Warm congratulations to RDG members by Andrew Robertson and Tang Hang Wu, the editors of a newly-published collection of essays entitled The Goals of Private Law (Hart 2009; £85 / €110.50 / US$170 / CDN$170).

These are the papers from the Fourth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations, held at the National University of Singapore in July 2008, which a number of RDG members attended.

RDG members can order the book from Hart with a 20% discount by using the attached form. The book covers a whole range of private law topics, with Part V being particularly interesting for this list—the table of contents is below.

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1. Introduction: Goals, Rights and Obligations

Andrew Robertson

Part I—Private Law and Public Goals

2. The Mutually Constitutive Nature of Public and Private Law

Mayo Moran

3. What’s Private About Private Law?

William Lucy

Part II—Rights and Goals

4. The Role of Duty of Care in a Rights-Based Theory of Negligence Law

Stephen Perry

5. The Rights of Private Law

Stephen A Smith

6. The Conflict of Rights

Robert Stevens

7. Causation and the Goals of Tort Law

Donal Nolan

Part III—The Role of Goals in Private Law

8. Looking Outward or Looking Inward? Obligations Scholarship in the Early 21st Century

Steve Hedley

9. Treating Like Cases Alike: Principle and Classification in Private Law

Charlie Webb

10. Tort Law, Concepts and What Really Matters

Roderick Bagshaw

11. Constraints on Policy-Based Reasoning in Private Law

Andrew Robertson

Part IV—Community Welfare Goals in Private Law Doctrines

12. Negligent Investigation: Tort Law as Police Ombudsman

Erika Chamberlain

13. Deterrence in Private Law

Yock Lin Tan

14. JustifyingFiduciaryAllowances

Matthew Harding

15. Gain-Based Remedies and the Place of Deterrence in the Law of Fiduciary Obligations

Anthony Duggan

16. The Normative Foundations of Restitution for Wrongs: Justifying Gain-based Relief for Nuisance

Craig Rotherham

Part V—The Goals of Unjust Enrichment Law

17. Just and Unjust Enrichments

Hanoch Dagan

18. The Rules of Obligations

Emily Sherwin

19. Storytelling in the Law of Unjust Enrichment

Tang Hang Wu

20. Demolishing the Pyramid—the Presence of Basis and Risk-Taking in the Law of Unjust Enrichment

Graham Virgo