Dear Colleagues:
Many of you will be interested in the most recent edition of the
University of Toronto Law Journal which is a special issue entitled:
Understanding Law on Its Own Terms: Essays on the Occasion of
Ernest Weinrib's Killam Prize. From the description:
In 2009, the
internationally leading scholar of private law and Canada's
pre-eminent legal theorist, Ernest Weinrib, was awarded the
Killam Prize in the social sciences, the country's highest
honour for scholarly career achievement. On the occasion of the
prize, Weinrib presented a public lecture on 'Private Law and
Public Right,' developing a new set of ideas. In this special
issue, Weinrib's lecture is published together with pieces by
former students of his who have made
important contributions to private law theory.
The papers include:
Editor's Note
Arthur
Ripstein
Ernie's Three Worlds
Bruce
Chapman
Private Law and Public Right
Ernest
J. Weinrib
Formalism in Music and Law
Allan
Beever
The Idea of Consideration
Peter
Benson
Private Law and Kantian Right
Alan
Brudner
Legal Positivism as an Idea About Morality
Martin
Stone
Happy Reading,
--
Jason Neyers
Associate Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
University of Western Ontario
N6A 3K7
(519) 661-2111 x. 88435