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The Power & Limits of Private Law

This collection of legal essays draws upon the third Canadian Law of Obligations conference held in June 2022 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Publication Language: English
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Softcover | Approx. 500 pages

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Published: January 09, 2025
ISBN/ISSN: 9780433535812

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This collection of legal essays draws upon the third Canadian Law of Obligations conference held in June 2022 in Vancouver, British Columbia. It features scholarship of distinguished and emerging scholars from Canada and around the world. The contributions explore and critique the power and limits of the laws of torts/delict, contract and restitution through a range of theoretical, technical, policy-oriented and pragmatic perspectives. They grapple with contemporary issues and developments in Canadian law and society, advancing insights to shape both the theory and the practice of private law.

 

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 Introduction—Marcus Moore and Samuel Beswick

PART I: THE PURPOSIVENESS OF PRIVATE LAW
Chapter 1: A Solicitor Looks at the Law of Contracts—Angela Swan

Chapter 2: Of Power and Limits: Bargaining Power and the Limits of Private Law Regarding Non-Liability Clauses—Nathalie Vézina

Chapter 3: COVID-19 and the Limits of Contractual Frustration—Mitchell McInnes

Chapter 4: Models of Joint and Several Liability: Eadem causa obligandi and Responsibility for Another’s Debt in Common Law and Civil Law Traditions—Luigi Buonanno

Chapter 5: Fiduciary Obligations in the Expanding World of Data Trusts—Sofia Santinello

Chapter 6: Can a Moose Be a Party to a Contract? Nuanced Spaces for Indigenous Perspectives in Canadian Contract Law—Alan Hanna and Emmaline English

Chapter 7: Structural Barriers to Deterring Medical Harm in Canadian Medical Malpractice—Lachlan Deyong

PART II: THE POWER AND LIMITS OF CATEGORICAL THINKING IN PRIVATE LAW
Chapter 9: Keeping Taxonomy in its Place: Recent Canadian Experience with Unjust Enrichment—John D. McCamus

Chapter 10: The Power and Limits of Close Connection: Assessing the Legacy of Bazley v. Curry Through Three International Case Studies—Desmond Ryan

Chapter 11: Vicarious Liability: Policy, Rationales and its Limits—Aaron Yoong, Louis Lau Yi Hang, Chang Wen Yee

Chapter 12: The Regulatory Relevance and Legitimacy of Contract Law in Juxtaposition to Private Ordering—Bogna Kaczorowska

Chapter 13: The Open Casebook Revolution—Samuel Beswick and Maddison Zapach

Chapter 14: Corrective Justice and In Personam Rights: Reconsidering the Tort of Inducing Breach of Contract—Stéphane Sérafin and Kerry Sun

Chapter 15: Beyond the King’s Peace: Direct Interferences With the Person as Tortious Interferences with Autonomy—Margaret Isabel Hall

Chapter 16: Confusion, Illusion or Delusion: The Irreducible Core of the Common Law Trust—Lionel Smith

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