Book Launch: Taking Law Seriously: Essays in Honour of Peter Cane
We are delighted to invite you to the launch of the festschrift for Peter Cane, Taking Law Seriously: Essays in Honour of Peter Cane, published in January 2022 by Hart Publishing. Over his career, Peter has made a remarkable contribution to legal scholarship, illuminating the territory of both public and private law with imagination and insight.
The launch will take place on Friday 4th March 2022 at 5:30pm to 6:30pm in the MBI Al Jaber Auditorium, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Short presentations regarding the book, and Peter’s career more generally, will be made by Professor Roderick Bagshaw (Oxford), Professor Timothy Endicott (Oxford) and Professor Nicola Lacey (LSE). Subject to government and university guidelines, the event will take place in person (and only in person).
Thereafter, from 6:30pm to 7:30pm drinks and canapes will be served in the Rainolds Room in Corpus Christi.
Please RSVP to mark.lunney@kcl.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 25 February 2022 if you would like to attend. Space will be made available on a first-come-first-served basis.
A list of the book’s chapters is set out below.
Private Law
Tort Law Beyond the Forms of Action: Achieving the Goal of The Anatomy of Tort Law, Christine Beuermann
Elements of Torts, James Goudkamp
Culpability and Compensation, Sandy Steel
Peter Cane on Torts, Stephen D Sugarman
Public Law
Constitutional Rights, Moral Judgement and the Rule of Law, TRS Allan
Participation and the Duty to Consult, Janet McLean
Controlling Administration: The Rise of Unilateral Executive Power in the United States, Jerry L Mashaw
Intersections
Administrative Compensation: Bypass or Dead End?, Carol Harlow
Tort and Regulation, Donal Nolan
Regulating Relationships: The Regulatory Potential of Tort Law Revisited, Jenny Steele
The Nature and Role of Legal Scholarship
Thinking about Doctrine in Administrative Law, Leighton McDonald
Administrative Tribunals: An Essay about the Legal Imagination of Administrative Law Scholars, Elizabeth Fisher
Cane as Law Reformer: Götterdämerung or House of Cards?, Mark Lunney
Philosophical and Judicial Thinking about Moral Concepts: Cane’s Critique of Philosophical Method 20 Years On, Anthony J Connolly
We very much look forward to seeing you at the launch and celebration of one of the world’s leading legal scholars.
This event is generously supported by Hart Publishing, the Centre for International and Public Law in the College of Law at the Australian National University, and Corpus Christi College and the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford.