Publications by Professor Helen Scott

Full list of publications by Professor Helen Scott.

  • Helen Scott, ‘Masters, Slaves and Insults: Rereading D. 47, 10, 15, 45‒48’, in Die unverzichtbare Wissenschaft – The Indispensable Science (eds B Gsell, T Rüfner and U Babusiaux), Mohr Siebeck, 2026
  • Helen Scott, ‘Comparative models and their limitations: Edwin Cameron's impact on the law of trusts and unjustified enrichment’, in Edwin Cameron: Influences and Impact (eds Nurina Ally and Leo Boonzaier), Pretoria University Law Press, 2025
  • Helen Scott, ‘Chasing, Lying and Persuading: D 47.2.52.19 – 24 in Context’, in Essays in Law and History for David Ibbetson (eds Joe Sampson and Stelios Tofaris), Hart Publishing, 2024
  • Helen Scott, ‘Property | Unjust Enrichment’, in Borderlines in Private Law (eds William Day and Julius Grower), Oxford University Press, 2024
  • Helen Scott, ‘Mistake of Law, Again’, in Shaping the Law of Obligations: Essays in Honour of Professor Ewan McKendrick (eds Edwin Peel and Rebecca Probert), Oxford University Press, 2023
  • Helen Scott, ‘What Mistake Can Do’, in Iurium Itinera: Historische Rechtsvergleichung und vergleichende Rechtsgeschichte (eds Nils Jansen and Sonja Meier), Mohr Siebeck, 2022
  • Helen Scott, ‘Comparative taxonomy: an introduction’, in Research Handbook on Unjust Enrichment and Restitution (eds Elise Bant, Kit Barker and Simone Degeling), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020
  • Helen Scott, Robin Evans Jones, ‘Lord Atkin, Donoghue v Stevenson and the Lex Aquilia: Civilian Roots of the “Neighbour” Principle’, in Wrongful Damage to Property in Roman Law (eds Paul J du Plessis), Edinburgh University Press, 2018
  • Helen Scott, Anton Fagan, ‘Regulating Risk Through Private Law: South Africa’, in Regulating Risk Through Private Law (eds Matthew Dyson), Intersentia, 2018
  • Helen Scott, ‘Reflections on the Restitution Revolution: South Africa’, in Revolution and Evolution in Private Law (eds Sarah Worthington, Andrew Robertson and Graham Virgo), Hart Publishing, 2018
  • Helen Scott, ‘The Death of Doctrine?—Private Law Scholarship in South African Today’, in Legislators, Judges, and Professors (eds Jürgen Basedow, Holger Fleischer and Reinhard Zimmermann), Mohr Siebeck, 2016
  • Helen Scott, ‘Defence, Denial or Cause of Action? “Enrichment Owed” and the Absence of a Legal Ground’, in Defences in Unjust Enrichment (eds Andrew Dyson, James Goudkamp and Frederick Wilmot-Smith), Bloomsbury, 2016
  • Helen Scott, ‘Liber homo suo nomine utilem Aquiliae habet actionem: D. 9,2,13 pr in context’, in Inter cives necnon peregrinos: Essays in honour of Boudewijn Sirks (eds Jan Hallebeek, Martin Schermaier, Roberto Fiori, Ernest Metzger and Jean-Pierre Coriat), Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2014
  • Helen Scott, ‘Contumelia and the South African Law of Defamation’’, in Iniuria and the Common Law (eds Eric Descheemaeker and Helen Scott), Hart Publishing, 2013
  • Helen Scott, Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Iniuria and the Common Law’’, in Iniuria and the Common Law (eds Eric Descheemaeker and Helen Scott), Hart Publishing, 2013
  • Helen Scott, ‘Pits and Pruners: Culpa and Social Practice in Digest 9.2’, in Judge and Jurist: Essays in Memory of Lord Rodger of Earslferry (eds Andrew Burrows, David Johnston and Reinhard Zimmermann), Oxford University Press, 2013
  • Helen Scott, Daniel Visser, ‘The impact of legal culture on the law of unjustified enrichment: the role of reasons’, in Exploring Private Law (eds Elise Bant and Matthew Harding), 2010