“With customary penetrating wit, Alasdair MacIntyre observed that, if one collects ‘together four political theorists … the chances are that you will be presented with at least five rival interpretations of one and the same set of events’ (‘The Indispensability of Political Theory’ in D Miller and L Siedentop (eds), The Nature of Political Theory (Oxford 1983), 25). Things may be even worse with regard to theorists of private law, for four such theorists would likely generate at least eight interpretations of private law: the interpretation that each theorist favours and that with which they disagree. Even if this claim proves to be an exaggeration, there is still an ostensibly embarrassing fecundity with regard to theories or philosophies of private law …” (more)
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William Lucy, ‘The Right of Redress. By Andrew S Gold. [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2020. xv + 230 pp. Hardback £70.00. ISBN 978-0-198-81440-5.]’, Cambridge Law Journal, volume 81, issue 1, March 2022, pp 200-202, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008197322000149. Published online by Cambridge University Press 30 May.
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