Birke Häcker - Selected Publications#

BOOKS

Consequences of Impaired Consent Transfers: A Structural Comparison of English and German Law
xxii + 386 pages (first published by Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, 2009; republished by Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2013)

Restitution of Overpaid Tax (jointly edited with Steven Elliott and Charles Mitchell)
xl + 326 pages (published by Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2013)

Current Issues in Succession Law (jointly edited with Charles Mitchell)
xxxiii + 280 pages (published by Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2016)

Collective Judging in Comparative Perspective: Counting Votes and Weighing Opinions (jointly edited with Wolfgang Ernst)
xxii + 344 pages (published by Intersentia Publishing, Cambridge, 2020)

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS (selection)

Proprietary Restitution after Impaired Consent Transfers: A Generalised Power Model
in: (2009) 68 Cambridge Law Journal (CLJ) 324-360

A Case Note on All Souls College v. Cod[d]]rington (1720)
in: (2012) 76 Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law (RabelsZ) 1051-1077

Mistaken Gifts after Pitt v Holt
in: (2014) 67 Current Legal Problems (CLP) 333-372

Divergence and Convergence in the Common Law – Lessons from the Ius Commune
in: (2015) 131 Law Quarterly Review (LQR) 424-453

What’s in a Will? – Examining the Modern Approach towards the Interpretation and Rectification of Testamentary Instruments
in: B. Häcker / C. Mitchell (eds), Current Issues in Succession Law (Hart Publishing, 2016) 131-167

Fait d’autrui in Comparative Perspective
in: J.-S. Borghetti / S. Whittaker (eds), French Civil Liability in Comparative Perspective (Hart Publishing, 2019) 143-177

'Substance Over Form': Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far?
in: A. Robertson / J. Goudkamp (eds), Form and Substance in the Law of Obligations (Hart Publishing, 2019) 35-69

Unjust Factors Versus Absence of Juristic Reason (causa)
in: E. Bant / K. Barker / S. Degeling (eds), Research Handbook on Unjust Enrichment and Restitution (Edward Elgar, 2020) 290-313