Politics and Policy in Tort, Property and Equity

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This is a landmark and ambitious research project looking at private law through the policy prism undertaken by a team of acknowledged experts in their fields. The majority of existing literature diminishes the impact of policy in the development of legal principles, impeding a deeper understanding of it. Part of a two-part study, this first volume explores tort law, property law and equity. Both studies engage with modern challenges and technical developments that now inform private law, with chapters looking at the Grenfell disaster, compensation of medical injuries post COVID-19 and co-ownership. They also explore traditional private law areas through a novel lens, such as psychological injury and the impact of fairness and/or equality obligations. They highlight the similarities and differences across many aspects of private law, allowing for a richer analysis across all the strands of private law.

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Jodi Gardner is University Lecturer at the Cambridge Faculty of Law and a Fellow of St John's College, University of Cambridge, UK. Amy Goymour is Senior University Lecturer at the Cambridge Faculty of Law and a Fellow at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK. Janet OSullivan is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Vice Master and Director of Studies in Law at Selwyn College, UK. Sarah Worthington is the Downing Professor of the Laws of England, a Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and Director of the Cambridge Private Law Centre, UK.