Poverty has so far been overwhelmingly understood as a state of distributive injustice. As a result, the debate in private law theory about the role of private law in alleviating poverty has essentially collapsed into the question of whether private law could, and should, promote distributive...

By way of an alternative to the failed project of codifying private law for the European Union, a socio-legal account of the effects of EU legal integration on private law in Europe describes the emergence of European Regulatory Private Law (ERPL). ERPL offers a coherent conception of this vast...

Many private law scholars strive to divine broad unified normative theories of property, contracts, torts, and restitution (or, at times, even of private law as a whole). These monist accounts suggest that one regulative principle guides the various doctrines of these complex legal fields or...