“John Murphy’s deep knowledge and incisive understanding of English tort law and scholarship are clearly on display in his latest book, The Province and Politics of the Economic Torts. Impressively, Murphy integrates detailed substantive analysis of a substantial portion of tort law with insightful discussion of the methodologies of tort scholarship. The book is full of surprises. One of the more striking is that scholarly identification of a set of causes of action as ‘economic torts’ occurred only in the middle of the last century (11-13). Since then, this set of torts has been the focus of a small but steady stream of reported cases, extra-judicial reflections and academic commentary …” (more)
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Peter Cane, ‘Murphy, John, The Province and Politics of the Economic Torts, Hart Studies in Private Law, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, 320 pp, hb £76.50′, Modern Law Review, https://doi-org.ucc.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/1468-2230.12754. First published 29 June.
First posted 2022-06-30 16:45:28
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