Review
"Lively and well-written..a powerfully argued and sophisticated piece of work."--Iimes Higher Education Supplement
"The publication of An Introduction to the Law of Restitution represents something of a landmark; for...Birks' book represents the most sophisticated attempt in the common law world to map out the law of restitution."--A.S. Burrows in The Law Quarterly Review
"A major enterprise, and it is tackled with cocnsumate skill. It is such that this book deserves to become...a classic of analytic jurisprudence."--Cambridge Law Journal
"The book is intended to be, and is, seminal."--Llioyd's Maritime and commercial law
Product Description
The author has taken the opportunity presented by the production of this new paperback edition to revise parts of the text and add a substantial postscript which brings the text up to date. This important work was hailed by scholars worldwide as the most significant recent work on restitution, and a landmark in the development of our understanding of this difficult subject. Students and scholars of common and civil law will welcome this paperback which brings the work to a wider readership. `The book amply repays close attention...both for its wealth of detail and for its perspicuous organisational principles'.Ethics `This is an impressive and challenging book that will be read and debated by legal scholars for some years'.Social Sciences