Dear Colleagues:

Congratulations to Andrew Robertson and Donal Nolan on the publication of Rights and Private Law.  The book is a suburb collection of essays (save one dodgy one by some unknown Canadian, a Mr. Nevers I think) that critically examines the move in private law scholarship which has come to be known as 'rights' or 'rights-based' analysis.  The excellent introduction is available as a free of charge download at: http://www.hartpub.co.uk/pdf/samples/9781849461429sample.pdf.

 

Hart Publishing has graciously offered all ODGers a 20% discount if the instructions on the attached flyer are followed.

 

The list of contributors is as follows:

 

1. Rights and Private Law Donal Nolan and Andrew Robertson

2. Rights in Private Law Peter Cane

3. Our Most Fundamental Rights Allan Beever

4. Social Purposes, Fundamental Rights and the Judicial Development of Private Law François du Bois

5. Rights and Other Things Robert Stevens

6. Beyond ‘Right’ and ‘Duty’: Lundstedt’s Theory of Obligations TT Arvind

7. Of Rights Superstructural, Inchoate and Triangular: The Role of Rights in Blackstone’s Commentaries Helge Dedek

8. Rule-Based Rights and Court-Ordered Rights Stephen A Smith

9. Rights and Responsibility in the Law of Torts John CP Goldberg and Benjamin C Zipursky

10. Damages and Rights Andrew Burrows

11. Explaining the Inexplicable? Four Manifestations of Abuse of Rights in English Law JW Neyers

12. Rights and the Basis of Tort Law Nicholas J McBride

13. Is the Role of Tort to Repair Wrongful Losses? Gregory C Keating

14. The Edges of Tort Law’s Rights Roderick Bagshaw

15. Rights, Pluralism and the Duty of Care Andrew Robertson

16. ‘A Tort Against Land’: Private Nuisance as a Property Tort Donal Nolan

17. Private Nuisance Law: A Window on Substantive Justice Richard W Wright

18. Rights and Wrongs: An Introduction to the Wrongful Interference Actions Sarah Green

19. Misfeasance in a Public Office: A Justifiable Anomaly within the Rights-Based Approach? Erika Chamberlain

20. Unjust Enrichment, Rights and Value Ben McFarlane

21. Rights and Value in Rescission: Some Implications for Unjust Enrichment Elise Bant

 

Happy Reading,