This highly informative Advanced Introduction explores a range of private law theories, highlighting the ways in which they affect the legal building blocks of social life, with a particular focus on property, contracts and torts.
Hanoch Dagan analyses how these leading modern theories function in key social spheres, including the market, workplace, neighborhood and within close relationships. He investigates the contribution of private law theories across a variety of legal fields, such as work law and choice of law, demonstrating the ways in which private law theory can yield significant explanatory and reformist results. In light of rapid technological change, economic globalization and the rise of new forms of family and personal relations, this Advanced Introduction examines and answers emerging challenges and questions in the field.
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Scholars and students of law, particularly those interested in property, contracts, torts, private law and legal theory more broadly will greatly benefit from this valuable resource.
