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Books
Sanctity of Contracts in a Secular Age: Equity, Fairness and Enrichment (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
Principles and Policy in Contract Law: Competing or Complementary Perspectives? (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Dimensions of Private Law: Categories and Concepts in Anglo-American Legal Reasoning (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815-1855, (University of Toronto Press, 2000, 315 pp).
(With M. Trebilcock and M. Waldron) Cases and Materials on Contracts (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 1994).
2nd ed., 2000
Law, Politics, and the Church of England: the career of Stephen Lushington, 1782 - 1873. (Cambridge University Press, 1992, 370 pp.).
(With Berryman, Cassels, Cromwell, Mullan, Sadinsky, and Sharpe) Cases and Materials on Remedies (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 1987).
2nd ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 1992)
3rd ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 1997)
4th ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2000).
The Law of Damages, Canada Law Book, Toronto, 1983, 756 pp.
Winner of Walter Owen prize (shared)
2nd ed., 1991
3rd ed., 1997
4th ed., 2004
Introduction to the Study of Law, 1979, Carswell, Toronto, 270 pp.
2nd ed., 1983, Carswell, 256 pp.
3rd ed., 1987, Carswell, 220 pp.
4th ed., 1992, Carswell
5th ed., 1997, Carswell
6th ed., 2004, Carswell
The Law of Contracts (Toronto: Canada Law Book, 1977).
2nd ed. (Toronto: Canada Law Book, 1984)
3rd ed. (Toronto: Canada Law Book, 1993)
4th ed. (Toronto: Canada Law Book, 1999)
Le Droit des Contrats (translation) Centre Franco-ontarien de resources pedagogiques, 1992.
5th ed., 2005
Products Liability (Toronto: Carswell, 1974).
2nd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 1980)
3rd ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 1993)
4th ed. (Toronto: Carswell, 2002)
Milner's Cases and Materials on Contracts, 2nd ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1969).
3rd ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1977, reprinted 1979)
4th ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 1985)
Contributions to Books
“Principles of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Anglo-Canadian Contract Law” in C L Smith (ed) Commonalities and Departures: Canadian and UK Perspectives in Legal History, University of British Columbia Press, [forthcoming].
"The Draft Common Frame of Reference in Relation to English Contract Law" in M. Kenny and J. Devenney (eds) The Transformation of European Private Law: Harmonisation, Consolidation, Codification, or Chaos? Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp 4-22.
"Nineteenth-century Treatises on English Contract Law" in A. Fernandez and M. Dubber (eds), Law Books in Action, Hart, Oxford, 2012, pp 127-144.
"Autonomy and Paternalism from a Common Law Perspective: setting aside disadvantageous transactions," in A. Ogus and W. van Boom (eds) Juxtaposing Autonomy and Paternalism in Private Law, Hart, Oxford, 2011, pp 145-173.
"Clergy Discipline in the Church of England, 1830-1892" in C.H. van Rhee, ed. Within a Reasonable Time: the History of Due and Undue Delay in Civil Litigation, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin, 2010, 297-317.
"The Protection of Weaker Parties in English Law", in M. Kenny, J. Devenney, L. Fox O'Mahoney (eds.) Unconscionability in European Financial Transactions: Protecting the Vulnerable, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 26-45.
"Developments in Foreseeability and Remoteness: the Limits of Contract Damages" in R.J. Sharpe and K. Roach, Taking Remedies Seriously, Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, Ottawa, 2010, 221-28.
“Principle in Contract Law: the Doctrine of Consideration” in J Neyers, R Bronaugh and S. Pitel (eds.) Exploring Contract Law, Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2009, 51-75.
Article on Lumley v. Wagner in New Oxford Companion to Law (500 words). Oxford University Press, 2008.
"Contract law and the Protection of Reliance" in M. Faure and F. Stephen (eds) Essays in the Law and Economics of Regulation: In Honour of Anthony Ogus, Intersentia, Antwerp, 2008, 37.
“Gains Derived from Breach of Contract: Historical and Conceptual Perspectives” in R Cunnington and D Saidov (eds) Contract Damages: Domestic and International Perspectives, Oxford, Hart, 2008, 186-206.
“Contract and Unjust Enrichment: Competing Categories or Complementary Concepts?” in C. Rickett and R Grantham (eds) Structure and Justification in Private Law: Essays for Peter Birks, Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2007, 167-183.
"The Relation between Contract and Unjust Enrichment" in P. Gilliker (ed), Re-examining Contract and Unjust Enrichment: Anglo-Canadian Perspectives, Leiden, Brill, 2007, 15.
"Breaches of Contract and Claims by Third Parties" in J.W. Neyers, E. Chamberlain & S.G.A. Pitel eds., Emerging Issues in Tort Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2007), 191.
"What were the Principles of Nineteenth-century English Contract Law?" in A.D.E. Lewis, Paul Brand, and Paul Mitchell (eds) Law in the City: Proceedings of the Seventeenth British Legal History Conference London 2005 Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, pp 305-18.
"Private Right and Public Interest" in M. Bryan (ed.), Private Law in Theory and Practice, London, Routledge (2007), pp 1-24.
"Evidence of Witnesses in the English Ecclesiastical Courts (1830-1857)" in C.H. van Rhee (ed.) The Law's Delay: Essays on Undue Delay in Civil Litigation, 2004, Intersentia, Antwerp, pp 343-60.
"The Relation of Unjust Enrichment to Other Legal Concepts" in Understanding Unjust Enrichment ed. J Neyers, M. McInnes and S. Pitel, Hart, Oxford, 2004, pp. 405-408.
"Judicial Discretion" in Discretionary Power of the Judge: Limits and Control, ed. M. Storme, B. Hess, and C. van Rhee, Kluwer, Mechelen, 2003, pp 547-559.
"Classification of Private Law in Relation to Historical Evidence: Description, Prescription, and Conceptual Analysis", in Law and History, Current Legal Issues 2003, vol 6, ed. Andrew Lewis and Michael Lobban, Oxford University Press 2003, pp 265-284.
"Complexities of Private Law: A Historical Perspective", in Classification of Private Law: Bases of Liabilities and Remedies, ed. C. Wasserstein Fassberg, and I. Gilead, Sacher Institute, Jerusalem, 2003, pp. 13-34.
"The Relation of Unjust Enrichment to Other Concepts in Private Law" in Unjust Enrichment and the Law of Contract, E J H Schrage, ed., (The Hague: Kluwer, 2001) 411.
"Breach of Contract and the Concept of Wrongdoing" in Ruled by Law: Essays in Memory of Mr Justice John Sopinka, Lionel Smith, ed., (Toronto: Butterworths, 2000); also in (2000) 12 Supreme Court Law Review 1-29.
"New Directions in Products Liability" in Torts Tomorrow: A Tribute to John Fleming, Allen Linden and Nicholas Mullany, eds., (Sydney: Law Book Co., 1998) 119.
"Stephen Lushington" in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford, vol. 34, pp.792-794.
"The Choice of Remedy for Breach of Contract" in Good Faith and Fault in Contract Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995) 471.
"Comments on Welfarism and Contract Law" in Welfarism and Contract Law (Aldershot: Dartmouth Press, 1994) 248.
"Principles of Damages" in Essays on the Law of Damages, P. Finn, ed., (Sydney: Law Book Co Ltd., 1992) 1.
"Recent Developments in the Law of Damages" in The 1991 Isaac Pitblado Lectures: Recent Developments in the Law of Damages (Winnipeg: Law Society of Manitoba, 1992) 1.
"Pre-Contractual Duties of Disclosure" in Essays for Patrick Atiyah, P. Cane and J. Stapleton, eds. (Oxford: 1991) 237.
"Restitution as Part of Contract Law" in Essays on the English Law of Restitution, A. Burrows, ed. (Oxford, 1991) 197.
"Strict Products Liability" in The Cambridge Lectures, 1987 (Yvon Blais, 1989) 111.
"Research and Scholarship" in Legal Education in Canada (Federation of Law Societies of Canada, 1987).
"The Law of Products Liability in the Common Law Provinces of Canada", in Comparative Product Liability, C.J. Miller, ed. (London: United Kingdom National Committee of Comparative Law, 1986) 161.
"Law" (Jointly with Professor J. Brierley) in The Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1985).
"A Commonwealth Perspective" in Lord Denning: The Judge and the Law, Sweet and Maxwell, 1984) 455.
"Restitution for the Part Performer" in Studies in Contract Law, B.J. Reiter and J. Swan, eds., (Toronto: Butterworths, 1980) 151.
Articles
"The Contribution to Private Law of Justice La Forest" (2013) 53 Can Bus LJ, 205-222.
"The Problem of Standard Form Contracts: a Retreat to Formalism" (2013) 53 Can Bus LJ, 475-487.
"Equity in English Contract Law: the Impact of the Judicature Acts (1873-75)" (2012) 33 Journal of Legal History, 185-208.
"Canadian Contract Law, 1970-2010" (2011) 50 Cam Bus LJ 409-433.
"Autonomy and Paternalism from a Common Law Perspeective: Setting aside Disadvantageous Transactions" (2010) 3 Erasmus LR 121-140.
"Abusive or Unconscionable Clauses from a Common Law Perspective" (2010) 49 Can Bus LJ 378-399.
"Authority, Precedent and Principle" (2008) 59 University of Toronto Law Journal 127-133.
"The Economics of Contract Law", (2007) 45 Canadian Business Law Journal 37-55.
"The Case of Grace James", (2007) 13 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 783-793.
"Modern Notions of Commercial Reality and Justice: Justice Iacobucci and Contract Law," (2007) 57 University of Toronto Law Journal 331-342.
"The Price of Excessive Damage Awards", (2005) 27 Sydney Law Review, 543-556
"Johanna Wagner and the Rival Opera Houses” (2001) 117 LQR 431-458.
"Judicial Discretion" (2001) 1 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 59-71.
"Breach of Contract and the Concept of Wrongdoing" (2000) 12 Supreme Court Law Review 1-29.
"English Matrimonial Law on the Eve of Reform (1828-1857)" (2000) 21 Journal of Legal History 59-82.
"The Canadian Law of Products Liability" (1999) 34 Texas International Law Journal 119-133.
"Unconscionable Contracts: Competing Perspectives" (1999) 16 Saskatchewan Law Review 1-17.
"Damages: Assessment of Uncertainties" (1998) 13 Journal of Contract Law 55.
"The Valuation of Chances" (1998) 30 Canadian Business Law Journal 86.
"Profits Derived from Breach of Contract: Damages or Restitution?" (1997) 11 Journal of Contract Law 115-126.
"Good Faith, Unconscionability, and Reasonable Expectations" Journal of Contract Law (1995) 9 Journal of Contract Law 1-13.
"Codification, Law Reform, and Judicial Development" (1995) 9 Journal of Contract Law 192-199.
"Unconscionability in Canadian Contract Law" (1992) 14 Loyola of L. A. International & Comparative Law Journal 541-544.
"Do We Need a Parol Evidence Rule?" (1991) 19 Canadian Business Law Journal 385-396.
"Dr Lushington's Contribution to the Law of Maritime Salvage" (1989) Lloyds Mar. & Com. L. Q. 59-80.
“Compensation for Non Pecuniary Loss” (1985) 63 Canadian Bar Review 734-743.
“Damages for Wrongful Death” (1984) 47 Modern Law Review 437-453.
“Damages for Breach of Contract” Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lectures (1981) New Developments in the Law of Remedies 257-275.
“The Date for Assessment of Damages” (1981) 97 L. Q. R. 445-461.
“Damages for Failure to Return Shares” (1979) 3 Canadian Business Law Journal 398-425.
“Legislation and Contract Law” (1979) 17 University of Western Ontario Law Review 185-198.
“Unconscionability in Contracts” (1976) 39 Modern Law Review 369-393.
“The Strict Liability of Suppliers of Goods” (1974) 37 Modern Law Review 154-174.
“Implied Warranties and Products Liability, Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lectures” (1973) New Developments in the Law of Torts 159-187.
“Strict Liability, Warranties and the Sale of Goods” (1969) 19 University of Toronto Law Journal 157-209.
“Medical Experiments on Human Subjects” (1967) 25 University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review 25-54.
Notes, Comments and Published Papers
"Mental Distress on Breach of Contract", (2008) 82 Australian Law Journal 368-370.
(with Professor J.S. Ziegel) "Notional Severance, Usurious Contracts, and Two Comments on the Supreme Court's Decision in the New Solutions Case" (2005) 42 Canadian Business Law Journal 278-91.
"Good Faith and Wrongful Dismissal" (2002) 36 Canadian Business Law Journal 307.
"Tenders for Construction Contracts" (1999) 32 Canadian Business Law Journal 308.
"Negligence and Public Nuisance" (1999) 10 Product Liability Reporter 56.
"Causation, Physicians, and Disclosure of Risks" (1999) 7 Tort Law Review 5.
"Crossing Conceptual Boundaries: Liability for Product Defects" (1999) 14 Journal of Contract Law 28.
"Liability of Valuers: Kenny & Good Pty Ltd v. MGICA (1992) Ltd" (1998) 5 Torts Law Journal 218.
"The Renegotiation of Contracts: Duress" (1998) 13 Journal of Contract Law 199.
"Fiduciary Duties and Equitable Compensation" (1996) 27 Canadian Business Law Journal 466-472.
"Liability for the Cost of Repairs" (1996) 7 Product Liability Reporter 5.
"Further Reflections on Economic Loss: A Canadian Perspective" (1994) 2 Tort Law Review 116-124.
Commentary on "The impact of fairness in commercial contracts" (1993) Journal of Contract Law 28-29.
"Causation in Canada and Australia" (1993) 1 Tort Law Review 75-82.
"Precontractual duties of disclosure" (1991) 19 Canadian Business Law Journal 349-50.
"Reliance and Contract Law" (1990) New Zealand Law Journal 401-402.
"Non-disclosure in Sales of Land," (1989) 105 L.Q.R. 377-82.
"Two Contrasting Approaches to the Parol Evidence Rule" (1986), 12 Canadian Business Law Journal 207-11.
"Tort Liability for Economic Loss: Junior Books Ltd. v. Veitchi Co. Ltd." (1983), 8 Canadian Business Law Journal 101-109.
"The Modern Role of Contract Law" (1983) 8 Canadian Business Law Journal 2.
"Tort Liability for Economic Loss: Junior Books Ltd. v. Veitchi Co. Ltd." (1983) 8 Canadian Business Law Journal 101.
(With R.J. Sharpe) "Damages for Loss of Opportunity to Bargain" (1982) 2 Ox. J. L. S. 290.
"Recent and Prospective Legislative Developments in Products Liability, Workshop on Consumer and Commercial Law" (Toronto: Butterworths, 1981).
"Inflation and Mitigation of Damages" (1981) 1 Ox. J. L. S. 134.
"Third Party Beneficiaries in the Supreme Court of Canada" (1981) 59 Canadian Bar Review 549.
"Fundamental Breach of Contract and Exemption Clauses" (1981) 15 University of British Columbia Law Review 189.
"General Motors v. Kravitz - Implications for the Common Law" (1980) 1 Supreme Court Law Review 417.
“Sections 8 to 10 of the Quebec Consumer Protection Act: A Common Law View” (Meredith Lectures, McGill University, 1979) De Boo, Toronto, 1980.
“Contracts Exemption Clauses Fundamental Breach – Unconscionability” (1978-79) 17 University of Western Ontario Law Review 295.
“Products Liability in Canadian Common Law” (1977) 12 R. J. T. 25.
“Contracts Carriage of Goods Exemption for the Benefit of Third Parties” (1977) 55 Canadian Bar Review 327.
“Variations of Contracts and the Requirement of Consideration” (1977) 2 Canadian Business Law Journal 232.
“Contracts Mistake Rectification with Optional Rescission” (1975) 53 Canadian Bar Review 339.
“Products Liability Duty to Warn Economic Loss” (1974) 52 Canadian Bar Review 96.
“Are the Mentally Ill Deprived of Their Rights?” Globe & Mail 9 August 1972, reprinted 20 Chitty's Law Journal 301.
“Contracts Exemption Clauses – Unconscionability” (1971) 49 Canadian Bar Review 578.
“Standard Form Contracts” (1969) 47 Canadian Bar Review 505.
“Alter Ego and the Criminal Liability of Corporations” (1966) 24 University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review 145.
“The Effect of Unsigned Writings in the Formation of Sales Contracts: 'The Battle of the Forms' and Related Questions” Ontario Law Reform Commission, Sale of Goods Project, Research Paper No. II, 1.
“The Classification of Contractual and Non Contractual Obligations” Ontario Law Reform Commission, Sale of Goods Project, Research Paper No. III, 2.
“Implied Conditions and Warranties in The Sale of Goods Act, Sections 13 16” Ontario Law Reform Commission, Sale of Goods Project, Research Paper No. III, 3.
Memorandum on (A) Sealed Contracted in the Sale of Goods (B) Effect of Absent Time Provisions in Sales Contracts (U. C. C. 2 309) (C) Output and Requirement Contracts and Exclusive Dealing (U. C. C. 2 306). Ontario Law Reform Commission, Sale of Goods Project, Research Paper II, 9.
Book Reviews and Review Articles
Qaio Liu, Anticipatory Breach, (2011) 6 Journal of Business Law 641-43.
O’Sullivan, Elliot and Zakrzewski, The Law of Rescission, (2008) 8 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 133.
R B Outhwaite, The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts 1500-1860, (2008) 26 Law and History Review 193-194.
N. Duxbury, Frederick Pollock and the English Juristic Tradition (2005) 55 University of Toronto Law Journal 1023-25.
C. Stebbings, The Private Trustee in Victorian England, (2004) 39 Canadian Journal of History, 176-7.
G. Samuel, Epistemology and Method in Law (2003) 53 University of Toronto Law Journal 455-56.
“Jurists and Judges: An Essay on Influence by N Duxbury” (2002) 52 University of Toronto Law Journal 305.
“Twisting in the Wind: The Murderess and the English Press by J. Knelman” (2000) 69 University of Toronto Quarterly, 249.
“The Law of Obligations: Essays in Celebration of John Fleming eds. P Cane and J Stapleton” (2000) Modern Law Review 464.
“Contractual Non-Disclosure by A Duggan, M Bryan and F Hanks” (1995) 45 University of Toronto Law Journal 363.
“Broken Lives: Separation and Divorce in England 1660-1857 by L. Stone” (1994) 38 A. J. L. H. 104.
“Bureaucratic Mercy by R. Chadwick” (1993) 37 Victorian Studies 165.
“Uses and Abuses of Unjust Enrichment by J. Beatson” (1992) 21 Canadian Business Law Journal 306.
“The Law of Restitution by Maddaugh and McCamus” (1991) 6 Banking and Finance Law Rev. 379.
“State and Salvation by Kaplan” (1990) 6 Toronto Journal of Theology 133.
“Sir William Scott, Lord Stowell” by Bourgignon (1989) 33 A. J. L. H. 172.
“Remedies in Contract and Tort by Harris” (1989) 105 L. Q. R. 497.
“Sir John Beverley Robinson: Bone and Sinew of the Compact by Brode and Duff: A Life in the Law by Williams” (1986) 30 A. J. L. H. 283.
“Working Paper No. 36, Illegal Contracts by British Columbia Law Reform Commission” (1983) 7 Canadian Business Law Journal 361-365.
“Unjust Enrichment by Klippert” (1983) 8 Canadian Business Law Journal 387.
“Working Paper No. 33, Foreign Money Liabilities by British Columbia Law Reform Commission” (1982) 6 Canadian Business Law Journal 352.
“Modern Products Liability Law by R. A. Epstein” (1982) 32 University of Toronto Law Journal 115.
“Remedies as a Legal Subject” (1982) 3 Ox. J. L. S. 113.
The Rise and Fall of Freedom of Contract by Atiyah (1981) 19 University of Western Ontario Law Review 198.
“Products Liability by Tebbens” (1980) 4 Canadian Business Law Journal 359.
“Unfair Contracts by Deutsch” (1978) 41 Modern Law Review 243.
“Product Liability in Europe”(1976), 2 Canadian Business Law Journal 232.
“Law Commission's Second Report on Exemption Clause” (1976) 1 Canadian Business Law Journal 406.
"Proceedings of National Symposium on Medical Sciences and the Criminal Law" (1974) 16 Criminal Law Quarterly 459.
"Experimentation with Human Subjects by Freund" (1973) 1 Dalhousie Law Review 415.
"The Consumer and the Law in Canada by Neilson" (1971) 21 University of Toronto Law Journal 588.
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