Geoff, I would put near the top of my list Wesley Hohfeld’s two-part article, “Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning,” 23 & 26 Yale L.J. 16 & 710 (1913 & 1917). It was republished with a preface
by Walter Wheeler Cook and is freely available on the Internet Archive in its original version:
http://www.archive.org/details/fundamentallegal00hohfuoft. More than a century later, we are still discovering how insightful Hohfeld was about the terms used to describe the component
parts of obligations (rights, duties, privileges, etc.).
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From: Geoff McLay <geoff.mclay@vuw.ac.nz>
Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 7:16 PM
To: Jason W Neyers <jneyers@uwo.ca>
Cc: "obligations@uwo.ca" <obligations@uwo.ca>
Subject: Nominations for up to three classic "obligations" articles that all good law postgrads should read
Dear Colleagues
Next New Zealand academic year ( March 2019) I am running an honours class based on the idea of reading each week a couple of a “classic” articles that all post grad students and academics should have read. I probably have about three
or four slots for private law/obligations writing and was wondering what people on the list might suggest as classics of the” obligations” school or private law more generally.
All suggestions gratefully received
Many thanks
Geoff
Geoff McLay
Professor of Law,
Victoria University of Wellington
PO Box 600 Wellington
New Zealand
www.geoffmclay.com