Private law in the 21st century

This book brings together a wide range of contributors from across the common law world to identify and debate the principal moral and systemic challenges facing private law in the remaining part of the twenty-first century. The various contributions identify serious problems relating to complexity...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Barker, Kit, editor (editor), Fairweather, Karen, editor, Grantham, Ross, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford [UK] ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing 2017.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
Hart studies in private law ; volume 19.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b46072998*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Private law as a complex system : agendas for the twenty-first century / Kit Barker
  • Challenges for private law in the twenty-first century / Andrew Burrows
  • Rationalising tort law for the twenty-first century / Ken Oliphant
  • The challenges of private law : a research agenda for an autonomy-based private law / Hanoch Dagan
  • The steaming lungs of a pigeon : predicting the direction of Australian contract law in the next 25 years / Warren Swain
  • Codification of private law : Scots law at the crossroads of common and civil law / Martin A Hogg
  • Power-failure? the distracting effect of legislation on common law torts / Wendy Bonython
  • Constructive trusteeship : the perils of statutory formulae / Darryn Jensen
  • Fusing the equitable function in private law / Henry E Smith
  • Dealing with complexity : different approaches to explaining accessory liability / Joachim Dietrich
  • The challenges presented by fundamental rights to private law / Hugh Collins
  • The limits of technocracy : private law's future in the regulatory state / TT Arvind and Joanna Gray
  • Common law and the constraint of financial markets : credit-ratings as a test case / Joshua Getzler and Alexandra Whelan
  • Apologies as canaries : tortious liability in negligence and insurance in the twenty-first century / Prue Vines
  • When lump sums run out : disputes at the borderlines of tort law, injury compensation, and social security / Genevieve Grant, Kylie Burns, Rosamund Harrington, Prue Vines, Elizabeth Kendall and Annick Maujean
  • Perform if and when you do?: non-performance and the suspension of contractual duties / Andrew Tettenborn
  • Vindicatory damages / James Edelman
  • Persuasive technologies : from loss of privacy to loss of autonomy / Eliza Mik
  • Snooping : how should damages be assessed for harmless breaches of privacy? / Erika Chamberlain
  • Compensating injury to autonomy : a conceptual and normative analysis / Tsachi Keren-Paz
  • Matter over mind : tort law's treatment of emotional injury / Anne Schuurman and Zoe Sinel
  • The interaction between defamation and privacy / David Rolph
  • Making amends by apologising for defamatory publications : developments in the twenty-first century / Robyn Carroll and Jeffrey Berryman
  • Tort and neo-liberalism / Annette Morris
  • Reforming Australian litigation lawyers : educational impacts of civil procedural laws and judicial activism / Francesca Bartlett
  • Private law in the age of the vanishing trial? / Carlo Vittorio Giabardo.