Private Law Theory

Ben McFarlane, Chair in Law at UCL, will be hosted by the Private Law Discussion Group at Trinity College Dublin for a Public Lecture on Wednesday 10th February at 5pm in the Uí Chadhain Theatre, Arts Building on ‘The Structure of Private Law and the Role of Primary Liabilities’. Rules of contract, tort, and property are rightly seen as forming the core of private law. Such rules can be seen as recognising the primary duties that we may come under to each other. The function and justification of those rules may however depend on less prominent doctrines, often equitable in origin, that instead impose primary liabilities. The aim of the lecture is to consider the nature and role of such liabilities, by focussing on the place of unjust enrichment and estoppel in the structure of private law.

First posted 2016-02-03 21:28:41