Article on Unjust Enrichment

Mark Leeming (Faculty of Law: Challis Lecturer in Equity, University of Sydney) recently published an article entitled,Subrogation, Equity and Unjust Enrichment, FAULT LINES IN EQUITY, J. Glister and P. Ridge, eds., Hart Publishing: Oxford, pp. 27-43 (2012); Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 12/52. The abstract from SSRN is provided below:

Is “unjust enrichment” merely a unifying theme, or is it something more, a legal norm in its own right capable of supplying answers to particular cases? Or, if that is a false distinction, and indeed “unjust enrichment” may be either, then what approach is more likely to result in a legal system whose operation is clear, certain and coherent? This paper is directed to those questions. It notes the highly divergent approaches to a single doctrine – subrogation – in the House of Lords and the High Court of Australia, with a view to evaluating which mode of reasoning leads to clarity, transparency and coherence.