Themes in Comparative Law In Honour of Bernard Rudden

Compiled in honour of Bernard Rudden, this is a book of essays in comparative law centering on the contribution which comparative analysis can make to the core subjects of private law, namely property and obligations. The essays are contributed by leading academics from all over the world, all of whom owe an intellectual debt to the honorand.

1 - Stare Decisis in Civil-Law Countries: The Last Bastion
2 - Alterity: About Rules, For Example
3 - Comparative Law and the Legal Mind
4 - Property - Rights in Rem or Wealth?
5 - Primary Rights and Rights in Rem
6 - Property and Legal Culture in France
7 - Are Intangible Assets Fungible?
8 - The Origin of Riparian Rights
9 - Tuttifrutti
10 - Comparative Unjust Enrichment
11 - Defects of Consent and Security of Contract: French and English Law Compared
12 - Ius cogens, ius dispositivum and the Law of Personal Work Contracts
13 - Formation of Contracts on the Internet
14 - The Reformulation of Contractual Formality
15 - Les Limites d'un Droit Europeen du Travail
16 - Should Europe Codify Trust?
17 - Insurance Law in Post-Soviet Russia
18 - Modernising the German Law of Obligations

Peter Birks is Regius Professor of Civil Law at All Souls College, Oxford Arrianna Pretto, is Fellow of Brasenose College