The Classification of Obligations

by Peter Birks (Editor)

Overview

Respected legal scholar Peter Birks offers here a collection of papers concerned with the classification of obligations—a topical and important new area of discussion within the study of law. These essays combine practical and academic perspectives, highlighting contemporary trends in the law of obligations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198265986
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/19/1998
Series:	SPTL Seminar Series
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)
Lexile:	1660L (what's this?)

About the Author

Oxford University

Table of Contents

Editor's PrefaceTable of CasesOne: Definition and Division: A Meditation on Institutes, Peter BirksTwo: The Juridical Classification of Obligations, Ernest WeinribThree: Legal Classification as the Production of Knowledge Systems, Hugh CollinsFour: The Classification of Obligations and Legal Education, Nicholas McBrideFive: Basic Obligations, James PennerSix: More than a Trace of the Old Philosophy, Jeffrey HackneySeven: Patterns of Fusion, Joshua GetzlerEight: A New ‘Seascape' for Obligations: Reclassification on the Basis of Measure of Damages, Jane StapletonNine: Is there a Future for International Torts?, David HowarthTen: Private Law, Economic Rationality and the Regulatory State, Simon Deakin