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Conference Programme

  • Day 1 - Wednesday 23 July (8.00am - 5.00pm)
  • Day 2 - Thursday 24 July (9.00am - 5.35pm)
  • Day 3 - Friday 25 July (9.00am - 6.00pm)

Day 2 – Thursday 24 July

9.00am
Keynote Address
  • Hanoch Dagan, 'Just and Unjust Enrichments'

10.00amParallel Session 1
 

Panel A

  • Emily Sherwin, 'The Rules of Obligations'
  • Peter Benson, 'Misfeasance as an Organizing Idea in Private Law'

Panel B

  • Birke Häcker, 'Proprietary Restitution After Impaired Consent Transfers: A Generalised Power Model'
  • Elise Bant, 'Causation in Decision-Making: Implications for Unjust Enrichment'

Panel C

  • Catherine Valcke, 'French and English Conceptions of Contract Law and French and English Conceptions of the State'
  • Dania Thomas, 'Contract, Context and Contest: Re-visiting Tito v. Waddell'
 
11.10amCoffee
 
11.40amParallel Session 2
 

Panel A

  • Tsachi Keren-Paz, 'Private Law Egalitarianism'
  • Christine Beuermann, 'Liability for Employment'

Panel B

  • Mindy Chen-Wishart, 'Why consideration?'
  • David Campbell, 'Better than Fuller: A Two Interest Model of Remedies for Breach of Contract'

Panel C

  • Yock Lin Tan, 'The Role of Deterrence in Equity and Trusts'
  • Katy Barnett, 'Letting the tail wag the dog: a critique of corrective justice with regard to disgorgement damages'
 
12.50pmLunch
 
02.00pmParallel Session 3
 

Panel A

  • Jenny Steele, 'Actions in tort and under the Human Rights Act: remedial or functional separation?'
  • Mark Wilde, 'The Goals of Tort in an Environmental Context'

Panel B

  • Simone Wong, 'The Iniquity of Equity: A Home-Sharer’s Tale'
  • Nicholas Hopkins, 'Private Law and Social Policy: Regulating Trusts of Land'

Panel C

  • James Edelman, 'Identifying Fiduciary Relationships'
  • Rebecca Lee, 'The goals of fiduciary obligation: a fundamental duty to act in the beneficiary’s best interests'?
 
03.10pmCoffee
 
03.50pmParallel Session 4
 

Panel A

  • Hang Wu Tang, 'Storytelling in the Law of Restitution'
  • Simone Degeling and Jillaine Seymour, 'Collective Claims in Unjust Enrichment'
  • Kelvin Low, 'Misnomer – A Sequel'

Panel B

  • Charlie Webb, 'Treating like cases alike: principle and classification in private law'
  • James Lee, 'Confusio: Developing English Private Law through Reference to Roman Law'
  • Chaim Saiman, 'Comparing the Discourse of Procedure and Substance in Anglo-American Private Law'

Panel C

  • Margaret Hall, 'Vicarious Liability, Systemic Negligence and Third Party Perpetrators: Special Relationships and the Creation of Risk'
  • Yap Po Jen, 'Enlisting Close Connections: A Matter of Course of Vicarious Liability'
 
05.35pmEnd of Day 2


Note: The speakers, titles of papers and order of speakers are subject to change.

 

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