Exploring private law / edited by Elise Bant and Matthew Harding.

Cambridge ; New York ; Cambridge University Press, 2010.

1st edition

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Civil law.

1. Do top-down and bottom-up reasoning ever meet?

2. Internationalization or isolation : the Australian cul de sac? The case of contract law

3. The Australian law of restitution : has the High Court lost its way?

4. Privacy and private law : developing the common law of Australia

5. Towards legal pragmatism : breach of confidence and the right to privacy

6. Teaching trust law in the twenty-first century

7. The impact of legal culture on the law of unjustified enrighment : the role of reasons

8. Natural obligations and unjust enrichment

9. Casualty and abstraction in the common law

10. Trust and theft

11. What is left of equity's relief against forfeiture?

12. Contracts, fiduciaries and the primacy of the deal

13. Four fiduciary puzzles

14. Good faith : what does it mean for fiduciaries and what does it tell us about them?

15. Trustees' duties to provide information

16. The measurement of compensation claims against trustees and fiduciaries

17. Substitutability and disgorgement damages in contract

18. Unconstitutionability and proprietary estoppel remedies

19. Partial rescission : disentangling the seedlings but not transplanting them

20. Of horses and carts : theories of indefeasibility and categoy errors in the Torrens system.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780521764353

xliv, 481 p. : ill. ; 24 cm