Includes bibliographical references and index.

Is remedies a subject? / Steve Hedley -- The modern history of remedies for breach of contract / Stephen Waddams -- The modern history of tort remedies in England and Wales / Paul Mitchell -- Personal injury compensation and civil justice paradigms / Annette Morris -- Remedies and reality in the law of contracts / Catherine Mitchell -- The limitations on reliance damages for breach of contract / David McLauchlan -- Restitution / Peter Jaffey -- Two conceptions of the performance interest in contract damages / David Winterton -- Equitable remedies for breach of trust / Duncan Sheehan -- Termination of contract for fundamental breach / Qiao Liu -- Literal enforcement of obligations / Andrew Tettenborn -- The recovery of damages for non-pecuniary loss in contract and tort : a unified approach / Roger Halson -- Remedies for common mistake and frustration / Catharine MacMillan --- Market damages in sales of goods and their relationship to the general principles of remedies for breach of contract / David Campbell -- The Consumer Rights Act 2015 and related reforms : an epic disappointment? / James Devenney -- Injunctions through the lens of nuisance / Robert Palmer and Ben Pontin -- Gain-based damages / Katy Barnett -- Remedies for breach of contract in Scots law / Laura Macgregor -- Australian perspectives on contract damages / Sirko harder -- Canadian perspectives on contract remedies / Jeff Berryman -- New Zealand perspectives on contract remedies / Rick Bigwood -- Remedies in international instruments / Ewan McKendrick, Qiao Liu and Xiang Ren -- Those magnificent men in their unifying machines : exploring the wreckage of the unification initiative in European private law / Mel Kenny -- Tort law and the tort system : from vindictiveness to vindication / Allan Beever -- The structure of remedial law / Stephen A. Smith -- Contract remedies as default rules / Jonathan Morgan -- A relational perspective on contract laws default rules, with an emphasis on remedies / William Whitford.

"This Research Handbook comprehensively and authoritatively reviews the contemporary challenges in research regarding remedies in private law. The Research Handbook on Remedies in Private Law focuses on the most important issues throughout contract, equity, restitution and tort law as they have arisen in the major common law jurisdictions, touching upon those of other jurisdictions where pertinent."--Publisher information.