Imperatives and Private Law: Modern Challenges

The Challenges of Private Law: A Research Agenda for an Autonomy-Based Private Law

, Property : Values and Institutions ( New York , Oxford University Press , 2011 ) ; H Dagan and MA Heller , The Choice Theory of Contracts ( New York , Cambridge University Press , 2017 ) forthcoming; H Dagan , ‘ Pluralism and Perfectionism in Private Law ’ ( 2012 ) 112 Columbia Law Review 1409 ; H Dagan and A Dorfman , ‘ Just Relationships ’ ( 2016 ) 116 Columbia Law Review forthcoming. 2 A B...

Mobile ad hoc networking: imperatives and challenges

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) represent complex distributed systems that comprise wireless mobile nodes that can freely and dynamically self-organize into arbitrary and temporary, ‘‘ad-hoc’’ network topologies, allowing people and devices to seamlessly internetwork in areas with no pre-existing communication infrastructure, e.g., disaster recovery environments. Ad hoc networking concept is no...

The Challenges and Strategic Imperatives of Nigeria’s Defense and Internal Security Measures since the Fourth Republic

The year 1999 marks a remarkable turnaround in Nigeria’s history and bid for global reckoning as a democratic nation having grappled with a sustained military rule for many decades after her independence. However, with the country’s return to democratic rule, many teething problems evolved which of course is not strange to young and emerging democracies such as Nigeria’s particularly after many...

Distributive Injustice and Private Law

Liabilities in Private Law

This article elaborates upon and defends the distinction between “primary duty” claims and “primary liability” claims in private law introduced in a previous article. In particular, I discuss the relevance of the distinction to the debates over fault and strict liability and “duty skepticism” and to the relationship between primary and remedial rights. I argue that the tendency to assume that a...