Comparative Reflections in Private Law

Marco Cappelletti is a Tutorial Fellow in Law at Worcester College, University of Oxford. His research interests lie in private law, particularly tort law and tort theory, and in comparative law. He is author of Justifying Strict Liability: A Comparative Analysis in Legal Reasoning (OUP), which received the Canada Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law in 2022. His current research explores foundational aspects of private law, including the justifications for vicarious liability, the concept of foreseeability, the doctrine of remoteness of damage, and the different standards of liability in the context of accidental harm.Ciara Kennefick is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and Official Student (Tutorial Fellow) in Law at Christ Church, Oxford. She also holds a Visiting Professorship at Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, and a Visiting Fellowship at the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law at the University of Stockholm. Her research examines private law from comparative and historical perspectives. She is particularly interested in the just price in contracts, an idea which is derived from Roman law. In 2020, she was awarded the Selden Society's David Yale Prize 2019 for her research on the legal history of England and Wales.Dorota Leczykiewicz is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and Official Fellow in Law at St Peter's College. Her research focuses on judicial reasoning, comparative tort law and EU constitutional and private law. Dr Leczykiewicz's most recent work has concerned comparison between English and French tort law, EU tort law, theorising judge-made law, evaluating the reasoning of the Court of Justice of the EU, the use of general principles in EU law, and horizontality of EU fundamental rights. In 2021-2024 she was Associate Dean for Graduate Studies (Taught Courses) in the Oxford Faculty of Law.

• 1: John Bell: Pragmatism in French Law: The Case of Mistake 2: Michele Graziadei: A Dangerous Method: Genealogy in the Interpretation of Contracts 3: John Cartwright: Remedies for Defects in the Formation of a Contract: Learning by Comparing 4: Solène Rowan: Performance, Reasonableness, and Proportionality: English and French Remedies Law 5: Yves-Marie Laithier: The Impact of Illegality in French Contract Law: A Reflexive Endeavour 6: Hugh Beale: Doctrines of Change of Circumstances, Covid-19, and Special Measures 7: Dorota Leczykiewicz: Violation of a Right and Tort Law 8: Marco Cappelletti: Foreseeability in the Law of Torts: A Comparative Analysis 9: Jean-Sébastien Borghetti: Justifying the Denial of Compensation for Pure Economic Loss 10: Matthew Dyson: A 'Pilfered Ginger': Tort Claims for Harm Caused by Products Involving Illegality 11: Pietro Sirena: The Subsidiarity of Unjustified Enrichment 12: Barbara Pozzo: Harmonizing Contract Law without a Common Terminology: Comparative Law Perspectives