Monthly Archives: February, 2025
Richard Wright, ‘Causation and Legal Responsibility’
ABSTRACT In part 1 of this article, published in the CTLA Forum Winter 2025 at pages 18-22, 40-45, I discuss the substantial confusion regarding the required elements for tort liability caused by the Connecticut courts’ and the first and second Restatements’ lumping together the actual causation and scope of liability elements under the question-begging and […]
Ho and Harding, ‘A Commitment Theory of Express Trusts’
ABSTRACT In this article, we present a theory of express trusts as the embodiment of a legal form that enables a distinctive sort of commitment. We begin by exploring the importance of commitments in moral life guided by the value of autonomy before arguing that facilitative private law is normatively desirable in a liberal society […]
Dagan and Van Houweling, ‘Reconstructing Copyright Reversion: Releasing Authors from Their Own Dead Hands’
ABSTRACT This Article presents a novel reconstruction of the reversionary rights that copyright law grants to authors through mechanisms including the termination of transfer provisions of the US Copyright Act. These rights, which allow authors to reclaim copyrights they have licensed or sold under specified circumstances, have a long pedigree but a mixed reputation. They […]
Twigg-Flesner and Howells, ‘Adapting Consumer Law to New Technologies’
ABSTRACT The task for this chapter is to examine how well consumer law is able to adapt to the use of new technologies in consumer-focused applications. Our central thesis is that a methodical approach is needed, comprising several steps and admitting different responses to different technological developments. The context for our discussion will be applications […]
SLS Seminar Series Program: Litigation against extractives: Anglia Ruskin University, 9-10 April 2025
Examine the role of litigation in holding extractive industries accountable for environmental degradation and human rights violations … (more, registration)
‘Call for papers: 3rd Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance (Aberdeen)’
The Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance of the University of Aberdeen is pleased to announce that it is now accepting submissions for the 3rd Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre for Private International Law which will take place online on 6 June 2025. Conference Theme: New Dimensions in Private International Law. Original […]
‘Can a non-discrimination law lens enrich our understanding of consumer vulnerability?’
How to protect vulnerable consumers is one of the key issues of our time. The European ideal of a well-informed, observant and circumspect consumer that can reap the benefits of the integrated market made it necessary to recognise the needs of specifically vulnerable consumers. However, while EU strategic papers recognise the personal, situational and socio-economic […]
Yale-Toronto Private Law Theory Discussion Group, Annual Workshop, 7 March 2025
The Private Law Theory Discussion Group is a joint initiative between the Center for Private Law at Yale Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. The workshop aims to provide a forum for established and early career scholars to present their in-progress work in private law theory to an audience of students […]
Call for Papers: Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal conference, Vancouver, 19-20 February 2026
The Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal is inviting paper proposals for a conference, to be held February 19-20, 2026 at the Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. We invite paper proposals on any theme having to do with Estates, Trusts or Pensions. Here follows a non-exclusive list of potential topics, divided into broader […]
Hayden and Bodie, ‘The Problem of Purpose in Corporate Law’
ABSTRACT For the last half century, shareholder primacy has reigned as the dominant definition of corporate purpose, as to both the purpose of individual companies and corporate law more generally. Recently, however, the Business Roundtable, the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law: Corporate Governance, and many business and legal academics have developed new answers […]