Research Handbook on Unjust Enrichment and Restitution

Edited by Elise Bant, Professor of Private Law and Commercial Regulation, UWA Law School, The University of Western Australia and Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Kit Barker, Professor of Law, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland and Simone Degeling, Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia

Table of Contents

1.The Evolution of Unjust Enrichment Law. Theory and Practice.
Elise Bant, Kit Barker and Simone Degeling

Part I History and Comparative Insights
2.Development at Common Law
David Ibbetson

3.Unjust Enrichment: A Comparative Perspective and a Critique
James Gordley

Part II: Taxonomy
4.Restitution and Unjust Enrichment
Andrew Kull

5.Restitution for Wrongs
Craig Rotherham

6.Unjust Enrichment and Contract
Hang Wu Tang

7.Unjust Enrichment and Equity
Lusina Ho

8.Comparative/Civilian perspectives
Helen Scott

Part III: Philosophical Foundations
9.The Corrective Justice of Liability for Unjust Enrichment
Ernest J Weinrib

10.Unjust Enrichment and the Forms of Justice
Dennis Klimchuk

11.A Law and Economics Perspective on Restitution
Chris Wonnell

12.Autonomy, Relational Justice and the Law of Restitution
Hanoch Dagan

Part IV: Analytical Structure
13.Enrichment
Mitchell McInnes

14.At the Claimant’s Expense
Stephen Watterson

15.Unjust Factors versus Absence of Juristic Reason (Causa)
Birke Häcker

16.Impaired Intention Unjust Factors?
Mindy Chen-Wishart and Rory Gregson

17.Conditional Intention as an Unjust Factor
Andrew Burrows

18.No Intention to Benefit
Michael Bryan

19.Other Reasons for Restitution
Charles Mitchell

Part V: Defences
20.A Taxonomy of Defences in Restitution
Graham Virgo

21.Change of Position-Based Defences
Ross GranthamT.H. Wu

22.Disenrichment in German Law
Thomas Krebs

Part VI: Restitutionary Remedies

23.Restitution, Compensation and Disgorgement
Katy Barnett

24.Proprietary Restitution
Timothy Liau and Rachel Leow

Index