The common law of obligations : divergence and unity /
"The development of the law of obligations across the common law world has been, and continues to be, a story of unity and divergence. Its common origins continue to exert a powerful stabilising influence, carried forward by a methodology that places heavy weight on the historical foundations o...
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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hart Publishing,
2016.
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| Summary: | "The development of the law of obligations across the common law world has been, and continues to be, a story of unity and divergence. Its common origins continue to exert a powerful stabilising influence, carried forward by a methodology that places heavy weight on the historical foundations of legal principles. Divergence is, however, produced by numerous factors, including national and international human rights instruments, local statutory regimes, civil law influences, regional harmonisation, local circumstances and values and different political and legal cultures. The essays in this collection explore the forces that produce divergence, the countervailing forces that generate cohesion and consistency in the common law of obligations, and the influence that the major common law jurisdictions continue to exert over one another in this area of law. The chapters in this book were originally presented at the Seventh Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations held in Hong Kong in July 2014. A second collection, entitled Divergences in Private Law (ISBN: 9781782256601), will focus on particular departures from the common law mainstream and the causes and effects of those deviations."--Bloomsbury Publishing |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781782256588 178225658X 9781782256595 1782256598 9781782256571 1782256571 178225627X 9781782256274 1782256288 9781782256281 1782256296 9781782256298 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 4, 2016). |