Exploring Private Law

Exploring Private Law presents a collection of essays, by leading scholars from across the world, on private law doctrines, remedies, and methods. The overarching purpose of the collection, inspired by recent debate, is to celebrate and illustrate the contribution that both 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' methods of reasoning make to the development of private law. With that purpose in mind, the contributors to the collection explore a range of topics of current interest: judicial approaches to 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' methods
teaching trusts law
the protection of privacy in private law
the development of the law of unjust enrichment
the private law consequences of theft
equity's jurisdiction to relieve against forfeiture
the nature of fiduciary relationships and obligations
the duties of trustees
compensation and disgorgement remedies
partial rescission
the role of unconscionability in proprietary estoppel
and the nature of registered title to land.