Private Law in the 21st Century
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TT Arvind, Newcastle University, UK & Joanna Gray, Birmingham University, UK The Limits of Technocracy: Private Law’s Future in the Regulatory State.
Professor Susanne Augenhofer, Humboldt University, Berlin. “Self-Regulation and the Interface of Consumer Protection and Corporate Governance.”
Dr Francesca Bartlett, University of Queensland Making Lawyers ‘litigate like adults’ – the Expansion of Costs Awards against Lawyers.
Dr Justine Bell and Professor Kit Barker, University of Queensland Public Authority Liability for Negligence in the post-Ipp Era: Sceptical Reflections on the “Policy Defence”
Wendy Bonython, Assistant Professor, School of Law and Justice, Faculty of Business Government and Law, University of Canberra Power Failure? The Distracting Effect of Legislation on Common Law Torts.
Professor Andrew Burrows, University of Oxford, England Challenges for Private Law in the 21st Century. (Keynote)
Professor Robyn Carroll (University of Western Australia, Australia) and Professor Jeff Berryman(University of Windsor, Canada) Offers to Make Amends for Defamatory Publications – Comparison and Critique.
Professor Erika Chamberlain, Faculty of Law, Western University, Canada Snooping: How Should Damages be Assessed for Harmless Breaches of Privacy?
Professor Hugh Collins, Vinerian Professor of English Law, All Souls College Oxford The Challenge Presented by Fundamental Rights to Private Law. (Keynote)
Tatiana Cutts, University of Birmingham Money in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing.
Professor Hanoch Dagan, University of Tel-Aviv The Challenges of Private Law. (Keynote)
Professor Joachim Dietrich (Bond) and Professor Pauline Ridge (ANU) Taxonomy and Making Sense of Complexity: Is There a Need for A ‘Law of Accessory Liability’?
Justice James Edelman, Federal Court of Australia Vindicatory Damages. (Keynote)
Associate Professor Neil Foster, Newcastle Law School, NSW. ‘Reforming the Action for Breach of Statutory Duty in the 21st century: Reconsidering the “section of the public” Rule.’
Professor Joshua Getzler, University of Oxford. Common Law and the Making of Financial Markets: Credit Ratings Agencies as a Test Case
Carlo Vittorio Giabardo, University of Turin Private Law in the Age of the ‘Vanishing Trial.’
Imogen Goold, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and Simon Douglas, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford A Public Property Approach to Human Tissues (draft title).
Dr Genevieve Grant (Monash University); Dr Kylie BurnsDr Ros HarringtonProfessor Elizabeth KendallDr Annick Maujean (Griffith University);Professor Prue Vines (UNSW) When Lump Sums run out: Disputes at the Borderline of Tort law, Injury Compensation and Social Security.
Martin A. Hogg, Professor of the Law of Obligations, University of Edinburgh Codification of Private law: Scots Law at the Crossroads of Common and Civil Law.”
Darryn Jensen Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of the South Pacific Constructive Trusteeship –The perils of Statutory Formulae.
Professor Tsachi Keren-Paz, Keele Law School. Compensating Injury to Autonomy: A Conceptual and Normative Analysis
Professor Barbara McDonald, University of Sydney Law Reform, Legislation and the Common Law.
Kathryn McMillan QC and Janice Crawford, Barrister at Law Is ‘Access to Justice’ Political Puffery, or Does it Mean Anything in the real world?
Dr Eliza Mik, Singapore Management University School of Law Persuasive Technologies – From Loss of Privacy to Loss of Autonomy.
Annette Morris, Reader, Cardiff University Tort and Economic Liberalisation.
Associate Professor David Rolph, University of Sydney. The Interaction of Defamation and Privacy.
Zoë Sinel and Anne Schuurman, University of Western Ontario Matter Over Mind: Tort Law’s Treatment of Emotional Injury.
Professor Henry E. Smith, Harvard University Fusing the Equitable Function in Private Law(keynote)
Professor Warren Swain, University of Auckland. ‘The Steaming Lungs of a Pigeon’, Predicting the Direction of Australian Contract Law in the C21st.
Professor Andrew Tettenborn, Swansea University. “I’ll Perform if and when you do”: The Suspension of Contractual Duties.
Professor Prue Vines, University of New South Wales Apologies as “Canaries” -Tortious Liability in Negligence and Insurance in the 21st Century.

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