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Understanding the Law of Obligations

Posted By: AlenMiler
Understanding the Law of Obligations

Understanding the Law of Obligations
Publisher: Andrew Burrows (Hart Publishing) | 1998-06 | ISBN: 1901362388 | PDF | 224 pages | 1.6 MB

This collection of essays explores issues that are of central importance in understanding the law of obligations. Each has a wide-ranging focus and, taken together, it is hoped that they provide the reader with a clear and stimulating guide to the present shape and likely future development of the law of obligations. I have long held the belief that, in understanding the law of obligations, one should distinguish contract, tort, and restitution, while recognising concurrent liability between them. Essays " and & directly examine that belief. Essay " explains modifications in my thinking since the article I wrote on the same theme in the Law Quarterly !eview. Essay & is an edited version of my inaugural lecture at UCL delivered on "% November "##) (and published in 1 The postscript to essay & deals with two questions that are briefly touched on in that essay but merit more detailed consideration. Essays *–' look at various aspects of the newly-recognised law of restitution, including likely future developments. They are lightlyupdated versions of articles published at respectively. Versions of essay were presented to a conference on Equity, !estitution and the Banking Lawyer at Bond University on &* July "##); to a staff seminar at the University of Queensland on * August "##); to members of the Australian Banking Law Association in Melbourne on &) August "##) and in Sydney on ' September "##); and to Freehills, Sydney, on % September "##). A version of essay ) was presented to the Cambridge meeting of the SPTL !estitution Group in September "#$+. Essay ' was delivered in the series “Law and Opinion at the end of the wentieth Century” in UCL on "* March"




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