Corrective Justice

Zusatztext In Corrective Justice Professor Weinrib builds on his landmark work! The Idea of Private Law! by brilliantly engaging topics ranging from unjust enrichment to legal education. The essays collected here amply display his unmatched breadth! erudition! and insight among scholars who write about private law. Informationen zum Autor A native of Toronto, Ernest Weinrib has a PhD from Harvard (1968) and a BA (1965) and a JD (1972) from the University of Toronto. He has been teaching law at the University of Toronto since 1972, and has been a visiting professor at the Yale Law School and at Tel Aviv University. He holds the rank of University Professor (the University of Toronto's highest honour) and is the Cecil A. Wright Professor of Law. Klappentext Private law governs our most pervasive relationships: the wrongs we do one another! the contracts we make and break! and the property we own. This book analyses the deepest questions about the law's foundations! showing how a distinctive notion of justice! 'corrective justice'! describes the special morality intrinsic to private law. Zusammenfassung Private law governs our most pervasive relationships: the wrongs we do one another, the contracts we make and break, and the property we own. This book analyses the deepest questions about the law's foundations, showing how a distinctive notion of justice, 'corrective justice', describes the special morality intrinsic to private law.

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• Authors: Ernest J. Weinrib, Ernest J. (Cecil A. Wright Professor of L Weinrib, Ernest J. (Cecil A. Wright Professor of Law Weinrib, Weinrib Ernest J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.08.2016
• EAN: 9780199660650
• ISBN: 978-0-19-966065-0
• No. of pages: 366
• Series: Oxford Legal Philosophy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Torts, LAW / Property, LAW / Contracts, contract law, Property law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, property law, Law of torts, damages and compensation, Torts / Delicts