Foundations of Private Law

James Gordley is the Shannon Cecil Turner Professor of Jurisprudence, School of Law, University of California at Berkeley

I THE ENTERPRISE ; 1. Basic Principles ; 2. Differences among Legal Systems ; II PROPERTY ; 3. Possession and Ownership ; 4. The Extent of the Right to Use Property: Nuisance, Troubles de voisinage, and Immissionenrecht ; 5. Private Modification of the Right to use Property: Servitudes ; 6. Rights Annexed to the Use of Property: The Case of Water Rights ; 7. Loss of Resources without the Owner's Consent: Necessity and Adverse Possession ; 8. Acquisition of Resources without a Prior Owner's Consent: Minerals, Capture, Found Property ; III TORTS ; 9. The Structure of the Modern Civil and Common Law of Torts ; 10. The Defendant's Conduct: Intent, Negligence, Strict Liability ; 11. Liability in Tort for Harm to Reputation, Dignity, Privacy, and 'Personality' ; 12. Liability in Tort for Pure Economic Loss ; IV CONTRACTS ; 13. Promises ; 14. Mistake ; 15. Impossibility and Unexpected Circumstances ; 16. Promises to Make a Gift ; 17. Promises to Exchange ; 18. Liability for Breach of Contract ; V UNJUST ENRICHMENT ; 19. The Principle against Unjustified Enrichment ; 20. Restitution without Enrichment? ; 20. Remedies in Restitution