The Goals of Private Law

1. Introduction: Goals, Rights and Obligations Andrew Robertson
Part I-Private Law and Public Goals
2. The Mutually Constitutive Nature of Public and Private Law Mayo Moran
3. What's Private About Private Law? William Lucy
Part II-Rights and Goals
4. The Role of Duty of Care in a Rights-Based Theory of Negligence Law Stephen Perry
5. The Rights of Private Law Stephen A Smith
6. The Conflict of Rights Robert Stevens
7. Causation and the Goals of Tort Law Donal Nolan
Part III-The Role of Goals in Private Law
8. Looking Outward or Looking Inward? Obligations Scholarship in the Early 21st Century Steve Hedley
9. Treating Like Cases Alike: Principle and Classification in Private Law Charlie Webb
10. Tort Law, Concepts and What Really Matters Roderick Bagshaw
11. Constraints on Policy-Based Reasoning in Private Law Andrew Robertson
Part IV-Community Welfare Goals in Private Law Doctrines
12. Negligent Investigation: Tort Law as Police Ombudsman Erika Chamberlain
13. Deterrence in Private Law Yock Lin Tan
14. Justifying Fiduciary Allowances Matthew Harding
15. Gain-Based Remedies and the Place of Deterrence in the Law of Fiduciary Obligations Anthony Duggan
16. The Normative Foundations of Restitution for Wrongs: Justifying Gain-based Relief for Nuisance Craig Rotherham
Part V-The Goals of Unjust Enrichment Law
17. Just and Unjust Enrichments Hanoch Dagan
18. The Rules of Obligations Emily Sherwin
19. Storytelling in the Law of Unjust Enrichment Tang Hang Wu
20. Demolishing the Pyramid-the Presence of Basis and Risk-Taking in the Law of Unjust Enrichment Graham Virgo
Stephen Perry (Pennsylvania)
Peter Benson (Toronto),
Robert Stevens (UCL)
Mayo Moran (Toronto)
Tony Duggan Toronto)
Hanoch Dagan (Tel Aviv)
William Lucy (Manchester).
Tort law: Lord Hoffmann, Donal Nolan (Oxford), Roderick Bagshaw (Oxford), Kumaralingam Amirthalingam (Singapore) and Jenny Steele (Southampton).
Unjust enrichment: Charles Rickett (Queensland), Lionel Smith (McGill), Emily Sherwin (Cornell).
Equity and trusts: Ben Mcfarlane (Oxford), John Mee (Cork), Craig Rotherham (Nottingham).
Contract: Mindy Chen-Wishart (Oxford), David Campbell (Durham).
Remedies: Stephen Smith (McGill), Michael Bryan (Melbourne).