@inbook{00ac92929075472a96933babaf205887,
title = "Academics and Legal Change: Birks, Savigny and the Law of Unjust Enrichment",
abstract = "Legal academics have played and should continue to play a central role in the legal change and the legal reform. Taking the law of unjust enrichment as its litmus test, this chapter has explored the nature of the legal change with respect to the work of two forefathers of unjust enrichment: Peter Birks and Carl Friedrich von Savigny. The findings here are mixed. Both Birks and were legal revolutionaries. It was important for them to use the rhetoric of development, organic growth and historical consistency. Clearly, both scholars were devoted unifiers and allies of the systematicity notion. It does tell us something about legal change: legal academics are agents of change; the historical rhetoric mixed with the {\textquoteleft}unifying{\textquoteright} argument could much help in the advances of the revolution. ",
keywords = "legal academics, social change, unjust enrichment, Birks, Savigny",
author = "Sagi Peari",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1093/oso/9780192874146.003.0005",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780192874146",
pages = "77--100",
editor = "Warren Swain and Sagi Peari",
booktitle = "Rethinking Unjust Enrichment",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
address = "United Kingdom",
}