Challenging Private Law
Challenging Private Law

Author: William Day

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-11-26

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 150993488X

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Lord Sumption has been one of the most influential judges of his generation. This book critically reflects on the important and controversial issues raised by his jurisprudence. Using Lord Sumption's judgments and extra-judicial lectures as a starting point, the book contains a selection of essays that consider 'where next' in relation to topics such as: - contract variation, damages and penalties; - economic loss and personal injury in tort law; - knowing receipt and proprietary restitution; - illegality in private law; - agency and attribution; - piercing the corporate veil; - foreign law in the English courts. The book covers a broad range of areas in private law including contract, tort, unjust enrichment, equity, company and commercial law, as well as private international law and civil procedure.

Challenging Private Law
Challenging Private Law

Author: William Day

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-11-26

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 1509934898

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Lord Sumption has been one of the most influential judges of his generation. This book critically reflects on the important and controversial issues raised by his jurisprudence. Using Lord Sumption's judgments and extra-judicial lectures as a starting point, the book contains a selection of essays that consider 'where next' in relation to topics such as: - contract variation, damages and penalties; - economic loss and personal injury in tort law; - knowing receipt and proprietary restitution; - illegality in private law; - agency and attribution; - piercing the corporate veil; - foreign law in the English courts. The book covers a broad range of areas in private law including contract, tort, unjust enrichment, equity, company and commercial law, as well as private international law and civil procedure.

Private Law in the 21st Century
Private Law in the 21st Century

Author: Kit Barker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-01-26

Total Pages: 613

ISBN-13: 1509908595

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This book brings together a wide range of contributors from across the common law world to identify and debate the principal moral and systemic challenges facing private law in the remaining part of the twenty-first century. The various contributions identify serious problems relating to complexity and overload, threats to research and education, the law's unintelligibility, the unsatisfactory nature of the law reform process and a general lack of public engagement. They consider the respective future roles of statutes, codes, and judge-made law (in the form of both common law and equitable rules). They consider how best to organise the private law system internally, and how to co-ordinate it externally with other public and economic systems (human rights, regulation, insurance markets and social security frameworks). They address the challenges for private law presented by new forms of technology, and by modern demands for the protection of new and intangible forms of moral interest, such as interests in privacy, 'vindication' and 'personal choice'. They also engage with the critical contemporary debates about access to, and the privatisation of, civil justice. The work is designed as a source of inspiration and reference for private lawyers, as well as legislators, policy-makers and students.

Private Enforcement of European Competition and State Aid Law
Private Enforcement of European Competition and State Aid Law

Author: Ferdinand Wollenschläger

Publisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.

Published: 2020-01-09

Total Pages: 421

ISBN-13: 940350210X

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Private Enforcement of European Competition and State Aid Law Current Challenges and the Way Forward Edited by: Ferdinand Wollenschläger, Wolfgang Wurmnest & Thomas M.J. Möllers The overlapping European Union (EU) regimes of competition law and State aid law both provide mechanisms allowing private plaintiffs to claim compensation for losses or damages. It is thus of significant practical value to provide, as this book does, analysis and guidance on achieving enforcement of such claims, written by renowned authorities in the two fields. The book examines the two areas of law both from an EU perspective and from the perspectives of private enforcement in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the United Kingdom. In country reports for these major jurisdictions, as well as in more general and comparative chapters, the authors focus on such issues as the following: impediments to private enforcement; which entity is liable for damages; binding effect of decisions of competition authorities; limitation of actions; collective actions and pooling of claims; enforcement of the standstill obligation (Article 108(3) TFEU); remedies and information deficits; cooperation and coordination between national courts and the European Commission; transposition of the so-called Damages Directive (Directive 2014/104/EU) by the EU Member States; extent to which the strengthening of private enforcement of competition law has a spillover effect on State aid law; and prospects for harmonisation of State aid law. A concluding section identifies enforcement deficits and proposes ways to improve the existing legal framework. As an in-depth assessment of key obstacles and best practices in private enforcement actions, this highly informative and practical volume facilitates choice of the best forum for competition and State aid law cases. Academics and practitioners engaged with this important area of European law will appreciate the authors’ awareness of the economic need and legal particularities which could generate an effective European system of private enforcement of legitimate claims under EU competition and State aid law.

New Private Law Theory
New Private Law Theory

Author: Stefan Grundmann

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-03-18

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1108486509

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New Private Law Theory is pluralist, comparative, application-oriented, transnational and reflects critical approaches.

Introduction to Spanish Private Law
Introduction to Spanish Private Law

Author: Teresa Rodriguez de las Heras Ballell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-10

Total Pages: 586

ISBN-13: 1135214638

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The topics addressed in this book have traditionally been covered in separate publications on civil and commercial law. This dualism of regimes has made it difficult for students and professionals alike to comprehend Spanish private law as a whole. In the past this has led to inefficient duplication of explanations, gaps in key areas and an altogether fragmented picture. Introduction to Spanish Private Law presents a consolidated, modern, and realistic image of today’s Spanish private legal system. It combines both civil and commercial law and integrates them in the same book, making the overall subject far more accessible to readers. This united approach results in a more logical and efficient process of learning. Finally the issues that are addressed reflect the reality of today’s economic and legal scene. This book attempts to provide the readers with the necessary legal instruments to tackle the real problems arising from a globalized modern society. The general principles in this book are presented from a practical point of view that emanates from the authors’ conception of a legal system as an instrument to solve social problems in accordance with a set of principles, values and aims.

The Turning Point in Private Law
The Turning Point in Private Law

Author: Ugo Mattei

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018-10-26

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1786435187

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Can private law assume an ecological meaning? Can property and contract defend nature? Is tort law an adequate tool for paying environmental damages to future generations? This book explores potential resolutions to these questions, analyzing the evolution of legal thinking in relation to the topics of legal personality, property, contract and tort. In this forward thinking book, Mattei and Quarta suggest a list of basic principles upon which a new, ecological legal system could be based. Taking private law to represent an ally in the defence of our future, they offer a clear characterization of the fundamental legal institutions of common law and civil law, considering the challenges of the Anthropogenic era, technological tools of the Internet era, and the global rise of the commons. Summarizing the fundamental institutions of private law: property rights, legal personality, contract, and tort, the authors reveal the limits of these legal institutions in relation to historical international evolution and their regulation in the contexts of catastrophic ecological issues and technological developments. Engaging and thoughtful, this book will be interesting reading for legal scholars and academics of private law and, in particular, those wishing to understand the role of law when facing technological and ecological challenges.

Research Handbook on Remedies in Private Law
Research Handbook on Remedies in Private Law

Author: Roger Halson

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 1786431270

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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} This Research Handbook comprehensively and authoritatively reviews the contemporary challenges in research regarding remedies in private law. The Research Handbook on Remedies in Private Law focuses on the most important issues throughout contract, equity, restitution and tort law as they have arisen in the major common law jurisdictions, touching upon those of other jurisdictions where pertinent.

Private Law
Private Law

Author: Kit Barker

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13:

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The relationship between private and public law and policy has long been the focus of critical attention, but recent years have seen the intensification of a significant number of 'public' pressures on private law. These have taken the form of the growing influences of statutory intervention, public regulation, corporate globalisation, class actions and constitutional and international human rights norms. Such developments increasingly call into question the capacity of private law to operate in isolation from public law, public institutions and public policy goals. They invite a critical re-examination of the ways in which private and public law and the values and aims underpinning these fields relate to each other. This piece provides a thematic overview and critical analysis of a number of contributions to an edited work carrying the same title. One of the conclusions it reaches is that the challenges that private law faces in its relationship with public law and public policy take the form of a complex set of co-ordination problems. These relate to (1) the co-ordination of the interests of ('private') individuals are with those of groups and society as a whole; (2) the relative use of legislative ('public') and judicial techniques within private law itself; (3) the co-ordination of public (state) and private (market) resources in the initiation, funding and settlement of private law claims; (4) the co-ordination of the private laws of one state with those of others in the context of globalised markets; (5) the co-ordination of systems of private law rules with 'public' (state-run) welfare systems, such as social security, 'compensation' and 'reparation' schemes, as well as with 'market' mechanisms for dealing with risk and harm, such as first and third party insurance systems; and (6) the co-ordination of private law rules with public law rules, such as human rights provisions, administrative law rules and criminal provisions. These multiple co-ordination problems present practical as well as ideological challenges and they can only be resolved through the collective efforts of judges, legislators and policy-makers acting in a closer, more reflexive and reflective relationship of co-operation.