1 Ross Grantham and Charles Rickett:In Memoriam - Professor Peter Birks 1
2 Ross Grantham and Charles Rickett: Unjust Enrichment- Reason,Place and Content 5
Part 1 - Why Restitution? 21
3 Ernest Weinrib: The Normative Structure of Unjust Enrichment 21
4 Kit Barker: Responsibility for Gain: Unjust Factors or Absence of Legal Ground? Starting Points in Unjust Enrichment Law 47
Part 2 - The Place of Unjust Enrichment in the Private Law 77
5 Mitchell McInnes: Taxonomic Lessons for the Supreme Court of Canada 77
6 Emily Sherwin: Legal Positivism and the Taxonomy of Private Law 103
7 Richard Sutton: Restitution and the Discourse of System 127
8 Hanoch Dagan: Legal Realism and the Taxonomy of Private Law 147
9 Stephen Waddams: Contract and Unjust Enrichment: Competing Categories, or Complementary Concepts? 167
10 Daniel Friedmann: The Creation of Entitlements through the Law of Restitution 185
11 Steve Hedley: The Shock of the Old: Interpretivism in Obligations 205
Part 3 - Issues in the Law of Unjust Enrichment 225
12 Peter Butler: Advance Contractual Payments: Enforcement and Restitution for Failure of Basis 225
13 Struan Scott: Mistaken Improvers and a Recognisable Law of Unjust Enrichment 245
14 Simone Degeling: Understanding Policy-motivated Unjust Factors 267
15 John McCamus: Restitutionary Liability of Public Authorities in Canada 291
16 Mark P Gergen: Towards Understanding Equitable Estoppel 319
17 Michael Bryan: Recipient Liability under the Torrens System:Some Category Errors 339
18 Peter Watts: Birks and Proprietary Claims, with Special Reference to Misrepresentation and to Ultra Vires Contracts 361
19 Eoin O'Dell: The Resulting Trust 379
20 Stephen A Smith: Rights, Remedies, and Causes of Action 405
21 Michael Tilbury: Remedy as Right 421
The Publications of Peter Birks 1969-2005 441
Index 453