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Boston University Law Review – Volume 92 Number 3 - May 2012

SYMPOSIUM  - A CONFERENCE ON RESTITUTION AND UNJUST ENRICHMENT

 

 

TOPIC I: ISSUES OF RESTITUTION DOCTRINE

Restitution of Mistaken Enrichments, Andrew Burrows

The Slayer Rule, Nili Cohen

Does the Dead Contract Rule Restitution from Its Grave?, Daniel Friedmann

Causation in Disgorgement, Mark P Gergen

Excess Baggage? Rethinking Risk Allocation in the Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, Helen Scott & Danie Visser

 

TOPIC II: THE AVAILABILITY AND JUSTIFICATION OF PROPERTY-BASED REMEDIES IN RESTITUTION

Why In re Omegas Group Was Right: An Essay on the Legal Status of Equitable Rights, Emily Sherwin

Legal Epistemology in the Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, Lionel Smith

When and Why Does Unjustified Enrichment Justify the Recognition of Proprietary Rights?, Robert Stevens

 

TOPIC III: COMMON-LAW RESTITUTION AND PONZI SCHEMES

Common-Law Restitution and the Madoff Liquidation, Andrew Kull

Rethinking Ponzi-Scheme Remedies in and out of Bankruptcy, Saul Levmore

 

TOPIC IV: DEFENSES AND OBJECTIONS TO LIABILITY IN RESTITUTION

Is Unjust Enrichment Law an Officious Intermeddler?, Gerhard Dannemann

Change of Position: A Defence of Unjust Disenrichment, James Edelman

 

TOPIC V : THEORETICAL EXPLORATIONS OF UNJUST ENRICHMENT

Restitution and Relationships, Hanoch Dagan

The Reason to Reverse: Unjust Factors and Juristic Reasons, Mitchell McInnes

The Structure of Unjustness, Ernest J. Weinrib