Overview
Private law governs our most pervasive relationships with other people: the wrongs we do to one another, the property we own and exclude from others' use, the contracts we make and break, and the benefits realized at another's expense that we cannot justly retain. The major rules of private law are well known, but how they are organized, explained, and justified is a matter of fierce debate by lawyers, economists, and philosophers. Ernest Weinrib made a seminal contribution to the understanding of private law with his first book, The Idea of Private Law. In it, he argued that there is a special morality intrinsic to private law: the morality of corrective justice. By understanding the nature of corrective justice we understand the purpose of private law - which is simply to be private law. In this book Weinrib takes up and develops his account of corrective justice, its nature, and its role in understanding the law. He begins by setting out the conceptual components of corrective justice, drawing a model of a moral relationship between two equals and the rights and duties that exist between them. He then explains the significance of corrective justice for various legal contexts: for the grounds of liability in negligence, contract, and unjust enrichment; for the relationship between right and remedy; for legal education; for the comparative understanding of private law; and for the compatibility of corrective justice with state support for the poor. Combining legal and philosophical analysis, Corrective Justice integrates a concrete and wide-ranging treatment of legal doctrine with a unitary and comprehensive set of theoretical ideas. Alongside the revised edition of The Idea of Private Law, it is essential reading for all academics, lawyers, and students engaged in understanding the foundations of private law.
Full Product Details
Author: Ernest J. Weinrib (Cecil A. Wright Professor of Law, Cecil A. Wright Professor of Law, University of Toronto)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.70cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.30cm
Weight: 0.552kg
ISBN: 9780199660650
ISBN 10: 0199660654
Pages: 366
Publication Date: 04 August 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
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. John C. P. Goldberg, Eli Goldston Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
`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.' John C. P. Goldberg, Eli Goldston Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Author Information
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.
