Essays for Patrick Atiyah
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Book
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ISBN 10
0198254105
ISBN 13
9780198254102
Category
United Kingdom
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Publication Year
1991
Publisher
Pages
389 pages
Subject
Patrick Atiyah
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Abstract
"Patrick Atiyah is one of the most important legal scholars of his generation in the common law world. His publications cover a wide field: legal theory, legal history, the study of legal institutions, the law of tort (especially compensation for personal injuries) and, most famously perhaps, the law of contract. It is no exaggeration to say that by his work, Atiyah has opened up a new ways of thinking about the law of obligations." - Cover
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Contents:
Reflections on law in context / William Twining -- Are omissions less culpable? / Tony Honoré -- Scandinavian legal Legal realism in the law of contract / Jan Hellner -- Statutes and contracts as founts of formal reasoning / Robert S. Summers -- Conceptions of public policy / John Bell -- Aftermath / Paul D. Carrington -- The role of the judiciary: lessons from the end of empire / Robert Stevens -- The origins of futures trading in the Liverpool cotton market / A.W.B. Simpson -- Abstract payment undertakings / Roy Goode -- Pre-contractual duties of disclosure / S.M. Waddams -- Three problems with the new product liability / Jane Stapleton -- Evaluating the goals of personal injury law: some empirical evidence / Donald Harris -- Negligence and economic loss / John Dwyer -- Libel and constitutional free speech / John Fleming -- The basis of tortuous liability / Peter Cane.
Reflections on law in context / William Twining -- Are omissions less culpable? / Tony Honoré -- Scandinavian legal Legal realism in the law of contract / Jan Hellner -- Statutes and contracts as founts of formal reasoning / Robert S. Summers -- Conceptions of public policy / John Bell -- Aftermath / Paul D. Carrington -- The role of the judiciary: lessons from the end of empire / Robert Stevens -- The origins of futures trading in the Liverpool cotton market / A.W.B. Simpson -- Abstract payment undertakings / Roy Goode -- Pre-contractual duties of disclosure / S.M. Waddams -- Three problems with the new product liability / Jane Stapleton -- Evaluating the goals of personal injury law: some empirical evidence / Donald Harris -- Negligence and economic loss / John Dwyer -- Libel and constitutional free speech / John Fleming -- The basis of tortuous liability / Peter Cane.
Biblio Notes
"Patrick Selim Atiyah: a bibliography of his publications, 1954-1990": pages 375-361.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Categorized by subject, then editor, then date.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Categorized by subject, then editor, then date.
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