The works of Peter Birks upon the law of restitution and the law of equity are pervaded by a thesis of the vital nature of the consideration of the law as constitutive of a science, of the vital nature of the restraint from the application in the law of convictions of morality, and of a proposition of the application in the law of convictions of morality as anathema to justice.

The amorality of the law of restitution is its most disturbing deficiency.

Robert MacKenzie, LL.B. (Manch.)

C.C.: Professor Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law School