Standing in Private Law: Powers of Enforcement in the Law of Obligations and Trusts (Oxford Private Law Theory)

Standing in Private Law: Powers of Enforcement in the Law of Obligations and Trusts develops the idea that we should attend more to 'standing', conceived as a power to hold another accountable before a court as a distinct private law concept.Prominent lawyers have claimed that private law does not have or need standing rules, yet this seems implausible.If private law is obligation-imposing, we need rules about who can sue on these obligations to hold their bearers accountable.This book argues that a reason why standing has been relatively overlooked and under-conceptualized, receiving meagre attention from private lawyers, is because it has been obscured from plain sight: it has been swallowed up by the more dominant and capacious concept of a 'right'.However, standing is a distinct and separable private law concept that can and should be distinguished more clearly from 'right'.Doing so is necessary for the continued rational development of private law doctrine.It is also necessary for