| From: | Donald Macdonald <d.r.macdonald@dundee.ac.uk> |
| To: | Jason Neyers <jneyers@uwo.ca> |
| obligations@uwo.ca | |
| Date: | 04/11/2013 22:31:06 UTC |
| Subject: | ODG: that snail again - essays |
ODG members might like to know that the latest bumper issue (2013:3; 500 pp) of the (Scottish) Juridical Review is devoted entirely to papers given at a conference about Donoghue v Stevenson in 2012. Contributors range from Australia to Canada, and perhaps further afield.
I note that one contributor (I forget who) quotes a Scots student of his as saying that no self-respecting Glaswegian would think of drinking ginger beer with ice cream. From the nation that gave us the deep-fried Mars Bar (admittedly a more recent invention), that may be debatable.
Happy reading
Ross Macdonald (School of Law, University of Dundee)
From: Jason Neyers [mailto:jneyers@uwo.ca]
Sent: 02 November 2013 11:16
To: obligations@uwo.ca
Subject: ODG: Interesting New Article
Dear Colleagues:
Many of you will be interested in a new article by Mark Gergen, entitled "Negligent misrepresentation as contract" 101 Cal. L. Rev. 953-1011 (2013). The Article challenges the prevailing view which classifies the claim of negligent misrepresentation as a tort. Instead it argues that negligent misrepresentation is best understood as a contractual claim akin to promissory estoppel, with the gist of both claims being invited reliance (http://www.californialawreview.org/articles/negligent-misrepresentation-as-contract).
There is much discussion of the work of ODGers such as Stephen Smith, Peter Benson, Rob Stevens, John Goldberg and Ben Zipursky.
Happy Reading,
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Jason Neyers
Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
Western University
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(519) 661-2111 x. 88435