Insurance and the Law of Obligations

The insurance industry has a significant impact on the operation of private law, yet remains poorly understood and under-theorized in the legal literature. Filling an important gap, this book analyses the interaction of insurance law and the general law of obligations, in theory and practice.

Rob Merkin, Professor of Law, University of Exeter; Consultant, Norton Rose Fulbright,Jenny Steele, Professor of Law, York Law School, University of York

Rob Merkin is Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Exeter, Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Auckland, and a consultant to international law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. He is the author of over 40 books on insurance, reinsurance, and arbitration, and lectures on insurance and reinsurance law at universities worldwide. He is co-editor of the Lloyd's Law Reports and the editor of Insurance Law Monthly, the Journal of Business Law, and the British Insurance Law Association Journal. From 2006 to 2010, Rob was a co-editor of Legal Studies. Rob was President of the British Insurance Law Association 2010-2012 and has been Vice-President of the International Association of Insurance Law since 2010. In 2010 he was awarded a prize by the Australian Insurance Law Association for his contribution to the development of insurance law in Australia, and in 2012 he was awarded the Hotung Fellowship by the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, for work on earthquake insurance.

Jenny Steele is a Professor of Law at York Law School, University of York. She is the author of Tort Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (OUP, 2nd ed. 2010); and Risks and Legal Theory (Hart, 2004), and is a contributing editor to Clerk and Lindsell on Torts (from the 20th edition). She edited Law in Environmental Decision-Making (OUP, 1995), with Tim Jewell, and is editor, with Willem van Boom, of a collection of essays entitled Mass Justice: Challenges of Representation and Distribution (Edward Elgar, 2011) and, with TT Arvind, of Tort Law and the Legislature: Common Law, Statute, and the Dynamics of Legal Change (Hart, 2012). She is the holder of a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, Liability, Insurance and Society.