Download or read book The Idea of Private Law written by Ernest Joseph Weinrib and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private law applies to our deepest intuitions about personal responsibility and justice to the property we own and use, to the injuries we inflict or avoid, and to the contracts which me make or break. Rejecting the functionalism popular among legal scholars, Ernest Weinrib advances the provocative idea that private law is an autonomous and noninstrumental moral practice, with its own structure and rationality. His formalist approach repudiates the identification of law with politics or economics.