Restitution: Past, Present and Future: Essays in Honour of Gareth Jones

by William Cornish (Editor), Richard C Nolan (Editor), Janet O'Sullivan (Editor), G J Virgo (Editor)

Overview

The essays in this volume are dedicated to Gareth Jones, the retiring Downing Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge. His contribution to legal scholarship has been immense, particularly in the fields of legal history, the law of trusts, charities law and, most famously, the law of restitution. The publication of the first edition of the Law of Restitution, which he co-authored with Lord Goff, stimulated a renaissance in the study of a subject which had previously lain dormant. The effect of its publication on English legal scholarship has been profound and enduring.



In these essays, written by a group of the world's leading restitution scholars, the opportunity is taken to conduct a fresh appraisal of the development of the subject - to look, in other words, at the past, present, and future of the law of restitution.



Contributors: John Baker, Peter Birks, Justice Finn, Roy Goode, Ewan McKendrick, Justice McLachlin, Sir Peter Millett, Lord Nicholls of Birkenhead, Richard Nolan, Janet O'Sullivan, Graham Virgo (as well as shorter contributions from invited commentators).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847316769
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/01/1998
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	497 KB

About the Author

W.R.Cornish is Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Magdalene College.

Richard Nolan is a Fellow of St John's College,Cambridge and a University Lecturer in Law.

Janet O'Sullivan is a University Lecturer in Law and a Fellow of Selwyn College Cambridge.

Graham Virgo is a Reader in Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.
William Cornish is a Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
Janet O'Sullivans Professor of Private Law and Vice Master and Director of Studies in Law at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, UK.


Photograph courtesy of University of Cambridge.
GJ Virgo is Professor of English Private Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge.


Photograph courtesy of University of Cambridge.

Editorial Reviews

[These essays] are written to a high general standard of scholarship and originality, and they aptly reflect Professor Jones' own distinguished contributions to the fields of trusts law, legal history, and the law of restitution.” —Trust Law International

“...this collection is the state of the art as far as the law of restitution is concerned and cannot be missed by anyone with an interest in the subject.... It is a fitting tribute indeed to the person who, along with Lord Goff of Chieveley (who has penned the preface), can justifiably be said to have created the subject in this country.” —Law Quarterly Review

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