Rights and Private Law

Donal Nolan is the Porjes Foundation Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, University of Oxford.Andrew Robertson is a Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne.

...a very rich and rewarding collection of 21 high-quality essays... which makes an important contribution to private law scholarship.

• 1. Rights and Private Law Donal Nolan and Andrew Robertson2. Rights in Private Law Peter Cane3. Our Most Fundamental Rights Allan Beever4. Social Purposes, Fundamental Rights and the Judicial Development of Private Law François du Bois5. Rights and Other Things Robert Stevens6. Beyond 'Right' and 'Duty': Lundstedt's Theory of Obligations TT Arvind7. Of Rights Superstructural, Inchoate and Triangular: The Role of Rights in Blackstone's Commentaries Helge Dedek8. Rule-Based Rights and Court-Ordered Rights Stephen A Smith9. Rights and Responsibility in the Law of Torts John CP Goldberg and Benjamin C Zipursky10. Damages and Rights Andrew Burrows11. Explaining the Inexplicable? Four Manifestations of Abuse of Rights in English Law JW Neyers12. Rights and the Basis of Tort Law Nicholas J McBride13. Is the Role of Tort to Repair Wrongful Losses? Gregory C Keating14. The Edges of Tort Law's Rights Roderick Bagshaw15. Rights, Pluralism and the Duty of Care Andrew Robertson16. 'A Tort Against Land': Private Nuisance as a Property Tort Donal Nolan17. Private Nuisance Law: A Window on Substantive Justice Richard W Wright18. Rights and Wrongs: An Introduction to the Wrongful Interference Actions Sarah Green19. Misfeasance in a Public Office: A Justifiable Anomaly within the Rights-Based Approach? Erika Chamberlain20. Unjust Enrichment, Rights and Value Ben McFarlane21. Rights and Value in Rescission: Some Implications for Unjust Enrichment Elise Bant