Dear Colleagues:

 

Congratulations go out to Ernest Weinrib on the publication of his newest work, Reciprocal Freedom: Private Law and Public Right with OUP: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/reciprical-freedom-9780198754183?lang=de&cc=es#.  Attached to this email you will find two files. The first is the preface to the book which will give you a sense of the immense scope of the work and the topics covered. The second is a discount order form from OUP which offers ODGers a 30% discount.

 

Here is the short description:

 

Reciprocal Freedom: Private Law and Public Right elucidates the relationship between private law and the state, presenting reciprocal freedom as the normative idea underlying a legal order in which private law occupies a distinctive place. Weinrib develops a set of interconnected conceptions of private law, corrective justice, rights, ownership, the role of legal institutions, distributive justice, the relationship of constitutional rights to private law, and the rule of law.

The book is explicitly Kantian in inspiration; it presents a non-instrumental account of law that is geared to the juridical character of the modern liberal state. Combining legal and philosophical analysis, it offers a sequenced and legally informed argument for understanding law as necessary to our co-existence as free beings.

Happy Reading,

 

Jason Neyers
Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
Western University
Law Building Rm 26
e. jneyers@uwo.ca
t. 519.661.2111 (x88435)