Private Law Theory

Before we get too far into November, some friend of this blog should say a word about the third North American Workshop on Private Law Theory (‘NAWPLT’). NAWPLT is an annual workshop organized by Henry Smith, John Goldberg, Andrew Gold, Steve Smith and Paul Miller (McGill), and Dennis Klimchuk (Western Ontario). The NAWPLT organizers usually select eight or nine papers, diversified to cover each of the four major fields of private law: tort, contract, property, and restitution-plus-remedies. The papers are also diversified to show off a wide range of methodologies – analytical methods, different traditions of normative philosophy, and on occasion conceptually-respectful economic analysis … (more)

[Eric Claeys, New Private Law, 12 November]

First posted 2015-11-12 17:49:12