Private Law and Power

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5099-2972-6
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

The aim of this edited collection of essays is to examine the relationship between private law and power - both the public power of the state and the 'private' power of institutions and individuals. It describes and critically assesses the way that private law doctrines, institutions, processes and rules express, moderate, facilitate and control relationships of power. The various chapters of this work examine the dynamics of the relationship between private law and power from a number of different perspectives - historical, theoretical, doctrinal and comparative. They have been commissioned from leading experts in the field of private law, from several different Commonwealth Jurisdictions (Australia, the UK, Canada and New Zealand), each with expertise in the particular sphere of their contribution. They aim to illuminate the past and assist in resolving some contemporary, difficult legal issues relating to the shape, scope and content of private law and its difficult relationship with power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barker, Kit

Degeling, Simone

Fairweather, Karen

Grantham, Ross

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Issues
1. The Dynamics of Private Law and Power

Kit Barker

Part 2: Power, History and Society
2. Power, History and the Law of Contract in Eighteenth Century England

Warren Swain
3. Redressing Inequality in Personal Credit Transactions: 1700-1974

Karen Fairweather
4. Tort Law and Government Liability in the Administrative State

Peter Cane

Part 3: Doctrines, Institutions and Process
5. Property and Power: The Judicial Redistribution of Proprietary Rights

Craig Rotherham
6. Trustees' Powers and Social Justice

Matthew Harding
7. Undue Infl uence and the Spiritual Economy

Simone Degeling
8. A Public Law Tort: Understanding Misfeasance in Public Office

Donal Nolan
9. Public Power, Discretion and the Duty of Care

Kit Barker
10. The Legitimacy of the Company as a Source of (Private) Power

Ross Grantham
11. Reshaping Responsibility: The Emerging Private Law of Institutional Wrongs

Mayo Moran
12. Class Actions: Uses and Abuses of the Process of Courts

Justice Philip McMurdo

Über Autor(innen)

Grantham, Ross
Ross Grantham is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Photograph © The University of Queensland 2016

Barker, Kit
Kit Barker is Professor of Law at the TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland.

Photograph © The University of Queensland 2016

Degeling, Simone
Simone Degeling is Professor of Private Law in the University of New South Wales.

Fairweather, Karen
Karen Fairweather is Associate Lecturer in Law at the TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland.

Photograph © The University of Queensland 2016

Kit Barker is Professor of Private Law, Karen Fairweather is an Associate Lecturer and Ross Grantham is Professor of Commercial Law, all at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland.
Simone Degeling is Professor of Law at UNSW Australia.