Dr Christine Beuermann is a senior lecturer at Newcastle Law School. She researches in private law, particularly tort theory. Her research has been cited by the highest courts in both Australia and England and Wales. In 2019, she published Reconceptualising Strict Liability for the Tort of Another with Hart. She is currently working on a book on tort theory and will be a co-author on the new edition of The Law of Torts in Australia by OUP with Professors Kit Barker (UK) and Mark Lunney (UNE). Christine was a Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor to the Faculty of Law in the University of Cambridge in 2018.