Private Law Reform in a Changing World: Essays in Honour of Professor Kenneth McK. Norrie

Reflects on forty years of private law reform against the background of broader legal and societal changes

• Brings together different perspectives on key contemporary issues in private law
• Marks, celebrates and reflects upon Professor Norrie’s contribution to the discipline
• Covers a breadth of private law issues, for example medical law, child & family law, delict and succession
• Considers law reform in diverse areas, collectively spanning the 40 years of Professor Norrie’s career
• Features a range of leading contributors in the field, including academics and practitioners

Bringing together a range of leading private law scholars, this book considers developments in law, policy and practice resulting from, and driven by wider changes in society and the legal system over the last forty years.

In reflecting on these developments, the book honours the scholarship of Professor Kenneth McK. Norrie who spent his forty-year academic career expertly navigating this changing world, identifying the legal implications of it and contributing to law reform in several areas of Scots law. One of the unique features of Professor Norrie’s scholarship is its breadth and so, in celebration of this, contributions come from across private law including its interface with public law.

Private Law Reform in a Changing World brings together different perspectives on key contemporary issues in private law covering varied and topical areas of law such as abortion, children’s rights, youth justice and child protection, parenthood, adult intimate relationships, delict and succession.