Contents:
1. Rights and Private Law Donal Nolan and Andrew Robertson;
2. Rights in Private Law Peter Cane;
3. Our Most Fundamental Rights Allan Beever;
4. Social Purposes, Fundamental Rights and the Judicial Development of Private Law Francois du Bois;
5. Rights and Other Things Robert Stevens;
6. Beyond 'Right' and 'Duty': Lundstedt's Theory of Obligations TT Arvind;
7. Of Rights Superstructural, Inchoate and Triangular: The Role of Rights in Blackstone's Commentaries Helge Dedek;
8. Rule-Based Rights and Court-Ordered Rights Stephen A Smith;
9. Rights and Responsibility in the Law of Torts John CP Goldberg and Benjamin C Zipursky;
10. Damages and Rights Andrew Burrows;
11. Explaining the Inexplicable? Four Manifestations of Abuse of Rights in English Law JW Neyers;
12. Rights and the Basis of Tort Law Nicholas J McBride;
13. Is the Role of Tort to Repair Wrongful Losses? Gregory C Keating;
14. The Edges of Tort Law's Rights Roderick Bagshaw;
15. Rights, Pluralism and the Duty of Care Andrew Robertson;
16. 'A Tort Against Land': Private Nuisance as a Property Tort Donal Nolan;
17. Private Nuisance Law: A Window on Substantive Justice Richard W Wright;
18. Rights and Wrongs: An Introduction to the Wrongful Interference Actions Sarah Green;
19. Misfeasance in a Public Office: A Justifiable Anomaly within the Rights-Based Approach? Erika Chamberlain;
20. Unjust Enrichment, Rights and Value Ben McFarlane;
21. Rights and Value in Rescission: Some Implications for Unjust Enrichment Elise Bant