From: Jason W Neyers <jneyers@uwo.ca>

Sent: Wednesday 30 October 2024 18:26

To: obligations

Subject: ODG: Private Law and the State

Dear Colleagues:

Just a quick note to let you know that Private Law and the State (the proceeds of Obligations X in Banff) will be published by Hart in mid-November and is available for pre-order. Many thanks to all the attendees, the co-organizers (Zoe Sinel, Joanna Langille, Andrew Robertson), my co-editor and the all the wonderful authors!

Here is the relevant information:

Private Law and the State

Edited by Andrew Robertson and Jason W Neyers

This collection explores the relationship between the state and private law. It addresses four overlapping questions; opening by asking why states recognise and enforce private law obligations and liabilities. It goes on to ask how the state as a legal actor is subject to private law. The third question explored relates to the relationship between private law and public law. Finally, it examines the role of the public interest in private law. With the perspectives of world-leading commentators, from both academia and the judiciary, this book provides a fascinating assessment of a crucial but complex relationship.

Andrew Robertson is Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Jason W Neyers is Professor of Law at Western University, Canada.

Nov 2024   |   9781509977642   |   336pp   |   Hbk   |    RRP: 110

Discount Price: 88

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Here is the table of contents:

1. Introduction
Andrew Robertson and Jason Neyers
2. The State, Obligations, and Interpretative Method
Andrew Robertson
3. Diceyan Equality: Floor or Ceiling for Public Authority Liability?
Erika Chamberlain
4. The Liability of Public Authorities for Torts
James Edelman
5. Hoist by its Own Petard: Can the State be Liable in a Civil Action for Breach of Statutory Duty?
Neil Foster
6. Wither the State? Challenges to Private and Public Law Created by Contracting out State Functions
Catharine MacMillan
7. Wrongful Disclosures from Police Investigations and the Citizen-State Relationship
Nicole Moreham
8. The Right to Resist
Nick McBride
9. Private Law and Mass Claims: Regulating in the Place of the State
Suzanne Chiodo
10. Framing Civil Actions for Wrongs as a Spectrum: From Tort Law to Pure Enforcement
Grigoris Bacharis
11. Remedies and the Public Interest
Alexander Georgiou and Sandy Steel
12. Explaining State Curbs on Contract Remedies
Sarah Worthington
13. Public and Private in the Law of Public Nuisance
Arthur Ripstein
14. Equity and Society: Interests and Techniques
Yip Man

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)

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