Classification of Obligations

Zusatztext Birks is to be commended on the even-handedness of his editorship on treatments of a matter about which he feels so strongly ... Who can read Birks and not feel the power of his passionate criticisms of what often now passes for legal education? Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This volume explores the classification of obligations. Contributions include A New 'Seascape' for Obligations: Reclassification on the Basis of Measure of Damages by Jane Stapleton; Basic Obligations by James Penner; and an essay by Peter Birks himself entitled, Definition and Division: A Meditation on Institutes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's Preface Table of Cases One: Definition and Division: A Meditation on Institutes Two: The Juridical Classification of Obligations Three: Legal Classification as the Production of Knowledge Systems Four: The Classification of Obligations and Legal Education Five: Basic Obligations Six: More than a Trace of the Old Philosophy Seven: Patterns of Fusion Eight: A New `Seascape' for Obligations: Reclassification on the Basis of Measure of Damages Nine: Is there a Future for International Torts? Ten: Private Law, Economic Rationality and the Regulatory State

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• Authors: P. B. H. Birks, Peter Birks, Peter (Regius Professor of Civil Law Birks
• Assisted by: Peter Birks (Editor), Birks Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1997
• EAN: 9780198265986
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826598-6
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Seminar Series; SPTL Seminar series; SPTL Seminar series; Sptl Seminar
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; England, Wales, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Civil Law, LAW / Torts, LAW / Contracts, contract law, Private or civil law: general, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Private / Civil law: general works, Law of torts, damages and compensation, Torts / Delicts, Wales / Cymru