The Normative Structure of Unjust Enrichment

Structure and Justification in Private Law: Essays for Peter Birks

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 21-46

  Weinrib, Ernest J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

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