Research Catalog

Title

Scholars of tort law / edited by James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan.

Publication

• Oxford ; London ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney : Hart, 2019.
• ©2019

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goudkamp, James, 1980-
• Nolan, Donal

Description

xviii, 401 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The publication of Scholars of Tort Law marks the beginning of a long overdue rebalancing of private law scholarship. Instead of concentrating on judicial decisions and academic commentary only for what that commentary says about judicial decisions, the book explores the contributions of scholars of tort law in their own right. The work of a selection of leading scholars of tort law from across the common law world, ranging from Thomas Cooley (1824-1898) to Patrick Atiyah (1931-2018), is addressed by eminent current scholars in the field. The focus of the contributions is on the nature of the work produced by each of the scholars in question, important influences on their work, and the influence which that work in turn had on thinking about tort law. The process of subjecting tort law scholarship to sustained analysis provides new insights into the intellectual development of tort law and reveals the important role played by scholars in that development. By focusing on the work of influential tort scholars, the book serves to emphasise the importance of legal scholarship to the development of the common law more generally"--

Subject

• Torts
• Law teachers
• torts
• Common law
• Development of law

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pioneers, consolidators and iconoclasts : the story of tort scholarship / James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan -- Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1824-1898) and Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) : the arc of American tort theory / John CP Goldberg and Benjamin C Zipursky -- Professor Sir Frederick Pollock (1845-1937) : jurist as mayfly / Robert Stevens -- Professor Sir John Salmond (1862-1924) : an Englishman abroad / Mark Lunney -- Professor Francis Hermann Bohlen (1868-1942) / Michael D Green -- Professor Sir Percy Winfield (1878-1953) / Donal Nolan -- Professor Leon Green (1888-1979) : word magic and the regenerative power of law / Jenny Steele -- Professor William Lloyd Prosser (1898-1972) / Christopher J Robinette -- Professor Fleming James Jr (1904-1981) / Guido Calabresi -- Professor John G Fleming (1919-1997) : 'a sense of fluidity' / Paul Mitchell -- Professor Patrick Atiyah (1931-2018) / James Goudkamp -- Mr. Tony Weir (1936-2011) / Paula Giliker -- Law, fact and process in common law tort scholarship / Peter Cane.

ISBN

• 9781509910571
• 1509910573
• 9781509952083 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781509910595 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781509910588 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019021088

OCLC

• ocn959876270
• 959876270
• SCSB-9545592

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library