Justifying Private Rights

1. Introduction
Simone Degeling, University of New South Wales, Australia, Michael JR Crawford, University of New South Wales, Australia, and Nicholas A Tiverios, University of Western Australia

PART I
THE NATURE OF PRIVATE RIGHTS
2. Justifying Private Rights
Peter Cane, University of Cambridge, UK
3. Justifying Private Law: 'Reasons Fundamentalist' Instrumentalism and the Kantian Account
James Penner, National University of Singapore
4. Intermediate and Comprehensive Justifications for Legal Rules
Stephen A Smith, McGill University, Canada
5. Can We Be Wrong About Rights?
Nicholas J McBride, University of Cambridge, UK
6. Juridical Justification of Private Rights
Paul B Miller, University of Notre Dame, USA
7. Sources of Private Rights
Lionel Smith, McGill University, Canada

PART II
PARTICULAR PRIVATE RIGHTS
8. Justifying Possession (or How We Get from Here to There)
Michael JR Crawford, University of New South Wales, Australia
9. Understanding the Tort of Deceit
Andrew Botterell, Western University, Canada
10. Justifying Liabilities and Duties
Andrew Robertson, University of Melbourne, Australia
11. Equity and the Justification of Private Rights
Ben McFarlane, University of Oxford, UK
12. Property, Therefore: Is an Equitable Doctrine of Relief against the Forfeiture of Contractual Rights Justifiable?
Nicholas A Tiverios, University of Western Australia