Christianity and Private Law (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Cochran Jr, Robert; Moreland, Michael

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume examines the relationship between Christian legal theory and the fields of private law. It will be of special interest to the many law faculty in property, contracts, and torts, as it provides a set of often overlooked historical and theoretical perspectives on these fields.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000225051
• Artikelnr.: 60311586

Autorenporträt

Robert F. Cochran, Jr. is Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law and Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia, USA. Michael P. Moreland is University Professor of Law and Religion and Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
a. John Witte, Jr. (Emory) - Foreword
b. The Editors - Introduction
c. James R. Gordley (Tulane) - Christian Origins of Private Law
d. Brent A. Strawn (Duke) - Biblical Understandings of Private Law
2. Property
a. David W. Opderbeck (Seton Hall) - Christian Thought and Property Law
b. William S. Brewbaker III (Alabama) - Augustinian Property
c. Richard H. Helmholz (Chicago) - Religion and English Property Law:
1500-1700
d. Adam J. MacLeod (Faulkner) - Property and Practical Reason
e. Paula A. Franzese and Angela C. Carmella (Seton Hall) - Catholic Social
Teaching, Property Law, and Public Housing
3. Contracts
a. Wim Decock (KU Leuven, Belgium) - Contract Law in Early Modern
Scholasticism
b. David S. Caudill (Villanova) - Private Law in Christian Perspective: The
Example of Dooyeweerd on Contracts
c. C. Scott Pryor (Campbell) - Destabilizing Contract: A Christian Argument
For Revitalizing Unconscionability
d. Val D. Ricks (South Texas) - Christianity, Freedom, and the Doctrine of
Consideration
e. Michael A. Helfand (Pepperdine) - Privatization and Pluralism in Dispute
Resolution: Promoting Religious Values through Contract
4. Torts
a. Michael P. Moreland (Villanova) and Jeffrey A. Pojanowski (Notre Dame) -
The Moral of Torts
b. David F. Partlett (Emory) - Christianity and Tort Duties
c. Nathan B. Oman (William and Mary) - Christianity's Quarrel with Civil
Recourse Theory
d. Robert F. Cochran, Jr. (Pepperdine) - Tort Law and Intermediate
Communities: Catholic and Calvinist Theories