Justice in Private Law

Name: Justice in Private Law
Brand: Hart Publishing
SKU: 9781509953929
Price: 529.49 HKD
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Author: Peter Jaffey
ISBN: 9781509953929

By Peter Jaffey

Hart Publishing March 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781509953929
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Publication: March 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book sets out a general approach to private law, covering contract, tort and private property. Identifying certain fundamental aspects of these areas, it illustrates how this approach can provide solutions to certain longstanding problems.

Two overarching ideas inform this novel approach: 'standpoint imitation' and 'remedial consistency'. The standpoint limitation explains the distinctive character of private law, that is to say why it is focussed mainly though not exclusively on the interests of the two parties rather than the common welfare. Remedial consistency explains the way in which remedies depend on and give effect to primary rights.

The book goes on to consider the nature of theories of law in order to make clear the sort of theory suggested, and common law legal reasoning and how it is related to the suggested approach. This provides a unique way of thinking about private law and its role in dispensing justice which will be of interest to all those in the field.

1. Introduction

2. Theories of law

3. The structure of private law

4. The distributive justice theory of private law

5. The corrective justice theory of private law

6. The standpoint limitation approach

7. The standpoint limitation applied to tort and contract

8. Private property

9. Private property rights and claims

10. The common law

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