Understanding Private Law: Essays in Honour of Stephen a Smith

This book engages with some of Stephen A Smith’s most significant arguments, illustrating that he was a towering figure in the field of private law, with little of the field not impacted by his scholarship.

The contributors explore Professor Smith’s most controversial thinking on private law. Interrogating questions of contract law, remedies, unjust enrichment, comparative law, and the legal theory underlying these fields, this is an important publication in the field.

Evan Fox-Decent holds the Canada Research Chair in Cosmopolitan Law and Justice at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, Canada.
John Goldberg is Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, USA.
Lionel Smith is Downing Professor of the Laws of England at Cambridge University, UK.