Reciprocal Freedom - Private Law and Public Right

Combining legal and philosophical analysis, Reciprocal Freedom offers a sequenced and legally informed argument for understanding law as necessary to our existence as free beings. Exploring the relationship between private law and the state, this book covers conceptions of corrective justice, rights, ownership, and the role of legal institutions.

List of contents

• Preface


• 1: Structure


• 2: Rights


• 3: Ownership


• 4: Public Right


• 5: Distributive Justice


• 6: Horizontality: Presuppositions and Functions


• 7: Horizontality: Scope and Operation


• 8: The Rule of Law

About the author

Ernest J. Weinrib has a PhD from Harvard (1968) and a BA (1965) and a JD (1972) from the University of Toronto. He taught law at the University of Toronto from 1972 to 2021, and he has been a visiting professor at the Yale Law School and at Tel Aviv University. He held the rank of University Professor (the University of Toronto's highest honour) and was the Cecil A. Wright Professor of Law.

Summary

Combining legal and philosophical analysis, Reciprocal Freedom offers a sequenced and legally informed argument for understanding law as necessary to our existence as free beings. Exploring the relationship between private law and the state, this book covers conceptions of corrective justice, rights, ownership, and the role of legal institutions.

Additional text

In Reciprocal Freedom, Ernest Weinrib has produced a work at once rich in conception and spare in execution, one that raises into the element of thought the post-war, individual-centred liberal republic on which, perhaps, dusk is now falling... By revealing the most rigorously conceptual individual-centred doctrine of Right as a destroyer of private law, it makes way for an alternative understanding of private law from the transcendental standpoint that truly vindicates it.

Product details

• Authors: Ernest J. Weinrib, Ernest J. (University Professor Emeritus Weinrib, Weinrib Ernest J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9780198754183
• ISBN: 978-0-19-875418-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Clarendon Law Lectures
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, LAW / Constitutional, LAW / Civil Law, LAW / Jurisprudence, Private or civil law: general, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Private / Civil law: general works