Private Law and Practical Reason: Essays on John Gardner's Private Law Theory is published by OUP

Private Law and Practical Reason: Essays on John Gardner's Private Law Theory, edited by Haris Psarras and our Fellow and Tutor in Law, Sandy Steel, has published in the Oxford University Press Oxford Private Law Theory series.

The contributions to this edited volume engage with John Gardner's philosophical work on private law. The content is divided into three parts. The first part gathers contributions on general theoretical issues that bear upon private law. The second part is concerned with Gardner's well-known views on responding to wrongs and the justification of reparative duties - an issue that spans all of private law. The third part turns to theoretical issues within particular areas of private law. Its focus is Gardner's focus: tort law, but it also includes chapters on contract law and equity.

This edited collection:

• Critically engages with the philosophy of private law of a leading analytic philosopher of the 21st century
• Examines how contemporary jurisprudence and the common law tradition respond to private law dilemmas with moral and political implications
• Sheds light on the shared normative foundations of tort law, contract law, and equity, in a manner that stresses the unity of private law
• Investigates the intersection of private law institutions with practical reason to contribute to our understanding of pivotal concepts in moral philosophy and legal theory, such as corrective justice, distributive justice, responsibility for wrongdoing, and reparative obligations

Congratulations to both editors on this publication!