Simone Degeling is Professor of Law and Michael Crawford is Lecturer in Law, both at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.Nicholas Tiverios is Senior Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Western Australia.

• 1. IntroductionSimone Degeling, University of New South Wales, Australia, Michael JR Crawford, University of New South Wales, Australia, and Nicholas A Tiverios, University of Western AustraliaPART ITHE NATURE OF PRIVATE RIGHTS2. Justifying Private Rights Peter Cane, University of Cambridge, UK3. Justifying Private Law: ‘Reasons Fundamentalist’ Instrumentalism and the Kantian Account James Penner, National University of Singapore4. Intermediate and Comprehensive Justifications for Legal Rules Stephen A Smith, McGill University, Canada5. Can We Be Wrong About Rights? Nicholas J McBride, University of Cambridge, UK6. Juridical Justification of Private Rights Paul B Miller, University of Notre Dame, USA7. Sources of Private Rights Lionel Smith, McGill University, CanadaPART IIPARTICULAR PRIVATE RIGHTS8. Justifying Possession (or How We Get from Here to There) Michael JR Crawford, University of New South Wales, Australia9. Understanding the Tort of Deceit Andrew Botterell, Western University, Canada10. Justifying Liabilities and Duties Andrew Robertson, University of Melbourne, Australia11. Equity and the Justification of Private Rights Ben McFarlane, University of Oxford, UK12. Property, Therefore: Is an Equitable Doctrine of Relief against the Forfeiture of Contractual Rights Justifiable? Nicholas A Tiverios, University of Western Australia