Private Law - Key Encounters With Public Law

Informationen zum Autor Kit Barker is Professor of Law at TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. Darryn Jensen is a Senior Lecturer at TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. Klappentext An examination of contemporary encounters between public law and private law from both theoretical and practical perspectives. Zusammenfassung Examines the ways in which private law and public law interact with and shape each other in terms of their goals! methods and values - both generally and in specific domains of activity such as charity law! commercial law! tort law! human rights and the law of remedies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. Private law: key encounters with public law Kit Barker and Darryn Jensen; Part II. Private and Public: Definitions, Theory and Taxonomy: 2. Public and private: neither deep nor meaningful William Lucy and Alexander Williams; 3. Courts as public authorities, private law as instrument of government Steve Hedley; 4. Origins of the public/private theory of legal systems Christian Turner; Part III. Private and Public: Key Encounters: 5. What is the point of charity law? Matthew Harding; 6. Public benefit, discrimination and the definition of charity Adam Parachin; 7. Private law and its normative influence on human rights Michelle Flaherty; 8. The synthesis of public and private in finance law Alastair Hudson; 9. Discerning public law concepts in corporate law discourse Anita Krug; 10. A public role for the intentional torts Dan Priel; 11. Cy-près as a class action remedy - justly maligned or just misunderstood? Jeff Berryman and Robyn Carroll.

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• Authors: Kit Barker, Kit (University of Queensland) Jensen Barker, Kit Jensen Barker
• Assisted by: Kit Barker (Editor), Kit (University of Queensland) Barker (Editor), Barker Kit (Editor), Darryn Jensen (Editor), Darryn (University of Queensland) Jensen (Editor), Jensen Darryn (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.12.2013
• EAN: 9781107039117
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03911-7
• No. of pages: 385
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, LAW / Civil Law, Commercial law, Private or civil law: general, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general