TY - BOOK ID - 142269173 TI - The Idea of Private Law PY - 2012 SN - 1283658151 0191643157 0191643165 PB - Oxford : OUP Oxford, DB - UniCat KW - Civil law -- Philosophy -- Congresses. KW - Civil law -- Philosophy. KW - Civil law. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142269173 AB - Nearly twenty years after its original publication, The Idea of Private Law is widely recognized as a seminal contribution to legal philosophy, and one of the leading attempts to explain and justify the moral foundations of private law. Rejecting the functionalism popular among legal scholars, Ernest Weinrib advances the provocative idea that private law is an autonomous and non-instrumental moral practice, with its own structure and rationality. Weinrib draws on Kant andAristotle to set out an approach to private law that repudiates the identification of law with politics or economics. Weinri ER -