Private Law Theory

Standing in Private Law: Powers of Enforcement in the Law of Obligations and Trusts. By Timothy Liau. [Oxford University Press, 2023. xxxvi + 324 pp. Hardback £110.00. ISBN 978-0-19286-966-1.] Dr. Timothy Liau’s Standing in Private Law explores – as its title suggests – the nature of ‘standing’ in private law, as well as the content of and justification for private law’s standing rules. It offers a much-needed examination of what has traditionally been a neglected issue in private law scholarship. While scattered outposts of standing in private law have been charted in some detail, such as in company law and the tort of nuisance, the subject as a systematic whole has never received direct attention. Liau’s project is, therefore, a novel and ambitious one: to carve out space for ‘standing’ as a ‘distinct and separable private law concept’ (p 2). The result is a meticulous and scholarly work which ought to be read carefully by anyone with a practical or academic interest in the law of remedies ….

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Alexander Georgiou, Review of Standing in Private Law: Powers of Enforcement in the Law of Obligations and Trusts by Timothy Liau, Cambridge Law Journal, volume 83, issue 1, March 2024, pp 184. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197324000084.