Understanding the Law of Obligations

Andrew Burrows is Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hugh's College.

• Dividing the law of obligations; solving the problem of concurrent liability; understanding the law of restitution - a map through the thicket; free acceptance and the law of restitution; restitution - where do we go from here?; in defence of tort; legislative reform of remedies for breach of contract; improving contract and tort - the view from the Law Commission.

Andrew Burrows collection mirrors his broad interests in and undogmatic approach to all aspects of basic private law: contract, tort and restitution receive about equal treatment. Stephen A. Smith University of Toronto Law Journal January 2001 [These essays], all concerned with various aspects of contract, tort and unjust enrichment, are a pleasure to peruse, and a distinct cut above the usual lacklustre collection of past triumphs now beyond their sell-by date. Without exception they are both topical and relevant: ...together they form a readable, scholarly and eclectic mixture of exposition and polemic, of speculation and analysis. Andrew Tettenborn Cambridge Law Journal January 2001 This is a fascinating and thought-provoking collection of eight essays Taken together they represent a coherent and compelling exposition of the English law of obligations One is left with the picture of an [author]... who remains a devotee of practical scholarship and the deductive technique of the common law and has a grasp on its intricacies second to none. Edwin Peel Law Quarterly Review February 2003