• The Rights of Organizations
    Listening 26 (2): 134-144. 1991.
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    Professor Ernest Weinrib has argued that restitutionary damages must be understood, not as a deterrent to wrongful conduct, but as a requirement of commutative Justice. Professor Gordley agrees, but claims that a purposive understanding of commutative Justice can shed more light on restitutionary damages than the formal understanding of Professor Weinrib. A purposive understanding enables us to distinguish appropriation of a right from mere inteference, to distinguish true restitutionary damages…Read more
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    The Jurists: A Critical History
    Oxford University Press UK. 2013.
    The book is an intellectual history of the work of Western jurists from ancient Rome to the present. It discusses the Roman jurists, the medieval civilians and canon lawyers, the late scholastics, the natural law schools of the 17th and 18th centuries, the positivism and conceptualism of the 19th century and its influence on common law, and the reaction against conceptualism since the late 19th century. Rarely have jurists worked alone. Rather, they have worked in schools, each of which pursued …Read more
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    9. Law ... and the Imagination?
    Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 1 (1). 1997.
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  • Law... and the Imagination?
    Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 1 (1): 128-136. 1997.
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    The Philosophical Origins of Modern Contract Doctrine
    Oxford University Press UK. 1991.
    The common law of England and the United States and the civil law of continental Europe have a similar doctrinal structure, a structure not found in the English cases or Roman legal texts from which they supposedly descend. In this original and unorthodox study of common law and legal philosophy the author throws light on the historical origins of this confusion and in doing so attempts to find answers to many of the philosophical puzzles which contract lawyers face today. Reassessing the impact…Read more
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    Suárez and natural law
    In Benjamin Hill & Henrik Lagerlund (eds.), The Philosophy of Francisco Suárez, Oxford University Press. 2012.