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Understanding Private Law

Understanding Private Law Essays in Honour of Stephen A Smith

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Hart Studies in Private Law

Understanding Private Law

Essays in Honour of Stephen A Smith

Evan Fox-Decent | John C. P. Goldberg | Lionel Smith

Law / Remedies & Damages

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 C. P. Goldberg is Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School, USA.
Lionel Smith is Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford, UK.


Publication Date: 23 July 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Imprint: Hart Publishing
ISBN-13: 9781509971190
Format: Paperback / softback
Page Count: 352
Weight (oz): 16.0

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