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OverviewIn this classic study, Alan Brudner investigates the basic structure of the common law of transactions. For decades, that structure has been the subject of intense debate between formalists, who say that transactional law is a private law for interacting parties, and functionalists, who say that it is a public law serving the collective ends of society. Against both camps, Brudner proposes a synthesis of formalism and functionalism in which private law is modified by a common good without being subservient to it. Drawing on Hegel's legal philosophy, the author exhibits this synthesis in each of transactional law's main divisions: property, contract, unjust enrichment, and tort. Each is a whole composed of private-law and public-law parts that complement each other, and the idea connecting the parts to each other is also latently present in each. Moreover, Brudner argues, a single narrative thread connects the divisions of transactional law to each other. Not a row of disconnected fields, transactional law is rather a story about the realization in law of the agent's claim to be a dignified end-master of its body, its acquisitions, and the shape of its life. Transactional law's divisions are stages in the progress toward that goal, each generating a potential developed by the next. Thus, contract law fulfils what is incompletely realized in property law, negligence law what is germinal in contract law, public insurance what is seminal in negligence law, and transactional law as a whole what is underdeveloped in public insurance. The end point is the limit of what a transactional law can contribute to a life sufficient for dignity.Reconfigured and expanded with a contribution by Jennifer Nadler, The Unity of the Common Law stands out among contemporary theories of private law in that it depicts private law as purposive without being instrumental and as autonomous without being emptily formal. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alan Brudner (Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science, Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science, University of Toronto)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Edition: 2nd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.584kg ISBN: 9780198812401ISBN 10: 019881240 Pages: 378 Publication Date: 06 July 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPart 1 1: The Crisis of Private Law 2: Private Law and Kantian Right Part 2 3: The Unity of Property Law 4: Reconstructing Contracts 5: Jennifer Nadler: Agency and Autonomy in Unjust Enrichment Law 6: Recovering Tort Law Part 3 7: Idealism and Fidelity to Law 8: The New Private LawReviewsBy translating the theoretical content of Hegel's Philosophy of Right into a modern idiom, by applying Hegel's political theory to the detail of modern common law doctrine, and by using that theory to critique and relativize the leading schools of legal theory in each of the main branches of law, Brudner has made an unrivalled contribution to legal theory. Peter Ramsay, London School of Economics and Political Science, Critical Analysis of Law The publication of a revised edition of Alan Brudner's The Unity of the Common Law deserves an intellectual celebration. Brudner's book is a tour de force of Hegelian jurisprudence. It offers a profound-and profoundly challenging-account of private law (or, as he calls it, transactional law) in its entirety as well as no less ambitious accounts of the nature of both adjudication and legal theory, and a harsh critique of both formalism and functionalism. Hanoch Dagan, Tel Aviv University, Critical Analysis of Law Author InformationAlan Brudner is Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Owl and the Rooster: Hegel's Transformative Political Science (Cambridge, 2017), Punishment and Freedom (Oxford, 2009), and Constitutional Goods (Oxford, 2004). He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2011. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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