The Common Law of Obligations: Divergence and Unity

ISBN 10: 1509921117 / ISBN 13: 9781509921119

Published by Hart Publishing, 2018

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pp. 376.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Common Law of Obligations: Divergence and Unity
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509921117
• ISBN 13: 9781509921119
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The development of the law of obligations across the common law world has been, and continues to be, a story of unity and divergence. Its common origins continue to exert a powerful stabilising influence, carried forward by a methodology that places heavy weight on the historical foundations of legal principles. Divergence is, however, produced by numerous factors, including national and international human rights instruments, local statutory regimes, civil law influences, regional harmonisation, local circumstances and values and different political and legal cultures. The essays in this collection explore the forces that produce divergence, the countervailing forces that generate cohesion and consistency in the common law of obligations, and the influence that the major common law jurisdictions continue to exert over one another in this area of law.
The chapters in this book were originally presented at the Seventh Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations held in Hong Kong in July 2014. A second collection, entitled Divergences in Private Law (ISBN: 9781782256601), will focus on particular departures from the common law mainstream and the causes and effects of those deviations.

About the Authors

Andrew Robertson is Professor of Law and Director of Studies in Private Law at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Michael Tilbury is a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School, formerly Kerry Holdings Professor in Private Law at the Faculty of Law in the University of Hong Kong.