This is an important book which explores the classification of obligations. This is a very topical subject since the professions only started requiring Obligations in the compulsory core as recently as October 1995. It is fitting that it is examined here by contributors who are among the best-known writers in this field. The contributions include A New 'Seascape' for Obligations: Reclassification on the Basis of Measure of Damages by Jane Stapleton;
Basic Obligations by James Penner; and an essay by Peter Birks himself entitled, Definition and Division: A Meditation on Institutes. These essays combine practical and academic perspectives which usefully highlight
contemporary trends in the law of obligations. The book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of all teachers involved in this area of law.
This is an important book which explores the classification of obligations. This is a very topical subject since the professions only started requiring Obligations in the compulsory core as recently as October 1995. It is fitting that it is examined here by contributors who are among the best-known writers in this field. The contributions include A New 'Seascape' for Obligations: Reclassification on the Basis of Measure of Damages by Jane Stapleton;
Basic Obligations by James Penner; and an essay by Peter Birks himself entitled, Definition and Division: A Meditation on Institutes. These essays combine practical and academic perspectives which usefully highlight
contemporary trends in the law of obligations. The book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of all teachers involved in this area of law.
Editor's Preface
Table of Cases
Peter Birks: One: Definition and Division: A Meditation on
Institutes
Ernest Weinrib: Two: The Juridical Classification of
Obligations
Hugh Collins: Three: Legal Classification as the Production of
Knowledge Systems
Nicholas McBride: Four: The Classification of Obligations and Legal
Education
James Penner: Five: Basic Obligations
Jeffrey Hackney: Six: More than a Trace of the Old Philosophy
Joshua Getzler: Seven: Patterns of Fusion
Jane Stapleton: Eight: A New `Seascape' for Obligations:
Reclassification on the Basis of Measure of Damages
David Howarth: Nine: Is there a Future for International Torts?
Simon Deakin: Ten: Private Law, Economic Rationality and the
Regulatory State
`Birks is to be commended on the even-handedness of his editorship
on treatments of a matter about which he feels so strongly ... Who
can read Birks and not feel the power of his passionate criticisms
of what often now passes for legal education?'
David Campbell, Journal of Law and Society
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