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Law and Ethics of Restitution

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ISBN-10: 0521829046

ISBN-13: 9780521829045

Edition: 2004

Authors: Hanoch Dagan

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Dagan's book provides a dynamic and much needed account of the American law of restitution. The book reviews the existing doctrine, including the forthcoming (third) Restatement, using an ethical perspective to expose and examine critically the normative underpinnings of the core categories of restitution. Dagan also discusses some of the most controversial issues in the area, such as cohabitation, improper tax payments, and the role of constructive trusts as trumps in bankruptcy. He further tackles the recent restitution claims of slave laborers (or their descendants) against corporations that benefited from their enslavements, and of governmental bodies against injurious industries. Dagan…    
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Book details

List price: $103.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/12/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 398
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Hanoch Dagan is Professor of Law and Jurisprudence at Tel-Aviv University, and Affiliated Overseas Professor at the University of Michigan Law School. He wrote Unjust Enrichment: A Study of Private Law and Public Values (1997). His recent articles have been published in the California Law Review, Columbia Law Review, Michigan Law Review, New York University Law Review, Texas Law Review, Virginia Law Review, and Yale Law Review.

Introduction
Preventing unjust enrichment
Mistakes
Other-regarding conferrals of benefits
Self-interested conferrals of benefits
Restitution in contexts of informal intimacy
Wrongful enrichments
Restitution in a contractual context
Restitution in bankruptcy
Reasons for restitution