Colleagues will be greatly saddened to hear that Tony Weir died in
hospital last Tuesday. The acerbic brilliance of his writings on
tort law and private law generally (both common law and civilian)
has rarely been matched, and never surpassed. He was simply
incapable of writing anything uninteresting. Below my signature is
an incomplete list of his publications.
Nick McBride
Books
An Introduction to Tort Law, 2nd ed (Clarendon Law Series, 2006)
A Casebook on Tort, 10th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2004)
Economic Torts (Clarendon Press, 1997)
Articles
'Two great legislators' (2006) 21 Tulane European and Civil Law
Forum 35
'All or nothing?' (2003-4) 78 Tulane Law Review 511
'Human rights and damages' (2001) 40 Washburn Law Journal 413
'English tort law seen from abroad' in Rider (ed), Law at the
Centre: The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at Fifty (Kluwer,
1999)
'The staggering march of negligence' in Cane and Stapleton (eds),
The Law of Obligations: Essays in Honour of John Fleming (OUP, 1998)
'Recovery in tort for economic loss' (1997) 94 British Insurance Law
Association Journal 14
'Taking for granted - the ramifications of nemo dat' (1996) 49
Current Legal Problems 325
'Die Sprachen des europaischen Rechts. Eine skeptische Betrachtung'
[1995] Zeitschrift fur Europaisches Privatrecht 368
'Errare humanum est' in Birks (ed), The Frontiers of Liability,
Volume 2 (OUP, 1994)
'Contracts in Rome and England' (1992) 66 Tulane Law Review 1615
'Friendships in the law' (1992) 6-7 Tulane Civil Law Forum 61
'Governmental liability' [1989] Public Law 40
'A strike against the law?' (1986) 46 Maryland Law Review 133
'Shields and swords' (1983) 7 Trent Law Journal 1
(with Pierre Catala) 'Delict and torts: a study in parallel'
(1962-3) 37 Tulane Law Review 573 (Part I), (1963-4) 38 Tulane Law
Review 221 (Part II), (1963-4) 38 Tulane Law Review 663 (Part III),
(1964-5) 39 Tulane Law Review 701 (Part IV)
Casenotes
'Making it more likely vs making it happen' (2002) 61 Cambridge Law
Journal 519
'The unwanted child' (2002) 6 Edinburgh Law Review 244
'The maddening effect of consecutive torts' (2001) 60 Cambridge Law
Journal 237
'The unwanted child' (2000) 59 Cambridge Law Journal 238
'Down hill - all the way?' (1999) 58 Cambridge Law Journal 4
'Suicide in custody' (1998) 57 Cambridge Law Journal 241
'Clamping' (1996) 55 Cambridge Law Journal 423
'Swag for the injured burglar' (1996) 55 Cambridge Law Journal 182
'A damnosa hereditas?' (1995) 111 Law Quarterly Review 357
'Rylands v Fletcher reconsidered' (1994) 53 Cambridge Law Journal
216
'The case of the careless referee' (1993) 52 Cambridge Law Journal
376
'The polluter must pay - regardless' (1993) 52 Cambridge Law Journal
17
'Physician - kill thyself!' (1991) 50 Cambridge Law Journal 397
'Fixing the foundations' (1991) 50 Cambridge Law Journal 24
'Statutory auditor not liable to purchaser of shares' (1990) 49
Cambridge Law Journal 212
'Rebuilding defective building law' (1989) 48 Cambridge Law Journal
12
'P pays X for the physical damage due to D's negligence' [1989]
Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 1
'Liability for knowingly facilitating mass breaches of copyright'
(1988) 47 Cambridge Law Journal 348
'The answer to Anns?' (1985) 44 Cambridge Law Journal 26
'Wrongful life - nipped in the bud' (1982) 41 Cambridge Law Journal
225
'The wages of the dead' (1981) 40 Cambridge Law Journal 20
'The Pearson Commission Report' (1978) 37 Cambridge Law Journal 222
'Doing good by mistake - restitution and remedies' (1973) 32
Cambridge Law Journal 23
'Local authority vs critical ratepayer - a suit in defamation'
(1972) 30 Cambridge Law Journal 238
'Discrimination in private law' (1966) 24 Cambridge Law Journal 165
'Tort, contract and bailment' (1965) 23 Cambridge Law Journal 186
'Chaos or cosmos? Rookes, Stratford and the economic
torts' (1964) 22 Cambridge Law Journal 225
'Liability for syntax' (1963) 21 Cambridge Law Journal 216
Book reviews
Hoeflich, Roman and Civil Law and the Development of Anglo-American
Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century (1999) 3 Edinburgh Law
Review 398
Cane, Anatomy of Tort Law; and Atiyah, The Damages Lottery (1998) 57
Cambridge Law Journal 204
Cane, Tort Law and Economic Interests (1991) 50 Cambridge Law
Journal 551
Frier, A Casebook on the Roman Law of Delict (1990) 49 Cambridge Law
Journal 157
Fleming, The Law of Torts, 7th ed (1989) 48 Cambridge Law Journal
152
Birks (ed), New Perspectives in the Roman Law of Property: Essays
for Barry Nicholas (1989) 48 Cambridge Law Journal 510
Collins, The Law of Contract (1986) 45 Cambridge Law Journal 503
Hart and Honore, Causation in the Law, 2nd ed (1985) 44 Cambridge
Law Journal 477
Honore, The Quest for Security; and Von Hippel, Der Schutz des
Schwaecheren (1984) 43 Cambridge Law Journal 377
Cheifetz, Apportionment of Fault in Tort Law (1982) 14 Ottawa Law
Review 234
Stair, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland (1982) 41 Cambridge
Law Journal 183
Deutch, Unfair Contracts (1978) 37 Cambridge Law Journal 344
Waddams, Products Liability (1976) 35 Cambridge Law Journal 178
Carter-Ruck, Libel and Slander; and Rubinstein (ed), Wicked, Wicked
Libels (1973) 32 Cambridge Law Journal 150
Coote, Exception Clauses (1965) 23 Cambridge Law Journal 301
Translations
Bucher, England and the Continent: Distinguishing the Pecularities
of English Common Law of Contract (Dike Books, 2009)
Halperin, The French Civil Code (UCL, 2006)
Zweigert and Koetz, An Introduction to Comparative Law, 3rd ed (OUP,
1998)
Koetz and Flessner, European Contract Law, Vol I (Clarendon Press,
1998)
Wieacker and Zimmermann, A History of Private Law in Europe, with
Particular Reference to Germany (Clarendon Press, 1996)
Grossfeld, The Strengths and Weaknesses of Comparative Law (OUP,
1990)
Serick, Lipstein, and Riesenfeld, Securities in Movables in German
Law: An Outline (Kluwer, 1990)