Product Description: Enrichment is key to understanding the law of unjust enrichment and restitution. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the concept of enrichment and its implications for restitutionary awards. The book argues that enrichment may be characterized as either factual or legal, and it explores the consequences of that distinction...read more

Product Description: This book examines the role of unjust enrichment in the contractual context, defined as contracts which are (a) terminated for breach, (b) subsisting, or (c) unenforceable. The book makes three claims in relation to the orthodox common law account of restitution (founded on unjust enrichment) in the contractual context...read more

Product Description: This book defines and explains the operation of the defense of change of position in Anglo-Australian law. It is a widely accepted view that the defense is a modern development, the first express recognition of which can be traced in England to the seminal decision of the House of Lords in Lipkin Gorman (a firm) v Karpnale Ltd...read more

Product Description: Peter Birks's tragically early death, and his immense influence around the world, led immediately to the call for a volume of essays in his honor by scholars who had known him as a colleague, teacher, and friend. One such volume, published in 2006, contained essays largely from scholars within England...read more

Product Description: There is dispute regarding the identity and existence of a loss-based defense in the law of unjust enrichment. Widely known as 'passing on', but better identified as 'disimpoverishment', this defense has generated confusion and disagreement across and within England, Australia, Canada, and the US...read more

Product Description: Presented here are six lectures on unjust enrichment by Peter Birks, a professor of civil law at the University of Oxford, given during his fellowship at the Victoria University of Wellington Law School. Argued is the concept that the spontaneous evolution of the law defies categorization into neat analytical boxes such as torts or contract and is rather derived from human interaction, reacting to such things as unjust enrichment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Increasingly, in both common law and civil law jurisdictions, lawyers are seeking to formulate a law of restitution that can provide a reliable remedy in unjust enrichment actions. This pursuit has generated renewed interest in how the law of obligations should be divided...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Restitution became increasingly important in the courts of the common law world during the 1990s and generated a great deal of attention and an explosion of literature on the foundations of the subject, its structure and underlying principles...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Dawson's study of the principles of unjust enrichment by theRoman law, the early French and German law, and the modernFrench and German law, will be of great interest tolibrarians, students, and researchers of comparative andforeign law. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)