Rights, Wrongs, and Injustices - The Structure of Remedial Law

This essential guide to remedial law explores the distinctive legal questions raised by the use of remedies in settlements. The book outlines the general structure of remedial law and its relationship to other areas of private law.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Historical Foundations


• 3: Form, Creation, Legal Effects


• 4: The Basic Structure


• 5: Philosophical Foundations


• 6: Rights-Threats


• 7: Wrongs


• 8: Injustices


• 9: Defences

About the author

Stephen A. Smith is James McGill Professor at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, where he teaches primarily in the fields of private law (common and civil law) and legal theory. A former clerk to the then Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, Brian Dickson, Professor Smith is a graduate of Queen's University (BA), the University of Toronto (LLM), and the University of Oxford (DCL). Professor Smith was a Fellow in Law at St. Anne's College, Oxford from 1991-98 and has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Texas, Tel Aviv, Aix-Marseille, and Singapore, and held visiting fellowships at the University of Southern California, Queensland, New Zealand (all law faculties), Cambridge, Toronto, and Oxford.

Summary

This essential guide to remedial law explores the distinctive legal questions raised by the use of remedies in settlements. The book outlines the general structure of remedial law and its relationship to other areas of private law.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen A. Smith, Stephen A. (James Mcgill Professor Smith, Smith Stephen A.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780199229772
• ISBN: 978-0-19-922977-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory; Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory; Oxford Private Law Theory
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Civil Law, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Remedies & Damages, Private or civil law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Private / Civil law: general works, Law of torts, damages and compensation, Torts / Delicts