Rights and Private Law

This collection is a significant contribution to debate about the role of rights in private law. It includes essays by leading private law scholars addressing fundamental questions about the role of rights in private law as a whole and within particular areas of private law. The collection includes contributions by advocates and critics of rights-based approaches and provides a thorough and balanced analysis of the relationship between rights and private law. "If one is interested in the latest in private law theory in the corrective justice vein, this book is a must...Rights and Private Law is a powerful anthology about how rights-based thinking is influencing one prevalent strand of private law thinking." Erik S Knutsen, Canadian Business Law Journal, vol 54 2013.