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

• Author: Conference on the Law of Obligations National University of Singapore)
• TeilnehmendeR: Robertson, Andrew, 1966-; Tang, Hang Wu.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: x, 516 p.
• Notes: "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.

Table of 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 cnetury / 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.