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  • 4 - What’s in a Name?
  • Edited by Sophie Turenne, University of Cambridge
  • Book: Reasons and Context in Comparative Law
  • Published online: 27 April 2023
  • Print publication: 11 May 2023, pp 65-93
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    Summary

    Modern legal systems generally have a category of obligations known variously as restitution, unjust enrichment, unjustified enrichment or some variant of these. Whichever legal system they are found in, they have a common source in Roman law: the stoic idea that enrichment at the expense of another is unjust, obligations quasi ex contractu and the different forms of non-contractual condictiones. This chapter traces the development of the ideas from Justinian to the modern day, picking up ideas of equity along the way. It focuses on the shifting principles underlying the category, typified by its name, rather than its concrete instantiations, aiming to trace the largely unthinking patterns of borrowing from one legal system to another and from one language to another.

  • Why Ever Should Anyone Need a Law Librarian?
  • David Ibbetson
  • Journal: Legal Information Management / Volume 19 / Issue 2 / June 2019
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 July 2019, pp. 92-93
  • Print publication: June 2019
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    In this short article, David Ibbetson, the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge, writes about the value of the law librarian in the academic context. His wide-ranging interests cover English and European legal history and, in particular, the historical relationship between English Common Law and the legal systems and legal thought of the rest of Europe. His experiences of using law libraries and receiving assistance from academic-based law librarians has led him to acknowledge the true value of the profession.

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