Dear Colleagues:

 

Congratulations go out to James Goudkamp & Donal Nolan on the publication of their edited collection Scholars of Tort Law (Hart, 2019). A 20% discount is available if the directions on the attached order form are followed.

 

Here is the description:

 

The publication of Scholars of Tort Law marks the beginning of a long overdue rebalancing of private law scholarship. Instead of concentrating on judicial decisions and academic commentary only for what that commentary says about judicial decisions, the book explores the contributions of scholars of tort law in their own right. The work of a selection of leading scholars of tort law from across the common law world, ranging from Thomas Cooley (1824–1898) to Patrick Atiyah (1931–2018), is addressed by eminent current scholars in the field. The focus of the contributions is on the nature of the work produced by each of the scholars in question, important influences on their work, and the influence which that work in turn had on thinking about tort law. The process of subjecting tort law scholarship to sustained analysis provides new insights into the intellectual development of tort law and reveals the important role played by scholars in that development. By focusing on the work of influential tort scholars, the book serves to emphasise the importance of legal scholarship to the development of the common law more generally.

 

And here is the Table of Contents:

 

1. Pioneers, Consolidators and Iconoclasts: The Story

of Tort Scholarship ..................................................................................1

James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan

2. Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1824–1898) and Oliver Wendell Holmes

(1841–1935): The Arc of American Tort Theory .....................................43

John CP Goldberg and Benjamin C Zipursky

3. Professor Sir Frederick Pollock (1845–1937): Jurist as Mayfly ..................75

Robert Stevens

4. Professor Sir John Salmond (1862–1924): An Englishman Abroad ......... 103

Mark Lunney

5. Professor Francis Hermann Bohlen (1868–1942) ................................... 133

Michael D Green

6. Professor Sir Percy Winfield (1878–1953) ............................................... 165

Donal Nolan

7. Professor Leon Green (1888–1979): Word Magic and the

Regenerative Power of Law .................................................................. 203

Jenny Steele

8. Professor William Lloyd Prosser (1898–1972) ........................................ 229

Christopher J Robinette

9. Professor Fleming James Jr (1904–1981) ............................................... 259

Guido Calabresi

10. Professor John G Fleming (1919–1997): ‘A Sense of Fluidity’ ................. 289

Paul Mitchell

11. Professor Patrick Atiyah (1931–2018) .................................................... 309

James Goudkamp

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12. Mr Tony Weir (1936–2011) .................................................................. 337

Paula Giliker

13. Law, Fact and Process in Common Law Tort Scholarship ..................... 359

Peter Cane

 

Happy Reading,

 

 

 

Jason Neyers
Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
Western University
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