Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Unjust Enrichment
- ISBN-10
- 0199567751
- ISBN-13
- 9780199567751
- Category
- Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
- Pages
- 446
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Robert Chambers, Charles Christopher James Mitchell, James E. Penner
Description
Introduction /Robert Chambers, Charles Mitchell, and James Penner --Correctively unjust enrichment /Ernest J Weinrib --Restitution's realism /Hanoch Dagan --The normative foundations of unjust enrichment /Dennis Klimchuk --Resisting temptations to 'justice' /Mitchell McInnes --The nature of responsibility for gain : gain, harm, and keeping the lid on Pandora's box /Kit Barker --Unjust enrichment : nearer to tort than contract /Stephen A. Smith --The meaning of loss and enrichment /James Edelman --Two kinds of enrichment /Robert Chambers --Philosophical foundations of proprietary remedies /Lionel Smith --Value, property, and unjust enrichment : trusts of traceable proceeds /James Penner --Property, unjust enrichment and defective transfers /Charlie Webb --'Mistakes of law' and legal reasoning : interpreting Kleinwort Benson v Lincoln City Council /Aruna Nair --Unjust enrichment and the idea of public law /Charles Mitchell and Peter Oliver --Unconscionable enrichment? /Prince Saprai.
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