Estoppel

This is an essay about estoppel.

UNJUST ENRICHMENT AND RESTITUTION 2002
COURSE OUTLINE
Until relatively recently, most law students (and, for that matter, practitioners) had a mental map of the common law dominated by the legal “events” (or causes of action) known as contract and tort. The map left out a crucial and major third area of the law, namely, the law of unjust enrichment. This course seeks to fill that gap.
The course is also about the law of restitution, again, a widely ignored subject. Throughout law school you would have spent a lot of time on the law relating to the award of damages, compensation, injunctions, specific performance and the like – all different ways in which the law responds to breaches of contract, torts and other legal events. Robyn Carroll’s “Remedies” course aside, most subjects ignore arguably one of the most handy legal responses to a legal event, namely the gain-based response known as “restitutionâ�...