The Classification of Obligations [Hardcover]

Respected legal scholar Peter Birks offers here a collection of papers concerned with the classification of obligations--a topical and important new area of discussion within the study of law. These essays combine practical and academic perspectives, highlighting contemporary trends in the law of obligations.

Editor's Preface
Table of Cases
One: Definition and Division: A Meditation onInstitutes,Peter Birks
Two: The Juridical Classification of Obligations,Ernest Weinrib
Three: Legal Classification as the Production of Knowledge Systems,Hugh Collins
Four: The Classification of Obligations and Legal Education,Nicholas McBride
Five: Basic Obligations,James Penner
Six: More than a Trace of the Old Philosophy,Jeffrey Hackney
Seven: Patterns of Fusion,Joshua Getzler
Eight: A New `Seascape' for Obligations: Reclassification on the Basis of Measure of Damages,Jane Stapleton
Nine: Is there a Future for International Torts?,David Howarth
Ten: Private Law, Economic Rationality and the Regulatory State,Simon Deakin