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He originally studied at Trinity College, Oxford and subsequently obtained a master of laws from University College London.
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(Unjust Enrichment ) Author: Peter Birks Apr-2005
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English Private Law, Volume 2.
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ENGLISH PRIVATE LAW: VOLUME I.
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Peter Birks
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Career
He also become a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989, and an honorary Queen"s counsel in 1995. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is widely credited as having sparked academic enthusiasm for the English law of Restitution, and is often considered to have been one of the greatest English legal scholars of the 20th century.
Birks was also the first general editor of English Private Law, a book which sought to summarise and rationalise the entire scope of English private law, in accordance with Birks" own passionate belief for order and charactersiation within a discipline (law) which he regarded as too eclectic and inconsistent.
He also wrote An Introduction To The Law Of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, and wrote some 142 contributions to legal reviews. In Woolwich Building Society v Inland Revenue Commissioners the House of Lords substantially adopted the reasoning set out in an academic essay by Birks, described in the judgment of Lord Goff as "powerful".
Peter Birks arrived at his Kent grammar school (Chislehurst and Sidcup) in 1957 after a year at Repton and after spending his childhood in India. Professor Birks died of cancer, aged 62.
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