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Justice in Private Law by Peter Jaffey. Hart Publishing, 2023, 178 pp (price and format) ISBN 978 0 192 88502 9.

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Justice in Private Law by Peter Jaffey. Hart Publishing, 2023, 178 pp (price and format) ISBN 978 0 192 88502 9.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 November 2024

Sagi Peari*
Affiliation:
University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society of Legal Scholars

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References

1 See Jaffey, P Justice in Private Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2023) pp 13–17CrossRefGoogle Scholar, 62–65.

2 Ibid, pp 19–29, 74–79, 121–124.

3 Ibid, pp 2, 40–61.

4 Ibid, pp 40, 52, 117.

5 Ibid, pp 5, 12–13, 40, 46, 96–100, 149–153.

6 Ibid, p 46.

7 Ibid, pp 19–22.

8 Ibid, pp 129–135.

9 Ibid, pp 29–33, 57, 67–69.

10 Ibid, pp 61, 92.

11 Ibid, pp 19–22, 34–36, 102–106, 111–113.

12 Ibid, pp 20–22, 27–29, 76–78, 122–124.

13 Ibid, p 34.

14 Ibid, pp 70–71.

15 Ibid, pp 48, 56, 115.

16 Ibid, pp 48, 56.

17 Ibid, pp 29, 52–57, 116, 153–155.

18 Ibid, pp 14–16, 18.

19 Ibid, p 89.

20 Ibid, p 93.

21 Ibid, pp 86, 90, 114–115, 125–126, 156–157, 161.

22 Ibid, p 91.

23 Ibid, p 90.

24 Ibid, pp 6, 40–42, 55–56, 80–81, 86, 88, 103, 113, 121, 127–130, 163, 174–175.

25 For some exceptions see P Benson ‘The basis of corrective justice and its relation to distributive justice’ (1992) 77 Iowa Law Review 515.

26 For other excellent works in private law theory which are relatively brief see Fried, C Contract as Promise (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981)Google Scholar.

27 For an excellent discussion of the continental context of private law legislation, see von Savigny, FC Of the Vocation of Our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence (A Hayward trans, London: Littlewood & Co, 1831) pp 132–139Google Scholar.

28 Jaffey, above n 1, p 94.

29 For the centrality of the value of equality within the stances of the corrective justice approach see eg Weinrib, EAristotle's forms of justice’ (1989) 2 Ratio Juris 211CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

30 See eg Peari, S The Equality Foundation of Choice of Law: Choice & Equality (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018) ch 4CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

32 Weinrib, E Reciprocal Freedom (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023)Google Scholar.

33 Jaffey, above n 1, p 57, fn 49.

34 Ibid, pp 44, 46, 59, 61.