I write with news of some other books that will be of interest to list members:

 

The Federation Press has published the second edition Ian Jackman’s book The Varieties of Restitution, an unjust enrichment-sceptic view of the common law of restitution. There are 19 years between the first and second editions.

http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=9781760021320

 

The Federation Press has also republished Paul Finn’s 1977 ground-breaking monograph Fiduciary Obligations, adding two of Finn’s most important essays (“The Fiduciary Principle” (1989) and “Fiduciary Reflections (2014)). As someone who has been scouring used book shops for decades for a copy of the original, this is good news indeed!

http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=9781760020774

This was published together with Finn’s Law: An Australian Justice, a collection of essays marking Paul Finn’s retirement.

http://www.federationpress.com.au/bookstore/book.asp?isbn=9781760020804

 

Finally, I can’t help but quote from a news story that I recently read, concerning the large number of home runs that have been hit this season in major league baseball.

“The widespread suspicion is that major-league baseballs – all of which are manufactured by hand in Costa Rica – have been altered to give them more coefficient of restitution. Essentially, more bounciness.”

 

The journalist, Cathal Kelly, who in my view writes rather well, also had this to say after quoting Rob Manfred, the Commissioner of Baseball, who is a Harvard Law graduate:

“ ‘Nothing about the baseball is materially different,’ he said this week. The man cannot help but insert a weasel word into every sentence. I suspect there may be a course on it at Harvard Law School.”

 

Globe and Mail, 19 Sept 2017

https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/sports/baseball/kelly-baseball-is-becoming-more-fun-why-cant-we-just-enjoy-it/article36308326/?ref=http://www.theglobeandmail.com&

 

May the new academic year begin well for everyone ..at least in those places where it is beginning or has recently begun!

 

Lionel