Table of contents
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ;
INTRODUCTION ;
THE ENGLISH LAW OF UNJUST ENRICHMENT AND RESTITUTION ;
1. The Evolution of the Species ;
GENERAL CONCEPTS ;
2. Absence of Basis: The New Birksian Scheme ;
3. Three Enrichment Issues ;
4. Some Thoughts on Change of Position ;
5. The Role of Fault in the Law of Restitution ;
6. Subrogation: Persistent Misunderstandings ;
7. Tracing ;
8. Gain-Based Damages and Compensation ;
SOME PARTICULAR UNJUST FACTORS ;
9. Unlawful Statutes and Mistake of Law: Is There a Smile on the Face of Schrodinger's Cat? ;
10. The Further Travails of Duress ;
11. Undue Influence: Beyond Impaired Consent and Wrong-Doing Towards a Relational Analysis ;
12. Unjust Enrichment, Discharge for Breach, and the Primacy of Contract ;
PROPERTY, INSOLVENCY AND RESTITUTION ; 13. Resulting Trusts ;
14. Jones v Jones: Property or Unjust Enrichment? ;
15. Unjust Delivery ;
16. The Avoidance of Transactions in Insolvency Proceedings and Restitutionary Defences ;
THE COMPARATIVE LAW OF UNJUST ENRICHMENT AND RESTITUTION ;
17. Restitution after Termination for Breach of Contract: German Law after the Reform of 2002 ;
18. No Basis: A Comparative View ;
19. Unjust Enrichment as Absence of Basis: Can English Law Cope? ;
20. The Fallacy of 'Restitution for Wrongs' ;
21. Peter Birks and Scots Enrichment Law
; ROMAN LAW ;
22. What Did Damnum Iniuria Actually Mean? ;
23. The Romanization of Spain: The Contribution of City Laws in the Light of the Lex Irnitana ;
24. Absent Parties and Bloody-Minded Judges ;
25. 'You Can Never Tell with Bees': Good Advice from Pooh for Students of the Lex Aquilia ;
26. Law Arrivals: The Appendix in Justinian's Digest Reconsidered ;
27. Logic and Experience in Roman Law ;
28. Unjust Enrichment: The Tenant's Tale ;
LEGAL HISTORY ;
29. Bezoar Stones, Gall Stones and Gem Stones: A Chapter in the History of the Tort of Deceit ;
30. Denials Ancient and Modern, with some Roman Footnotes ;
31. Rumford Market and the Genesis of Fiduciary Obligations ;
32. Slavery and the Roman Law of Evidence in Eighteenth-Century Scotland ;
33. Sir William Jones and the Nature of Law ;
THE PUBLICATIONS OF PETER BIRKS 1969 - 2005