Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Unjust Enrichment (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199567751)

This volume takes stock of the rapid changes to the law of unjust enrichment over the last decade. It offers a set of original contributions from leading private law theorists examining the philosophical foundations of the law. The essays consider the central questions raised by demarcating unjust enrichment as a separate area of private law - including how its normative foundations relate to those of other areas of private law, how the concept of enrichment relates to property theory, how the remedy of restitution relates to principles of corrective justice and what role mental elements should play in shaping the law.


Author: Robert Chambers
ISBN-10: 0199567751
ISBN-13: 9780199567751
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/17/2009
Pages: 450
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d

About the Author

Robert Chambers is Professor of Law at University College, London. He is the author of Resulting Trusts (OUP, 1997) and is currently writing a volume in the Clarendon Law series on Trusts law.
Charles Mitchell is Professor of Law at King's College, London. He is the author of The Law of Contribution and Reimbursement (OUP, 2003) and Subrogation, Law and Practice (OUP, 2007). He is currently writing a practitioner text on the law of unjust enrichment for OUP.
James Penner is Professor of Law at University College, London, specializing in the philosophy of property and private law. He is the author of The Idea of Property in Law (OUP, 1997) and The Law of Trusts (6th ed. OUP, 2008).