Private Law in the 21st Century.

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Table of Cases -- Table of Legislation -- Table of Contributors -- Part I: Agendas and Predictions -- 1 -- Private Law as a Complex System: Agendas for the Twenty-First Century -- I. Introduction: The State of Instability -- II. Overview -- III. General Challenges -- IV. Statutes, Codes and the Role of the Common Law -- V. Complex Systems and Interactions -- VI. New Remedies, Technologies and Intangible Interests -- VII. Process Challenges and the Privatisation of Justice -- VIII. Conclusions -- 2 -- Challenges for Private Law in the Twenty-First Century -- I. Introduction -- II. Keeping Private Law Alive and Thriving in the Universities -- III. The Non-Accessibility of the Common Law: Restatements? -- IV. Conclusion -- 3 -- Rationalising Tort Law for the Twenty-First Century -- I. Introduction -- II. Three Proposals to Rationalise the Law of Tort -- III. In Place of a Conclusion -- 4 -- The Challenges of Private Law: A Research Agenda for an Autonomy-Based Private Law -- I. The Task -- II. Autonomy-Based Private Law -- III. Internal Challenges -- IV. Concluding Remarks -- 5 -- The Steaming Lungs of a Pigeon": Predicting the Direction of Australian Contract Law in the Next 25 Years -- I. Does Contractual Codification Have a Future in Australia? -- II. Contract Doctrine: "Fair Go" or "Far to Go"? -- III. Digging Around the Taproot of the Common Law Tree -- IV. Contract Law: Old Wine in Old Bottles? -- Part II: Legislation, Codification and theRole of the Common Law -- 6 -- Codification of Private Law: Scots Law at the Crossroads of Common and Civil law -- I. Introduction -- II. What Is Codification? -- III. For Codification -- IV. Against Codification -- V. Codification in the Context of the Mixed Legal System of Scotland -- VI. What Might a Scottish Civil Code Look Like?.

VII. How Practical Would Codification Be? -- VIII. What Should Happen to the Doctrine of Precedent? -- IX. Comparative Codified Models -- X. Conclusions -- 7 -- Power Failure? The Distracting Effect of Legislation on Common Law Torts -- I. Introduction -- II. No Duty to Care: McKenna in the High Court -- III. Weeds, Seeds and Dirty Deeds: Statutory Regulation of GMO and Organic Farming, and Implications for Third Parties: Marsh v Baxter -- IV. Section 18C of The Racial Discrimination Act-a Clayton"s Defamation Claim? -- V. Conclusion -- 8 -- Constructive Trusteeship: The Perils of Statutory Formulae -- I. Constructive Trusts in the Marshall Islands -- II. The Roles of Statute Law -- III. The Disgorgement Theory Perpetuated? -- Part III: Complex Systems and Interactions -- 9 -- Fusing the Equitable Function in Private Law -- I. The Equitable Function -- II. Carrying Fusion Too Far -- III. Implications -- IV. Conclusion -- 10 -- Dealing with Complexity: Different Approaches to Explaining Accessory Liability -- I. Introduction -- II. The Framework for Accessory Liability in Accessories in Private Law -- III. Alternative Approaches: Davies" Accessory Liability -- IV. Conduct and Causation -- V. Knowledge -- VI. Some Detrimental Consequences of a Single Cause of Action Approach -- VII. Conclusion -- 11 -- The Challenges Presented by Fundamental Rights to Private Law -- I. The Turn Towards Fundamental Rights -- II. Three Challenges Posed by the Constitutionalisation of Private Law -- III. The Response of Indirect Effect -- IV. Indirect Effect in Practice -- V. Conclusion -- 12 -- The Limits of Technocracy: Private Law"s Future in the Regulatory State -- I. Private Law and the Regulatory Jurisdiction -- II. Technocracy and Private Law: Differentiating Two Models -- III. The Limits of the Regulatory State: The Case of Financial Markets.

IV. Reshaping Private Law: Towards a Standard of Enlightened Morality? -- 13 -- Common Law and the Constraint of Financial Markets: Credit Rating Agencies as a Test Case -- I. Credit Rating Agencies: From Expertise to Monopoly Power -- II. Liability in the Anglo-Commonwealth Common Law -- III. Re-regulation in the EU and UK-in whose interests? -- 14 -- Apologies as "Canaries"-Tortious Liability in Negligence and Insurance in the Twenty-First Century -- I. Introduction -- II. The Relationship Between Tort Law and Insurance -- III. Insurance Contracts, Apologies and Admissions -- IV. Applying the Apology-Protecting Legislation-a Balancing Act -- V. Bringing the Issues Together -- 15 -- When Lump Sums Run Out: Disputes at the Borderlines of Tort Law, Injury Compensation and Social Security -- I. Tort Damages and Social Security in Australia -- II. Study 1: Profiling Compensation Preclusion Appeals -- III. Why Do Lump Sums Run Out? -- IV. Study 2: Reasons for Compensation Dissipation -- V. Recent Reforms Through the Lens of Evidence on Dissipation -- VI. Conclusion -- Part IV: New Remedies, Technologiesand Intangible Interests -- 16 -- I"ll Perform If and When You Do": Non-Performance and the Suspension of Contractual Duties -- I. Introduction -- II. The Civil Law Approach: A Right of Suspension as of Course -- III. The Common Law and the Right of Suspension: The Traditional View -- IV. The Common Law: The Problems with the Traditional Position -- V. Conclusion -- 17 -- Vindicatory Damages -- I. Vindicatory Damages in the Academic Lexicon -- II. The Argument for Vindicatory Damages from Authority -- III. Why Do We Have Damages? -- IV. The Decline of Vindicatory Damages in Lumba -- V. Revisiting the Authorities with which I Began -- VI. Conclusion -- 18 -- Persuasive Technologies: From Loss of Privacy to Loss of Autonomy -- I. Introduction.

II. Transactions "in" Information -- III. Autonomy and Influence -- IV. Regulating Behaviour -- V. "Profiling" and Detecting Vulnerabilities -- VI. Personalisation -- VII. Some Piecemeal Solutions -- VIII. Conclusion -- 19 -- Snooping: How Should Damages be Assessed for Harmless Breaches of Privacy? -- I. Introduction -- II. Jones v Tsige -- III. Possible Bases on Which to Assess Damages -- IV. Conclusion -- 20 -- Compensating Injury to Autonomy: A Conceptual and Normative Analysis -- I. Introduction -- II. Three Types of Injury to Autonomy -- III. Constitutive Elements -- IV. Normative Justification -- V. Conclusion -- 21 -- Matter over Mind: Tort Law"s Treatment of Emotional Injury -- I. Introduction -- II. The Differential Treatment of Emotional and Physical Harm in Legal Doctrine and Theory -- III. The Neuroscientific Challenge -- IV. Clarifying and Establishing the Right Reasons for the Differential Treatment: Defining Emotion in Tort Law -- V. Conclusion -- 22 -- The Interaction Between Defamation and Privacy -- I. Introduction -- II. Why Explore the Interaction Between Defamation and Privacy? -- III. Interlocutory Injunctions for Defamation and Privacy -- IV. Vindication of Reputation and Protection of Privacy -- V. False Privacy -- VI. Qualified Privilege and Fair Comment -- VII. Conclusion -- 23 -- Making Amends by Apologising for Defamatory Publications: Developments in the Twenty-First Century -- I. Introduction -- II. Remedial Outcomes for Defamation: Alternatives to Damages2 -- III. Legal Principles that Encourage Apologies in Response to a Defamatory Publication -- IV. Defences Involving Apologies for Defamatory Publications -- V. The Offer to Make Amends-A Fair Balance? -- VI. Conclusions -- Part V: Process Challenges and the Privatisation of Justice -- 24 -- Tort and Neo-liberalism -- I. The Growth of the Claims Market.

II. Constraining the Claims Market -- III. Conclusion -- 25 -- Reforming Australian Litigation Lawyers: Educational Impacts of Civil Procedural Laws and Judicial Activism -- I. Introduction -- II. Slaying the Costs and Delay Beast -- III. A Change in the Australian Approach to Civil Justice -- IV. The Problem of Efficacy of Procedural Reform -- V. Judges" Role in Civil Justice Reform-One Side of the "Litigation Contract -- VI. Lawyers" Obligations in the Litigation Contract -- VII. Can, and Will, Lawyers Really Perform to their Side of the Litigation Contract? -- 26 -- Private Law in the Age of the "Vanishing Trial -- I. Introduction -- II. Methodology and Structure of the Analysis -- III. Evolution and Stability of Private Law Rules -- IV. Courts and the Development of Private Law -- V. Courts and Legal Certainty of Rules -- VI. Why Do We Need Courts? The "Vagueness" of Private Law Language -- VII. Concluding Remarks: Has Private Law Got a Public Side? -- Index.

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