Name: The Laws of Restitution By Prof Robert Stevens (Professor of Private Law, Professor of Private Law, University of Oxford)
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The Laws of Restitution by Prof Robert Stevens (Professor of Private Law, Professor of Private Law, University of Oxford)

In The Laws of Restitution, Robert Stevens shows that there is no unified law of restitution or unjust enrichment. Instead, there are seven or eight different kinds of private law claim, depending on how you count them, which have nothing important in common one with another that have been grouped together by commentators. Few of these claims have anything to do with enrichment, and what is restituted differs between them. Like all private law claims, those gathered here concern (in)justice between individuals, but they have no further unity. Many of them are not based upon an agreement or a wrong, but that negative feature has no utility. Restitution or unjust enrichment' should cease to be discussed as unified areas of law. With close attention to caselaw and legislation, the work identifies and describes the various reasons for restitution that any properly constructed system of private law ought to recognise. It explains how the law of restitution relates to, and is bound up with, contract, torts, equity, and property law.

About Prof Robert Stevens (Professor of Private Law, Professor of Private Law, University of Oxford)

Professor Robert Stevens is the Herbert Smith Freehills Professor of English Private Law at the University of Oxford. Previously he was a Professor of commercial law at UCL, a lecturer in law at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Lady Margaret Hall. He is also a commercial barrister and has published widely on many aspects of private law, always seeking to show how the theory of academic law has practical relevance to the law as found in the courts. He is the author of Torts and Rights (OUP, 2007).

Foreword Preface Part I Introduction 1: Summary 2: Foundations Part II Unjustified Performance 3: Performance 4: Reversal 5: Theory 6: Practice Part III Conditional Performance 7: Conditions 8: Contract Part IV Intervention in Another's Affairs 9: Discharge 10: Necessity Part V Property and Trusts 11: Things 12: Equity: General 13: Equity: Restitution 14: Improvements Part VI Wrongdoing 15: Wrongs 16: Profits 17: Damages Part VII Countervailing Reasons 18: Defences 19: Illegality Part VIII Apologia 20: Conclusion

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The Laws of Restitution by Prof Robert Stevens (Professor of Private Law, Professor of Private Law, University of Oxford)

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Prof Robert Stevens (Professor of Private Law, Professor of Private Law, University of Oxford)

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Oxford University Press

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2023-02-09

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496

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The Laws of Restitution Prof Robert Stevens (Professor of Private Law, Professor of Private Law, University of Oxford)

The Laws of Restitution by Prof Robert Stevens (Professor of Private Law, Professor of Private Law, University of Oxford)

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The Laws of Restitution by Prof Robert Stevens (Professor of Private Law, Professor of Private Law, University of Oxford)

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