Politics, Policy and Private Law

This is a landmark and ambitious research project looking at private law through the policy prism undertaken by a team of acknowledged experts in their fields.

The majority of existing literature diminishes the impact of policy in the development of legal principles, impeding a deeper understanding of it. Part of a two-part study, this first volume explores tort law, property law and equity. Both studies engage with modern challenges and technical developments that now inform private law, with chapters looking at the Grenfell disaster, compensation of medical injuries post COVID-19, the gig economy and co-ownership. They also explore traditional private law areas through a novel lens, such as psychological injury and the impact of fairness and/or equality obligations. They highlight the similarities and differences across many aspects of private law, allowing for a richer analysis across all the strands of private law.

Author Biography

Jodi Gardner is Brian Coote Chair in Private Law at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Banking & Finance Law at the National University of Singapore.
Amy Goymour is an Associate Professor at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Janet O’Sullivan is Professor of Private Law and Vice Master and Director of Studies in Law at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, UK.
Sarah Worthington is Professor of Law, LSE, and Downing Professor Emeritus of the Laws of England and Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK.