Read more
In
The Laws of Restitution, Robert Stevens seeks to show that there is no unified law of restitution or unjust enrichment. He also explains how the law of restitution relates to, and is bound up with, areas of contract, torts, equity, and property law.
List of contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- 1: Summary
- 2: Foundations
- Part II Unjustified Performance
- 3: Performance
- 4: Reversal
- 5: Theory
- 6: Practice
- Part III Conditional Performance
- 7: Conditions
- 8: Contract
- Part IV Intervention in Another's Affairs
- 9: Discharge
- 10: Necessity
- Part V Property and Trusts
- 11: Things
- 12: Equity: General
- 13: Equity: Restitution
- 14: Improvements
- Part VI Wrongdoing
- 15: Wrongs
- 16: Profits
- 17: Damages
- Part VII Countervailing Reasons
- 18: Defences
- 19: Illegality
- Part VIII Apologia
- 20: Conclusion
About the author
Professor Robert Stevens is the Herbert Smith Freehills Professor of English Private Law at the University of Oxford. Previously he was a Professor of commercial law at UCL, a lecturer in law at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Lady Margaret Hall. He is also a commercial barrister and has published widely on many aspects of private law, always seeking to show how the theory of academic law has practical relevance to the law as found in the courts. He is the author of Torts and Rights (OUP, 2007).
Summary
In The Laws of Restitution, Robert Stevens seeks to show that there is no unified law of restitution or unjust enrichment. He also explains how the law of restitution relates to, and is bound up with, areas of contract, torts, equity, and property law.
Additional text
The book will be useful for similar reasons to Australian practitioners and judges, especially because in the areas of law addressed Australian authority is often thin and English authority persuasive.
