Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence: Fourth Series (Oxford Essays Jurisprudence) - Hardcover

includes some important writings on contract and tort law. (Law Quarterly Review April 2001)

...the essays are thoughtful, careful, and lucid...Oxford Essays in Jurisprudecne,,,especially merits the attemtion of people who engage in teaching or research relating to the philosophy of private law. (Matthew H. Kramer Cambridge Law Journal)

The fourth collection of essays in this long-established series brings together some of the leading contributors to Oxford's course on the Philosophical Foundations of Common Law for the Bachelor of Civil Law. Key issues in contract, tort, and criminal law are subjected to philosophical scrutiny, as well as concerns, such as the significance of personhood (both natural and corporate) in law and legal theory. The aim of the book, like the aim of the course, is to make a major contribution to thinking about the common law, which can provide an exciting new basis for advanced teaching and further research.