Understanding the Law of Obligations: Essays on Contract, Tort and Restitution

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Through these studies of contract, tort and restitution, Andrew Burrows, provides a stimulating guide to the present shape and likely future development of the law of obligations.

Andrew Burrows, MA, BCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), FBA, Barrister and Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He was previously Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law in the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of St Hugh's College. Before returning to Oxford he was a Law Commissioner for England and Wales, a lecturer at the University of Manchester and Professor at University College, London. He lectures regularly for the Judicial Studies Board, is a Recorder on the South-Eastern Circuit and a Door Tenant of Fountain Court Chambers, London.

Andrew Burrows collection mirrors his broad interests in and undogmatic approach to all aspects of basic private law: contract, tort and restitution receive about equal treatment. -- Stephen A. Smith * University of Toronto Law Journal * [These essays], all concerned with various aspects of contract, tort and unjust enrichment, are a pleasure to peruse, and a distinct cut above the usual lacklustre collection of past triumphs now beyond their sell-by date. Without exception they are both topical and relevant: ...together they form a readable, scholarly and eclectic mixture of exposition and polemic, of speculation and analysis. -- Andrew Tettenborn * Cambridge Law Journal * This is a fascinating and thought-provoking collection of eight essays Taken together they represent a coherent and compelling exposition of the English law of obligations One is left with the picture of an [author]... who remains a devotee of practical scholarship and the deductive technique of the common law and has a grasp on its intricacies second to none. -- Edwin Peel * Law Quarterly Review *