Understanding Unjust Enrichment

✍ Scribed by Jason Neyers, Mitchell McInnes, Stephen Pitel

• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 430
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is a collection of articles based on Understanding Unjust Enrichment,a symposium held at the University of Western Ontario in January 2003. The articles, written from the perspective of English, Australian, Canadian, German and Jewish law, deal with numerous theoretical and practical issues that surround restitution and unjust enrichment. The articles outline recent developments across the Commonwealth, explain the unjust enrichment principle and its component parts, and address discrete issues such as tracing, choice of law, disgorgement damages for breach of contract, and the use of unjust enrichment in the cohabitation context. The contributors are Kit Barker, Peter Benson, Jeffrey Berryman, Michael Bryan, Andrew Burrows, Robert Chambers, Gerald Fridman, Peter Jaffey, Dennis Klimchuk, Thomas Krebs, John McCamus, Mitchell McInnes, Stephen Pitel, Stephen Waddams and Ernest Weinrib.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Foreword......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 13
1 Understanding Unjust Enrichment An Introduction......Page 15
2 The English Law of Restitution A Ten Year Review......Page 25
3 Unjust Enrichment Dis Contented......Page 49
4 Unjust Enrichment and Unconscionability in Australia A False Dichotomy......Page 61
5 Understanding the Unjust Enrichment Principle in Private Law A Study of the Concept and its Reasons......Page 93
6 Unjust Enrichment and Corrective Justice......Page 125
7 Two Theories of Unjust Enrichment......Page 153
8 Enrichment Revisited......Page 179
9 Planting Another’s Field Unrequested Improvements Under Jewish Law......Page 235
10 Unrequested Benefits in German Law......Page 261
11 Tracing and Unjust Enrichment......Page 277
12 Disgorgement for Breach of Contract and Corrective Justice An Analysis in Outline......Page 325
13 Characterisation of Unjust Enrichment in the Conflict of Laws......Page 345
14 Restitution on Dissolution of Marital and Other Intimate Relationships Constructive Trust or Quantum Meruit......Page 373
15 Legitimating ‘Legitimate Expectations’......Page 397
16 The Relation of Unjust Enrichment to Other Legal Concepts......Page 419
Index......Page 423