The goals of private law  [electronic resource] / 
edited by Andrew Robertson and Tang Hang Wu. 
 - Oxford ;  Portland, Or. :  Hart Pub.,  2009. 
 - x, 516 p. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA950034  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label> Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civil law--Philosophy--Congresses.<br/>Civil law--Congresses.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K600.A6  / C66 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>346.001