Dennis Klimchuk is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Law at the University of Western Ontario. His main research interests are in philosophy of law, especially private law theory, and the history of political philosophy, especially the early modern period. He was a contributor to two earlier volumes in OUP's Philosophical Foundations of law series (on unjust enrichment and on property) and is co-editor, with Lisa Austin, of Private Law and the Rule of Law (OUP 2014).

Irit Samet is a Professor in The Dickson Poon School of Law, which she joined in 2008 after teaching in Oxford and Essex. Irit's main research interests lie in the areas of equity, property law, theory of private law, and ethics. Her monograph on the normative foundations of the law of equity was published by OUP in 2018. Irit has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals (such as the MLR, Jurisprudence, Kantian Review, and OJLS), as well as in edited collections published by OUP (such as Philosophical Foundations of Fiduciary Law and Philosophical Foundations of Property Law).

Henry E. Smith is Fessenden Professor of Law and the Director of the Project on the Foundations of Private Law at Harvard Law School. Previously, he taught at the Northwestern University School of Law and was the Fred A. Johnston Professor of Property and Environmental Law at Yale Law School. He has written extensively on property, equity, remedies, and private law theory.

Charlie Webb
Dennis Klimchuk
J E Penner
Andrew S. Gold
Paul B. Miller
Evan Fox-Decent
Lionel Smith
Larissa Katz
Ben McFarlane
Robert Stevens
Henry E. Smith
Samuel L. Bray
Emily Sherwin
Aruna Nair
Irit Samet
John C. P. Goldberg
Benjamin C. Zipursky
Simone Degeling
Matthew Harding
James Edelman

"[T]he papers in this collection contain much of interest." -- Professor the Hon WMC Gummow AC QC, Australian Law Journal

"This is a worthy bookEL its greatest strengths are its structure and eclectic writ-ing and sourcing, which invite readers to draw from a number of theories and cases, as well as their own experiences, to make up their own minds." -- David W. Thompson , Michigan Bar Journal Book Review