Jane Stapleton QC FBA is an academic who has taught common law subjects, especially the law of torts, in Oxford, Cambridge, the European University Institute, and the United States. She is an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn, a Council Member of the American Law Institute, and an Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor at the Australian National University. Her awards include the American Bar Association's Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award, the Association of American Law Schools' Prosser Award, the Wedderburn Prize, and the John G. Fleming Prize. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College and Master of Christ's College Cambridge.

Throughout the book, there is an attempt to articulate for the next generation of academic lawyers the sort of questions they should be asking themselves and the sort of solutions they should be trying to articulate. The intention, clearly, is not so much to educate -- although there is much to learn from these essays -- as to enthuse and inspire. Any student wanting to get 'under the bonnet' of legal policy and gain insight into the shape and purpose of 'black-letter' law will read these essays with profit and enjoyment.

• Introduction 1: Taking the Judges Seriously versus Grand Theories 2: Cooperation and Economic Self-Reliance in Commercial Arrangements 3: Conceptual Interplay between Elements of the Tort of Negligence

Jane Stapleton QC FBA is an academic who has taught common law subjects, especially the law of torts, in Oxford, Cambridge, the European University Institute, and the United States. She is an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn, a Council Member of the American Law Institute, and an Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor at the Australian National University. Her awards include the American Bar Association's Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award, the Association of American Law Schools' Prosser Award, the Wedderburn Prize, and the John G. Fleming Prize. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College and Master of Christ's College Cambridge.

Throughout the book, there is an attempt to articulate for the next generation of academic lawyers the sort of questions they should be asking themselves and the sort of solutions they should be trying to articulate. The intention, clearly, is not so much to educate -- although there is much to learn from these essays -- as to enthuse and inspire. Any student wanting to get 'under the bonnet' of legal policy and gain insight into the shape and purpose of 'black-letter' law will read these essays with profit and enjoyment.

• Introduction 1: Taking the Judges Seriously versus Grand Theories 2: Cooperation and Economic Self-Reliance in Commercial Arrangements 3: Conceptual Interplay between Elements of the Tort of Negligence

Jane Stapleton QC FBA is an academic who has taught common law subjects, especially the law of torts, in Oxford, Cambridge, the European University Institute, and the United States. She is an Honorary Bencher of Gray's Inn, a Council Member of the American Law Institute, and an Emeritus Distinguished Research Professor at the Australian National University. Her awards include the American Bar Association's Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award, the Association of American Law Schools' Prosser Award, the Wedderburn Prize, and the John G. Fleming Prize. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College and Master of Christ's College Cambridge.

Throughout the book, there is an attempt to articulate for the next generation of academic lawyers the sort of questions they should be asking themselves and the sort of solutions they should be trying to articulate. The intention, clearly, is not so much to educate -- although there is much to learn from these essays -- as to enthuse and inspire. Any student wanting to get 'under the bonnet' of legal policy and gain insight into the shape and purpose of 'black-letter' law will read these essays with profit and enjoyment.

• Introduction 1: Taking the Judges Seriously versus Grand Theories 2: Cooperation and Economic Self-Reliance in Commercial Arrangements 3: Conceptual Interplay between Elements of the Tort of Negligence