"This book had its origins in the Fifth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations (Obligations V), which was co-hosted by the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and Melbourne Law School and was held at St. Anne's College, Oxford from 14-16 July 2010"--P. v.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Rights and private law / Donal Nolan and Andrew Robertson -- Rights in private law / Peter Cane -- Our most fundamental rights / Allan Beever -- Social purposes, fundamental rights and the judicial development of private law / Francois du Bois -- Rights and other things / Robert Stevens -- Beyond 'right' and 'duty' : Lundstedt's theory of obligations / TT Arvind -- Of rights superstructural, inchoate and triangular : the role of rights in Blackstone's Commentaries / Helge Dedek -- Rule-based rights and court-ordered rights / Stephen A Smith -- Rights and Responsibility in the law of torts / John CP Goldberg and Benjamin C Zipursky -- Damages and rights / Andrew Burrows -- Explaining the inexplicable? Four manifestations of abuse of rights in English law / JW Neyers -- Rights and the basis of tort law / Nicholas J. McBride -- Is the role of tort to repair wrongful losses? / Gregory C Keating -- The edges of tort law's rights / Roderick Bagshaw -- Rights, pluralism and the duty of care / Andrew Robertson -- 'A tort against land' : private nuisance as a property tort / Donal Nolan -- Private nuisance law : a window on substantive justice / Richard W Wright -- Rights and wrongs : an introduction to the wrongful interference actions / Sarah Green -- Misfeasance in a public office : a justifiable anomaly within the rights-based approach? / Erika Chamberlain -- Unjust enrichment, rights and value / Ben McFarlane -- Rights and value in rescission : some implications for unjust enrichment / Elise Bant.