Hardback
256 pp.
156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780198851356

Publication date:
December 2020

Imprint: OUP UK


Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory: Volume I

Edited by Paul B. Miller and John Oberdiek

Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory is a biennial forum for some of the best new work in private law theory by scholars from around the world. The essays range widely over issues in general private law theory as well as specific fields, including the theoretical analysis of tort law, property law, contract law, fiduciary law, trust law, remedies and restitution, and the law of equity. OSPLT will be essential reading for academic lawyers, philosophers, political scientists, economists, and historians who wish to keep up with the latest developments in the flourishing field of private law theory.

Readership : Academic lawyers, philosophers, political scientists, economists, and legal historians.

About the Editors
List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
1. Charlie Webb: Duties and Damages
2. Larissa Katz: When it is Wrong to Hold On: A Principle of Non-Derogation
3. Kenneth W Simons: The Hegemony of the Reasonable Person in Anglo-American Tort Law
4. Katrina M Wyman: Property as Intangible Property
5. Ben McFarlane and Andreas Televantos: Third Party Effects in Private Law: Form and Function
6. Leslie Kendrick: Culpability and Negligence
7. Shyamkrishna Balganesh: Intellectual Property Law and Redressive Autonomy
8. Mindy Chen-Wishart and Victoria Dixon: Good Faith in English Contract Law: A Humble '3 by 4' Approach

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Paul B. Miller is Professor of Law, Associate Dean of International and Graduate Programs, and Director of the Program on Private Law at Notre Dame Law School.

John Oberdiek is Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School and Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Law and Philosophy.

Making Sense - Margot Northey
Civil Wrongs and Justice in Private Law - Edited by Paul B. Miller and John Oberdiek
Rights, Wrongs, and Injustices - Stephen A. Smith
Reconstructing American Legal Realism & Rethinking Private Law Theory - Hanoch Dagan

Special Features

  • Coverage of the latest developments in private law theory written and edited by leaders in the field.
  • Contributors write in a wide range of subfields of private law including the theoretical analysis of tort law, property law, and contract law.
  • Essential reading for academic lawyers, philosophers, political scientists, economists, and legal historians.
  • All papers newly written and published here for the first time.