Wayne Courtney’s new book, Punishment and Private Law, has been published by Hart

Does private law punish? This collection, edited by Wayne Courtney together with Elise Bant, James Goudkamp, and Jeannie Marie Paterson, answers this complex but compelling question. Lawyers from across the spectrum of the law (contract, tort, restitution) explore exactly how it punishes wrong doing. These leading voices ask whether that punishment is effective and what its societal role might be. Taking the discussion out of the technical and into broader realms of a wider purpose, it is both compelling and thought-provoking.

Further details about the book, which includes chapters by Wayne as well as James Penner, may be found here.