Dear Colleagues:

Many of you will be interested in reading Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Unjust Enrichment which has recently been published by OUP and is edited by Robert Chambers, Charles Mitchell and James Penner (and contains contributions by many RDG & ODG regulars). From the website:

This volume takes stock of the rapid changes to the law of unjust enrichment over the last decade. It offers a set of original contributions from leading private law theorists examining the philosophical foundations of the law. The essays consider the central questions raised by demarcating unjust enrichment as a separate area of private law - including how its normative foundations relate to those of other areas of private law, how the concept of enrichment relates to property theory, how the remedy of restitution relates to principles of corrective justice and what role mental elements should play in shaping the law.

1. Robert Chambers, Charles Mitchell, and James Penner: Introduction
Part I: Normative Foundations
2. Ernest Weinrib: Correctively Unjust Enrichment
3. Hanoch Dagan: Restitution's Realism
4. Dennis Klimchuk: The Normative Foundations of Unjust Enrichment
5. Mitchell McInnes: Resisting Temptations to Justice
6. Kit Barker: The Nature of Responsibility for Gain
Part II: Enrichment & Property
7. Steve Smith: Torts and Unjust Enrichment, Damages and Restitution: Some Similarities
8. James Edelman: The Concept of Enrichment
9. Robert Chambers: Two Ways of Being Enriched
Part III: Remedies
10. Lionel Smith: Philosophical Foundations of Proprietary Remedies
11. James Penner: Value, Property, and Unjust Enrichment
12. Charlie Webb: Property, Restitution, and Unjust Enrichment
Part IV: Reasons for Restitution
13. Aruna Nair: Mistakes of Law and Legal Reasoning
14. Charles Mitchell and Peter Oliver: Unjust Enrichment in Public and Private Law
15. Prince Saprai: Unconscionable Enrichment?

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Jason Neyers
Associate Professor of Law & 
Cassels Brock LLP Faculty Fellow in Contract Law
Faculty of Law
University of Western Ontario
N6A 3K7
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