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 3 – Friday 25 July

9.00am
Keynote Address
Stephen Perry, 'The Purpose of Tort Law'

10.00am Parallel Session 1

Panel A

Craig Rotherham, 'The Availability of Restitution for Wrongs and Private Law Theory'

Tony Duggan, 'Gains-Based Remedies In The Supreme Court Of Canada'

Panel B

Jason Neyers, 'The "Unlawful Means" Economic Torts as Corrective Justice'

Pey Woan Lee, 'Inducing Breach of Contract – The Tort In Search of a Contract Rationale'

11.10am Coffee

11.40am Parallel Session 2

Panel A

Sarah Worthington, TBA

Megan Richardson, 'Conan Doyle to James Joyce: Passing Off as a Personality Right and Implications for the Fan Fiction Plagiarism Debate'

Panel B

Kumaralingam Amirthalingam, 'Duty of Care in the 21st Century: A Comparative Common Law Analysis'

Erika Chamberlain, 'Negligent Investigation: Tort Law as Police Ombudsman'

Panel C

Mr Rick Canavan and Dr Séverine Saintier, 'A New Commercial Law for England'

David Brennan, 'Replevin and the paradox of English chattel property'

12.50pm Lunch

01.50pm Parallel Session 3

Panel A

Stephen Smith, 'The Goals of Private Law and the Goals of Courts'

Michael Bryan, 'Electing between Inconsistent Remedies in Private Law'

Panel B

François du Toit, 'A trustee’s fiduciary obligation and contingent beneficiary protection under South African law'

Keisuke Abe, 'Law Reform to Meet the Needs of the Aging Society?: Revision of Trust Law in Japan and a New Image of Trustees'

03.00pm Coffee

03.30pm
Plenary Session

Mayo Moran, 'The Mutually Constitutive Nature of Public and Private Law'

Lionel Smith, 'Finding the Limits of Private Law'

Steve Hedley, 'Looking outward or looking inward? Obligations scholarship in the 21st century'

05.15pm Closing Drinks

06.00pm End of Conference

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