Dear Nick,
Possibly others have already pointed this out, but I can think of at least
two further publications that could be added to your bibliography of Tony
Weir's works:
First, there is an essay, 'Il contratto inademptiuto: realtà e tradizione
del diritto contrattuale europeo', a paper delivered in September 1997 and
published by G.Giappichelli editore of Turin in a collection of conference
papers, pp.71-106, in which Tony began by taking Atiyah to task.
Secondly, there is a case note, 'Subrogation and Indemnity: A Note on
Morris v. Ford Motor Co. [1973] Q.B. 792', which Tony had privately printed
(I seem to recall that a relative was involved -- was it his brother???) in
1973. My dimming recollection -- and we did chuckle over the incident
several times over the years -- is that he had initially submitted the note
to the Cambridge Law Journal. Tony felt that the case was important. The
then editors rejected the note, I think, on the ground that they found it
far too long: they insisted on its being cut. Whatever the circumstances,
I do remember that Tony was simply incandescent. He therefore arranged for
the note to be privately printed and, to emphasise his sense of grievance,
he had a cover printed which exactly apes the pale-blue as well as the
fonts of the Cambridge Law Journal. In fact, the entire 'offprint', both
content and cover, are virtually being passed off as CLJ material. With
the passing of years Tony's account of the incident did mellow, but at the
time -- and he did distribute copies to all then members of our Faculty,
and doubtless to innumerable others, just to make the point -- he
considered himself a man wronged. The incident may also explain the
five-year hiatus in his CLJ case-note production between 1973 and 1978.
Sorry to be such a pedant, but I imagine that the episode, that in a way
was so typical of our friend, is now rather forgotten.
Ever,
Roderick
Dr Roderick Munday,
Peterhouse,
Cambridge CB2 1RD
Tel.: 01223-338200
--On 19 December 2011 18:06 +0000 Nick McBride <njm33@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Colleagues will be greatly saddened to hear that Tony Weir died in
> hospital last Tuesday. The acerbic brilliance of his writings on tort law
> and private law generally (both common law and civilian) has rarely been
> matched, and never surpassed. He was simply incapable of writing anything
> uninteresting. Below my signature is an incomplete list of his
> publications.
> Nick McBride
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> Books
> An Introduction to Tort Law, 2nd ed (Clarendon Law Series, 2006)
> A Casebook on Tort, 10th ed (Sweet & Maxwell, 2004)
> Economic Torts (Clarendon Press, 1997)
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> Articles
> 'Two great legislators' (2006) 21 Tulane European and Civil Law Forum 35
> 'All or nothing?' (2003-4) 78 Tulane Law Review 511
> 'Human rights and damages' (2001) 40 Washburn Law Journal 413
> 'English tort law seen from abroad' in Rider (ed), Law at the Centre:
> The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at Fifty (Kluwer, 1999)
> 'The staggering march of negligence' in Cane and Stapleton (eds), The
> Law of Obligations: Essays in Honour of John Fleming (OUP, 1998)
> 'Recovery in tort for economic loss' (1997) 94 British Insurance Law
> Association Journal 14
> 'Taking for granted - the ramifications of nemo dat' (1996) 49 Current
> Legal Problems 325
> 'Die Sprachen des europaischen Rechts. Eine skeptische Betrachtung'
> [1995] Zeitschrift fur Europaisches Privatrecht 368
> 'Errare humanum est' in Birks (ed), The Frontiers of Liability, Volume 2
> (OUP, 1994)
> 'Contracts in Rome and England' (1992) 66 Tulane Law Review 1615
> 'Friendships in the law' (1992) 6-7 Tulane Civil Law Forum 61
> 'Governmental liability' [1989] Public Law 40
> 'A strike against the law?' (1986) 46 Maryland Law Review 133
> 'Shields and swords' (1983) 7 Trent Law Journal 1
> (with Pierre Catala) 'Delict and torts: a study in parallel' (1962-3) 37
> Tulane Law Review 573 (Part I), (1963-4) 38 Tulane Law Review 221 (Part
> II), (1963-4) 38 Tulane Law Review 663 (Part III), (1964-5) 39 Tulane Law
> Review 701 (Part IV)
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> Casenotes
> 'Making it more likely vs making it happen' (2002) 61 Cambridge Law
> Journal 519
> 'The unwanted child' (2002) 6 Edinburgh Law Review 244
> 'The maddening effect of consecutive torts' (2001) 60 Cambridge Law
> Journal 237
> 'The unwanted child' (2000) 59 Cambridge Law Journal 238
> 'Down hill - all the way?' (1999) 58 Cambridge Law Journal 4
> 'Suicide in custody' (1998) 57 Cambridge Law Journal 241
> 'Clamping' (1996) 55 Cambridge Law Journal 423
> 'Swag for the injured burglar' (1996) 55 Cambridge Law Journal 182
> 'A damnosa hereditas?' (1995) 111 Law Quarterly Review 357
> 'Rylands v Fletcher reconsidered' (1994) 53 Cambridge Law Journal 216
> 'The case of the careless referee' (1993) 52 Cambridge Law Journal 376
> 'The polluter must pay - regardless' (1993) 52 Cambridge Law Journal 17
> 'Physician - kill thyself!' (1991) 50 Cambridge Law Journal 397
> 'Fixing the foundations' (1991) 50 Cambridge Law Journal 24
> 'Statutory auditor not liable to purchaser of shares' (1990) 49
> Cambridge Law Journal 212
> 'Rebuilding defective building law' (1989) 48 Cambridge Law Journal 12
> 'P pays X for the physical damage due to D's negligence' [1989] Lloyd's
> Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 1
> 'Liability for knowingly facilitating mass breaches of copyright' (1988)
> 47 Cambridge Law Journal 348
> 'The answer to Anns?' (1985) 44 Cambridge Law Journal 26
> 'Wrongful life - nipped in the bud' (1982) 41 Cambridge Law Journal 225
> 'The wages of the dead' (1981) 40 Cambridge Law Journal 20
> 'The Pearson Commission Report' (1978) 37 Cambridge Law Journal 222
> 'Doing good by mistake - restitution and remedies' (1973) 32 Cambridge
> Law Journal 23
> 'Local authority vs critical ratepayer - a suit in defamation' (1972) 30
> Cambridge Law Journal 238
> 'Discrimination in private law' (1966) 24 Cambridge Law Journal 165
> 'Tort, contract and bailment' (1965) 23 Cambridge Law Journal 186
> 'Chaos or cosmos? Rookes, Stratford and the economic torts' (1964) 22
> Cambridge Law Journal 225
> 'Liability for syntax' (1963) 21 Cambridge Law Journal 216
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> Book reviews
> Hoeflich, Roman and Civil Law and the Development of Anglo-American
> Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century (1999) 3 Edinburgh Law Review 398
> Cane, Anatomy of Tort Law; and Atiyah, The Damages Lottery (1998) 57
> Cambridge Law Journal 204
> Cane, Tort Law and Economic Interests (1991) 50 Cambridge Law Journal 551
> Frier, A Casebook on the Roman Law of Delict (1990) 49 Cambridge Law
> Journal 157
> Fleming, The Law of Torts, 7th ed (1989) 48 Cambridge Law Journal 152
> Birks (ed), New Perspectives in the Roman Law of Property: Essays for
> Barry Nicholas (1989) 48 Cambridge Law Journal 510
> Collins, The Law of Contract (1986) 45 Cambridge Law Journal 503
> Hart and Honore, Causation in the Law, 2nd ed (1985) 44 Cambridge Law
> Journal 477
> Honore, The Quest for Security; and Von Hippel, Der Schutz des
> Schwaecheren (1984) 43 Cambridge Law Journal 377
> Cheifetz, Apportionment of Fault in Tort Law (1982) 14 Ottawa Law Review
> 234
> Stair, The Institutions of the Law of Scotland (1982) 41 Cambridge Law
> Journal 183
> Deutch, Unfair Contracts (1978) 37 Cambridge Law Journal 344
> Waddams, Products Liability (1976) 35 Cambridge Law Journal 178
> Carter-Ruck, Libel and Slander; and Rubinstein (ed), Wicked, Wicked
> Libels (1973) 32 Cambridge Law Journal 150
> Coote, Exception Clauses (1965) 23 Cambridge Law Journal 301
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> Translations
> Bucher, England and the Continent: Distinguishing the Pecularities of
> English Common Law of Contract (Dike Books, 2009)
> Halperin, The French Civil Code (UCL, 2006)
> Zweigert and Koetz, An Introduction to Comparative Law, 3rd ed (OUP,
> 1998)
> Koetz and Flessner, European Contract Law, Vol I (Clarendon Press, 1998)
> Wieacker and Zimmermann, A History of Private Law in Europe, with
> Particular Reference to Germany (Clarendon Press, 1996)
> Grossfeld, The Strengths and Weaknesses of Comparative Law (OUP, 1990)
> Serick, Lipstein, and Riesenfeld, Securities in Movables in German Law:
> An Outline (Kluwer, 1990)
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