Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK REVIEW - UNDERSTANDING THE LAW OF OBLIGATIONS: ESSAYS ON CONTRACT, TORT AND RESTITUTION
UNDERSTANDING THE LAW OF OBLIGATIONS: Essays on Contract, Tort and Restitution. Andrew Burrows, Professor of English Law, University College London. Hart Publishing, Oxford (1998) xxiv and 217 pp., plus 5pp. Index. Hard cover £25.
Specialism is not merely a danger of academic life; it is a pre-condition of effective scholarship. No-one can study everything. Yet we should not confuse the ability to solve a particular type of conundrum with the breadth of knowledge necessary to decide whether it is worth solving, or
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