Constitutional Rights in Private Law

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Constitutional Rights in Private Law

By Tom Kohavi
Hart Publishing October 2025

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ISBN-13
9781509977109
Publisher
Hart Publishing
Publication
October 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book provides the philosophical foundations for the application of constitutional rights in private law-and more broadly, for social justice-oriented private law reform.

It does this by connecting lessons from political and moral philosophy to those from constitutional and private law theories about their nature and limits. This allows the author to construct a framework for bringing constitutional rights and social justice to bear on private law's ongoing operation. This is an impressively rigorous analytical work, which will be widely welcomed by private lawyers, legal theorists and social rights scholars.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
1.1. The Challenge
1.2. Historical Background
1.3. The Horizontality Spectrum
1.4. Moral Foundations
1.5. Rights and Justifications
1.6. Methodological Remarks
1.7. The Road Ahead

2. Horizontal Expansion
2.1. Introduction
2.2. Traditional Verticality
2.3. Political Foundations
2.4. General Rights
2.5. Loose Relationality
2.6. Public Legitimacy
2.7. Conclusion

3. Relational Resistance
3.1. Introduction
3.2. Direct Horizontality
3.3. Relational Foundations
3.4. Private Rights
3.5. Strict Relationality
3.6. Private Spheres
3.7. Conclusion

4. Realisation and Pluralism
4.1. From Delineation to Realisation
4.2. Going Indirect
4.3. Strong Indirect Effect
4.4. Moral Pluralism
4.5. Social and Local Justice
4.6. Realisation Reasoning
4.7. Conclusion

5. Realisation as Regulation
5.1. Introduction
5.2. Weak Indirect Effect
5.3. Identifying Responsibilities
5.4. Assigning Responsibilities
5.5. Justificatory Ascent
5.6. The Common Law
5.7. Conclusion

6. Modern Private Law
6.1. A Midlife Crisis
6.2. Corporations
6.3. Agency and Choice
6.4. Vulnerability and Need
6.5. Disintegration
6.6. Reintegration
6.7. Private Law Paths

7. Conclusion
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