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Zusatztext The essays in this collection greatly advance our understanding of what lies begind unjust enrichment, its elements and its structure Informationen zum Autor Robert Chambers is Professor of Law at University College, London. He is the author of Resulting Trusts (OUP, 1997) and is currently writing a volume in the Clarendon Law series on Trusts law.Charles Mitchell is Professor of Law at King's College, London. He is the author of The Law of Contribution and Reimbursement (OUP, 2003) and Subrogation, Law and Practcice (OUP, 2007), he is currently writing a practitioner text on the law of unjust enrichment for OUP.James Penner is Professor of Law at University College, London, specialising in the philosophy of property and private law. He is the author of The Idea of Property in Law (OUP, 1997) and The Law of Trusts (6th ed. OUP, 2008). Klappentext This volume takes stock of the rapid changes to the law of unjust enrichment over the last decade. It offers a set of original contributions from leading private law theorists examining the philosophical foundations of the law. The essays consider the central questions raised by demarcating unjust enrichment as a separate area of private law - including how its normative foundations relate to those of other areas of private law, how the concept of enrichment relates to property theory, how the remedy of restitution relates to principles of corrective justice and what role mental elements should play in shaping the law. Zusammenfassung This volume takes stock of the rapid changes to the law of unjust enrichment over the last decade. It offers original contributions from leading private law theorists examining the philosophical foundations of the law. The essays consider the central questions raised by the attempt to demarcate unjust enrichment as a separate area of private law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Contributors Table of Cases Table of Legislation Part I Introduction 1: Robert Chambers, Charles Mitchell, and James Penner: Introduction Part II NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS 2: Ernest J Weinrib: Correctively Unjust Enrichment 3: Hanoch Dagan: Restitution's Realism 4: Dennis Klimchuk: The Normative Foundations of Unjust Enrichment 5: Mitchell McInnes: Resisting Temptations to 'Justice' 6: Kit Barker: The Nature of Responsibility for Gain: Gain, Harm, and Keeping the Lid on Pandora's Box 7: Stephen A. Smith: Unjust Enrichment: Nearer to Tort than Contract Part III Enrichment 8: James Edelman: The Meaning of Loss and Enrichment 9: Robert Chambers: Two Kinds of Enrichment Part IV UNJUST ENRICHMENT AND PROPERTY 10: Lionel Smith: Philosophical Foundations of Proprietary Remedies 11: James Penner: Value, Property, and Unjust Enrichment: Trusts of Traceable Proceeds 12: Charlie Webb: Property, Unjust Enrichment and Defective Transfers Part V: REASONS FOR RESTITUTION 13: Aruna Nair: 'Mistakes of Law' and Legal Reasoning: Interpreting Kleinwort Benson v Lincoln City Council 14: Charles Mitchell and Peter Oliver: Unjust Enrichment and the Idea of Public Law 15: Prince Saprai: Unconscionable Enrichment? ...
