From: Eoin O'Dell <ODELLE@tcd.ie>
To: Obligations list <obligations@uwo.ca>
Date: 18/05/2023 20:11:44 UTC
Subject: Re: suggestions for my reading course on “private law theory”
Dear all,

Dare I add Lon L. Fuller & William R. Perdue, Jr. "The Reliance Interest in Contract Damages" 46(1) Yale Law Journal 52 (1936) (Part 1) and 46(3) Yale Law Journal 373 (1937) (Part 2)?  Certainly, it's a classic, which has shaped how generations of common lawyers have thought [and taught] about contract damages. Every modern evaluation starts off by stating just how important it was, before offering various critiques. In fact, it's so influential that each new school of thought has to debunk it, but it survives until the next debunking. 

Eoin

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From: Purshouse, Craig <craigjp@liverpool.ac.uk>
Sent: 18 May 2023 18:58
To: Obligations list <obligations@uwo.ca>; Geoff McLay <geoff.mclay@vuw.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: suggestions for my reading course on “private law theory”
 
Hello,

For the theory seminar on our advanced torts module I tend to set the following as core reading:

Ronald Coase, ‘The Problem of Social Cost’ (1960) 3 The Journal of Law & Economics 1 (for law and economics);
Ernest Weinrib, 'Corrective Justice in a Nutshell' (2002) 52 The University of Toronto Law Journal 349 (for corrective justice);
James Goudkamp and John Murphy, 'The Failure of Universal Theories of Tort Law' (2016) 22 Legal Theory 1 (for sceptical perspectives). 

Best wishes,
Craig

Dr Craig Purshouse
Senior Lecturer in Law
Joint Director of Postgraduate Taught Programmes
Joint Editor-in-Chief of Medical Law International

School of Law and Social Justice
University of Liverpool
Chatham Street, Liverpool, L69 7ZR.


From: Hilary Young <hilaryanyoung@yahoo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2023 6:11 PM
To: Obligations list <obligations@uwo.ca>; Geoff McLay <geoff.mclay@vuw.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: suggestions for my reading course on “private law theory”
 
If you don't want strictly theoretical articles, might I recommend Tom Baker's "Liability Insurance as Tort Regulation..." and "Blood Money, New Money and the Moral Economy of Tort Law in Action". They really helped me to think differently about Tort law. And my students always love these articles.

Greetings to all,

--Hilary

Hilary Young
UNB Faculty of Law







On Tuesday, May 16, 2023 at 09:50:31 p.m. ADT, Geoff McLay <geoff.mclay@vuw.ac.nz> wrote:


Dear Colleagues 

Every year I run an honours course “Reading Legal Classics” where we read and discuss influential articles on “law”. It is a kind of a book club of sorts ( only with law review articles, or book chapters) , and is one of my favourite things about my job.  The only flaw is that students want to discuss “public law” articles.  So this year I have made the course expressly “private law theory”, although in doing that I didn’t mean to exclude private law doctrinal articles.  I was wondering if any of you might be able to suggest readings that we might include on the list - the articles don’t have to be incredibly famous ones, but I guess my main criteria for inclusion is an article that shapes the way the reader thinks not just about the particular subject but also about how to think about doing law. Any suggestions from the list would be very welcome.  In return I’ll post what the course list looked like in a couple of months, or if you are going to be in Banff I might be able to thank you  in person.

Best wishes to everyone 

ngā mihi nui

Geoff (he/him)

Professor Geoff McLay
Faculty of Law
Victoria University of Wellington

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