Wrongful Enrichment - (International Studies in the Theory of Private Law) by Nahel Asfour (Hardcover)

About the Book

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Vienna. Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultèat, 2013) issued under title: The cultural perspective of wrongful enrichment law.

Book Synopsis

This book analyses enrichment law and its development and underpinning in social culture within three geographical regions: the United States, western members of the European Union and the late Ottoman Empire. These regions correspond, though imperfectly, with three different legal traditions: the American, continental and Islamic traditions.

The book argues that we should understand law as a mimetic artefact. In so doing, it explains how typical patterns and exemplary articulations of wrongful enrichment law capture and reiterate vocal cultural themes found in the respective regions. The book identifies remarkable affinities between poetic tendencies, structures and default dispositions of wrongful enrichment law and cultural world views. It offers bold accounts of each region's law and culture providing fertile grounds for external and comparative elucidations of the legal doctrine.

About the Author

Dr Nahel Asfour has lectured on Private Law and Culture, Property and Restitution Law Theory at the University of Vienna, and currently lectures on Remedies Law at Tel-Aviv University as teaching fellow. He also practices law in Nazareth, Israel.