Description

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Through these studies on cont5ractr tort and restitution, Andrew Burrows provides a stimulating guide to the present shape and likely future development of the law of obligations.Having argued that one should distinguish contract, tort and restitution, while recognising concurrent liability between them, Burrows goes on to map out the law restitution and to annalyse the future direction of that newly-recognise subject. Tort is then defended against those who would seekk to abolish much of it. Looking through the eyes of the Law Commissioner charged with responsibility for recommending improvements to the law of obligations, the collection of essays is rounded off with a view of the main reforms needed in this central area of civil justice.

About the Author

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Andrew Burrows, MA, DCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), FBA, Barrister and Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple is Professor of the Law of England in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College. He has been a Law Commissioner for England and Wales, a lecturer at the University of Manchester and Professor at University College, London. He is a Recorder, a Door Tenant of Fountain Court Chambers, London, and is currently President of the Society of Legal Scholars. His other books include Remedies for Torts and Breach of Contract, The Law of Restitution, and Understanding the Law of Obligations. He is a joint author of Anson' s Law of Contract, the general editor of English Private Law and an editor of Chitty on Contracts and Clerk and Lindsell on Torts.