Christopher Essert
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4391999 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christopher Essert |
| PRENOMES | Christopher |
| SOBRENOME | Essert |
| ASSINATURA | ESSERT C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queen's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9247-3029 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Seventy-five years of legal education and scholarship at the ‘modern’ Faculty of Law
This is an introduction to ‘Looking Forward by Looking Back,’ a special issue of the University of Toronto Law Journal dedicated to the proceedings of a conference celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. The introduction begins by reviewing Cecil A ‘Caesar’ Wright’s writings about the nature and purpose of a modern law school and, following the issue’s themes, suggesting how looking back to Wright’s …
What Makes a Home
The office of ownership revisited
In this article, I revisit the arguments in, and address some concerns about, an earlier article of mine, ‘The Office of Ownership.’ This article makes two main points. The first is about the ways in which a transfer of property from one person to another affects the obligations of third parties. I continue to defend the earlier article’s claim that, by thinking about the obligations owed to owners of property as being owed to ‘the owner,’ rather…
Thinking like a private lawyer
In this review essay of their books, Private Wrongs, Corrective Justice, and The Idea of Private Law, I discuss some aspects of the approach to private law (and, in particular, tort law) taken by Arthur Ripstein and Ernest Weinrib. Among the elements of their view that I highlight are: the role of a ‘form of thought’ and its relation to questions of ‘fit’; the centrality of correlative or relational normativity; the particular kind of justificati…
Property and Homelessness
The Office of Ownership
I defend an account of ownership as a legal office, according to which the rights and duties of a given owner are not the rights and duties of some individual person but rather the rights and duties of the office of owner. This view of ownership has several advantages. First, it allows us to manage an apparent conflict between the fact that ownership rights and duties seem to be bilaterally structured and the fact that ownership rights and duties…
The Office of Ownership
Property and Homelessness
The Office of Ownership
I defend an account of ownership as a legal office, according to which the rights and duties of a given owner are not the rights and duties of some individual person but rather the rights and duties of the office of owner. This view of ownership has several advantages. First, it allows us to manage an apparent conflict between the fact that ownership rights and duties seem to be bilaterally structured and the fact that ownership rights and duties…
The office of ownership revisited
In this article, I revisit the arguments in, and address some concerns about, an earlier article of mine, ‘The Office of Ownership.’ This article makes two main points. The first is about the ways in which a transfer of property from one person to another affects the obligations of third parties. I continue to defend the earlier article’s claim that, by thinking about the obligations owed to owners of property as being owed to ‘the owner,’ rather…
Thinking like a private lawyer
In this review essay of their books, Private Wrongs, Corrective Justice, and The Idea of Private Law, I discuss some aspects of the approach to private law (and, in particular, tort law) taken by Arthur Ripstein and Ernest Weinrib. Among the elements of their view that I highlight are: the role of a ‘form of thought’ and its relation to questions of ‘fit’; the centrality of correlative or relational normativity; the particular kind of justificati…
The Office of Ownership
I defend an account of ownership as a legal office, according to which the rights and duties of a given owner are not the rights and duties of some individual person but rather the rights and duties of the office of owner. This view of ownership has several advantages. First, it allows us to manage an apparent conflict between the fact that ownership rights and duties seem to be bilaterally structured and the fact that ownership rights and duties…
The Office of Ownership
Property and Homelessness
Thinking like a private lawyer
In this review essay of their books, Private Wrongs, Corrective Justice, and The Idea of Private Law, I discuss some aspects of the approach to private law (and, in particular, tort law) taken by Arthur Ripstein and Ernest Weinrib. Among the elements of their view that I highlight are: the role of a ‘form of thought’ and its relation to questions of ‘fit’; the centrality of correlative or relational normativity; the particular kind of justificati…
The office of ownership revisited
In this article, I revisit the arguments in, and address some concerns about, an earlier article of mine, ‘The Office of Ownership.’ This article makes two main points. The first is about the ways in which a transfer of property from one person to another affects the obligations of third parties. I continue to defend the earlier article’s claim that, by thinking about the obligations owed to owners of property as being owed to ‘the owner,’ rather…
What Makes a Home
Seventy-five years of legal education and scholarship at the ‘modern’ Faculty of Law
This is an introduction to ‘Looking Forward by Looking Back,’ a special issue of the University of Toronto Law Journal dedicated to the proceedings of a conference celebrating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. The introduction begins by reviewing Cecil A ‘Caesar’ Wright’s writings about the nature and purpose of a modern law school and, following the issue’s themes, suggesting how looking back to Wright’s …
Political science (6 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Law and economics (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Legal principles and applications (3 obras) · Business (2 obras) · Covenant (2 obras) · Epistemology (2 obras) · Free Will and Agency (2 obras)