Speakers

Professor Keisuke Abe (Seikei University)

Keisuke Abe is a Professor of Comparative Law and Head of the Department of Law at Seikei University, a private university affiliated with Mitsubishi Group. A graduate of the University of Tokyo (LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D.) and of Harvard Law School (LL.M.), he teaches Constitutional Law, Bioethics and Law, and Business Ethics and Law. Professor Abe has been a member of the Trust Law Study Group at the Trust Companies Association of Japan since 2005; his most recent article, entitled "The Changing Legal Status of Animals and the Responsibility of Pet Owners: An International Perspective," examines the various issues and concerns raised by the increase in the number of pet owners living alone (currently around 2.8 million in Japan), and highlights the necessity of estate planning for pets. Click here to see more ...

Kumaralingam Amirthalingam (NUS)

Kumaralingam Amirthalingam is a graduate of the Australian National University where he began his teaching career in 1994. His main areas of research are in criminal law and torts. His criminal law work deals mainly with issues of fault and the rights of vulnerable members in society. His torts work has focused on negligence, in particularly medical liability and pure economic loss. Click to see more ...

Roderick Bagshaw (Oxford)

Roderick Bagshaw is Tutor and Fellow in Law at Magdalen College and a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law. He teaches undergraduate courses in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law and Tort Law, and on the postgraduate BCL Evidence course.

Recent publications include: 'Monetary Remedies in Public Law - Misdiagnosis and Misprescription' (2006) 26 Legal Studies 4-25; 'Unauthorized Wedding Photographs' (2005) 121 Law Quarterly Review 550-555; 'Phipson on Evidence, Sixteenth edition' in , (Sweet & Maxwell Ltd 2005); Tort Law, Second Edition (Pearson Education 2005); and 'Private Nuisance and Defence of the Realm' (2004) 120 Law Quarterly Review 37-41

Elise Bant (Oxford)

Elise Bant's research interests include Equity, Trusts, Property and The Law of Restitution.

Katy Barnett (Melbourne)

Katy Barnett is a doctoral candidate and sessional lecturer at Melbourne Law School. She is presently completing a PhD thesis on disgorgement damages for breach of contract and corrective justice.

Prior to teaching at the Melbourne Law School, Katy held a variety of positions, including banking litigator at Russell Kennedy, Associate to Justice Mandie at the Supreme Court of Victoria and Research Assistantto the Court of Appeal at the Supreme Court of Victoria.

Katy has taught Property II, Equity and Trusts, Trusts and is presently teaching Property. Her research interests include theory of private law and remedies, as well as Equity Law. Click here to see more ....

Professor Peter Benson (Toronto)

Peter Benson joined the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law in 1998, where he became a full professor in 2000. His academic experience includes law degrees from Harvard and the University of Toronto, as well as an M.Sc. in Politics from the London School of Economics and an undergraduate degree in Sociology from Harvard. Professor Benson worked for Chief Justice Bora Laskin of the Supreme Court of Canada as a law clerk.

His teaching and writing focus on contract law, tort law, the theory of private law, and theories of justice. His recent publications include contributions to The Theory of Contract Law: New Essays (ed. Peter Benson, Cambridge University Press, 2001) and The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence. His work has also been published in journals including Political Theory, The Columbia Law Review, The Iowa Law Review, The Cardozo Law Review, and The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. Click to see more ...

Christine Beuermann (Tasmania)

Christine is a lecturer at the University of Tasmania. She teaches contract, tort and equity and her main research interest is the interrelationship between those different obligations. Prior to joining academia, Christine was a senior associate in the commercial advisory group at Blake Dawson Waldron. She has also worked in London with Slaughter and May. Christine was educated at Griffith University and the University of Oxford and is currently completing a PhD at the ANU on the special relationships in tort.

David Brennan (Melbourne)

David Brennan has recently completed a journal article on a novel economic justification for trade mark property, tying that justification to Coase's firm theory. He is currently working on a historical anlysis of replevin in understanding the nature of exclusive rights in personal property. His 2003 book provided an extensive analysis of US retransmission law. David's primary fields of research and teaching are patent and copyright law, with a particular focus upon their interface with other private law regimes such as contract, property and restitution. He undertakes his research within economic and historical frameworks.

David provides copyright consultancy services to peak bodies in the Australian copyright industry. In this capacity he has participated extensively in copyright law reform and in royalty-setting determinations. He is a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Council of Australia and is the editor of the Australian Intellectual Property Journal. Click here to see more ...

Professor Michael Bryan (Melbourne)

Professor Michael Bryan was educated at Oxford University and at London University. Michael has taught at Oriel College, Oxford, and Queen Mary College, London University. He is a Professor of Law, acting as Deputy Dean from 1999 to 2003. He is currently one of the directors of the Melbourne JD program.

He has researched and published extensively in the areas of equity, trusts and restitution. He is co-author (with A. Duggan and F. Hanks) of The Law of Non-Disclosure (Longmans 1995) and an editor of Ford and Lee, The Law of Trusts (Thomson 2003). Click here to see more ...

Professor David Campbell (Durham)

David Campbell was educated at Cardiff University, UK (BSc(Econ) 1980), the University of Michigan (LLM 1985), and the University of Edinburgh (PhD 1985). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

He has written on a wide range of legal and social scientific issues. His principal recent publications are The Implicit Dimensions of Contract (with H Collins and J Wightman, eds 2003), Remedies in Contract and Tort (with D Harris and R Halson 2002), and an edited collection of the works of Ian Macneil: IR Macneil, The Relational Theory of Contract, ed D Campbell (2001).

His main current research interests are in remedies for non-performance of contractual obligations and in regulatory theory, and particularly in the development of a ‘non-Chicagoan’ law and economics of these subjects. He is currently working on a book on Coase’s critique of intervention. Click to see more ...

Rick Canavan (Sheffield)

Rick Canavan read for bachelors and masters degrees in law and commercial law respectively at the University of Sheffield before accepting an Arts an Humanities Research Council scholarship to read for a Ph.D considering the impact of the commodity trades on the interpretation of commercial contracts at the same institution. Rick's research interests lie generally within the area of commercial and contract law, particularly sales law, international trade law and issues surrounding the interpretation of contracts.

Rick has a broad range of teaching interests, centred around contract and commercial law but ranging also across the law of torts and land law. He is due to take up a lectureship at the University of Hull in February 2008.

Robyn Carroll (UWA)

Ms Robyn Carroll is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia Law School. Her teaching and research interests include Contract Law, Civil Remedies, Dispute Resolution and Family Law. Robyn has published articles on assessment of damages, apologies and their remedial role, immunity of mediators, statutory use of mediation and power issues in mediation. She organised a Remedies Conference held in Western Australia in 1995 and was a contributor to and editor of Civil Remedies: Issues and Developments, a collection of papers from that conference, published by the Centre for Commercial and Resources Law and the Federation Press (1996). Click here to see more ...

Erika Chamberlain (UWO)

Erika was the Gold Medalist in her graduating year (2001) from Western Law. She served as a clerk to Mr. Justice Major at the Supreme Court of Canada and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2002. She was awarded a Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship, the W.M. Tapp Studentship in Law (Gonville and Caius College), and a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Her doctoral thesis is entitled "Duty: A Conceptual History of Negligence in the Twentieth Century." Her main research interests are tort law, legal history, and impaired driving law. Click here to see more ...

Mindy Chen-Wishart (Oxford)

Mindy Chen-Wishart is a Reader in Contract Law at the Law Faculty of Oxford University. She is also a Fellow in Law at Merton College, Oxford. She has taught law since 1985. Until 1992, she was a Senior Lecturer at Otago University in New Zealand. She then spent two years as the Rhodes Research Fellow at St. Hilda's College, Oxford before taking up her current position.

She teaches Contract and Philosophical Foundations of the Common Law (and has previously also taught Restitution, Torts, Administrative Law, Consumer Protection Law and Introduction to Law). She is involved with graduate students working in topics in Contract and Restitution. Click to see more ...

Dr. Simone Degeling (UNSW)

BCom LLB UNSW, LLM Lond., DPhil Oxf.

Dr. Simone Degeling's research interests include: Law of unjust enrichment/restitution, Commercial law, Equity and trusts, Banking law.

Click here to see more ...

Professor Anthony Duggan (Toronto)

Tony Duggan holds the Hon. Frank H. Iacobucci Chair in the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. He is also a Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He was Associate Dean at Toronto from 2002-2004. Before moving to Toronto eight years ago, he held the Henry Bournes Higgins Chair in the Faculty of Law at Monash University. His current teaching and research interests include Secured Transactions, Bankruptcy Law and Equity and Trusts.

His publications in the equity and trusts/restitution field include: "Is Equity Efficient?" (1997) 113 Law Quarterly Review 601-36; "Constructive Trusts from A Law and Economics Perspective" (2005) 55 University of Toronto Law Journal 217;"Constructive Trusts and the Deemed Agency Limitation" (2004) 83 Canadian Bar Review 151-160; "Tracing, Canadian Style: Re Graphicshoppe and Other Recent Cases" (2006) 43 Canadian Business Law Journal 292-300; also published in (2006) 80 Australian Law Journal 495-499; "Exemplary Damages in Equity: A Law and Economics Perspective" (2006) 26 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 303-326. Click here to see more ...

Arlen Duke (Melbourne)

Arlen graduated from the University of Melbourne with First Class Honours in his LLB. He also completed a Bachelor of Commerce, and is close to completing his Masters of Law.

Arlen's main research interests include: the regulation of anti-competitive practices, consumer protection, the law of obligations, law and economics and contract law. Click here to see more ...

James Edelman (Oxford)

James Edelman is a Fellow at Keble College and lecturer in the Faculty of Law. His teaching interests are in the areas of restitution, trusts, tort and Roman law. Prior to coming to Oxford he taught and practised as a barrister in Western Australia (where he maintains chambers and remains an Adjunct Professor of Law). He also teaches for the exchange programme as an Adjunct Professor for Ohio State and Georgia Law Schools.

Recent Publications: 'Torts' in , (English Private Law (2nd edition) 2007); 'All England Annual Review: Restitution' in , (LexisNexisButterworths 2006); 'The meaning of unjust in the English law of unjust enrichment' (2006) 14 European Review of Private Law 409-421; 'Review of Zakrzewski “Remedies Reclassified”' (2006) 17 King's College Law Journal 194-7; 'Gain-based damages and compensation' in , (in A Burrows and A Rodger Mapping the Law: Essays for Peter Birks 2006) Click here to see more ...

Neil Foster (Newcastle)

Neil Foster is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Newcastle, NSW. He teaches in the areas of Torts, Intellectual Property and Occupational Health and Safety Law. He has published in these areas and in the area of Property, and is a member of the Editorial Board of the Torts Law Journal.

Recent publications include "Trees and Nuisance in NSW" (2007) 81 Australian Law Journal: 291 - 294; "The CAMAC Report on Personal Liability for Corporate Fault - A Critique from the OHS Perspective" (2007) 20(1) Australian Journal of Labour Law 112; Property Law in NSW (2nd ed; Chatswood: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2007) (co-authored with Brendon Edgeworth, Janice Gray and Scott Grattan). Click here to see more ...

Dr. David Fox (Cambridge)

David Fox is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law and a Fellow of St John's College in the University of Cambridge. He lectures on the Equity, Personal Property, Restitution and Commercial Equity courses, and supervises undergraduates in Equity, Land Law and Roman Law.

His main interests lie in the operation of express trusts and in the legal nature of money.

Eddy Gisonda (Assistant to High Court of Australia)

Eddy Gisonda's primary interest is in the field of contract law, and has tutored in both contract and private law obligations. He is currently writing a thesis on contract law and political philosophy at the University of Melbourne. He is an associate to Mr Justice Hayne at the High Court of Australia.

Birke Häcker (Oxford)

Birke Häcker is a Fellow of All Souls College and a Lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She read law at the Universities of Oxford, Tübingen and Bonn, obtaining both an English and a German law degree. Her research interests lie in core areas of private law (mainly contract, tort, trusts, restitution, and personal property), with a particular focus on the historical and comparative perspective. She teaches Contract and Roman Law and recently completed her D.Phil. with a doctoral thesis entitled 'Consequences of Impaired Consent Transfers: A Structural Comparison of English and German Law'. Click here to see more ...

Margaret Hall (UBC)

Margaret Hall joined the UBC Faculty of Law in 2004 in the capacity of Lecturer and Director of the Legal Research and Writing Program, being appointed to the position of Assistant Professor in July 2006. Prior to joining the Faculty, Professor Hall was Program Director of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies and a Staff Lawyer at the British Columbia Law Institute, working in the area of law reform. Professor Hall has also taught law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law and the Native Law Centre at the University of Saskatchewan.

Her research interests include: Torts, Children and the Law, Law and aging issues, Public authority liability, and Family Law. Her recent publications include: "Institutional Tort Feasors: Systemic Negligence and the Class Action" Tort Law Journal Issue 2 (forthcoming 2006); "Equitable Fraud: Material Exploitation in Domestic Settings" Vol. 4 Elder Law Review (Australia) (forthcoming, 2006); "Duty, Causation and Third Party Perpetrators: The Bonnie Mooney Case" 50 McGill Law Journal 597 (2005). Click here to see more ...

Pamela Hanrahan (Melbourne)

Pamela Hanrahan is one of Australia's leading experts in the areas of funds management law and financial services regulation. She is Director of Studies of the Law School's graduate program in Banking and Financial Services Law and Deputy Director of the University's Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation.

She has published widely in areas of financial services regulation, funds management law, and corporations and securities law. She is author of Managed Investments Law & Practice (CCH, 1999), which is the leading Australian text on the law of managed investment schemes, and is a co-author of the Australian, Singaporean, Malaysian and New Zealand editions of Commercial Applications of Company Law (CCH, 2000) and the sixth edition of Securities and Financial Services Law (LexisNexis, 2003). Her new book, Funds Management in Australia: Officers' Duties and Liabilities, will be published by LexisNexis in mid 2007. Click here to see more ...

Dr Matthew Harding (Melbourne)

Matthew graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1998 with first class honours degrees in law and in arts. He also holds a Bachelor of Civil Laws degree and a D.Phil from the University of Oxford. During his time as a postgraduate student in Oxford, Matthew held Chevening and Clarendon Fund Scholarships and, during 2002-3, a research fellowship funded by the Andrew Mellon Foundation. His D.Phil thesis was on the moral foundations of fiduciary law.

Matthew has written on the nature of interpersonal trust and trustworthiness, fiduciary law, equity and property, and the law of charity. His recent work includes 'Barnes v Addy Claims and the Indefeasibility of Torrens Title' (2007) 31 Melbourne University Law Review 343, 'Trusts for Religious Purposes and the Question of Public Benefit' (forthcoming, (2008) 71 Modern Law Review) and 'Two Fiduciary Fallacies' (forthcoming (2007) 2 Journal of Equity). He is currently researching topics in property law, the law of fiduciaries and the law relating to charitable trusts. Click here to see more ...

Professor Steve Hedley (UCC)

Steve joined the Faculty of Law of University College Cork in September 2003, after 18 years at Cambridge in England. He graduated from Oxford in 1980, completing a Masters' at Cambridge in 1981 and the Bar Finals in London in 1982.

Steve has written textbooks on Tort (latest edition 2004) and Restitution (2001), as well as an account of the theory of Restitution (Restitution: Its division and ordering, 2001). He has also co-edited (with M Halliwell) a reference work on Restitution, compiled two books of statutory materials, and runs a website on restitutionary issues.

His recent work includes: "The taxonomic approach to restitution" in A Hudson (ed), New perspectives on property law, obligations and restitution (2003) 151; "Nations, markets and other imaginary places: Who makes the law in cyberspace?" (2003) 12 Info & Comms Tech Law 215-224; "Implied contract and restitution" [2004] Cambridge Law Jour 435; and "Unjust enrichment: The same mistake?", in A Robertson (ed), The law of obligations: Connections and boundaries (Cavendish, 2004) 75; Click here to see more ...

Professor Lusina Ho (HKU)

Lusina Ho is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong.

Her research interests include: Obligations, Restitution, Trusts, Non-profit Law.

Click to see more ...

Nicholas Hopkins (Southampton)

His research interests lie in property law, particularly informal rights in land and the interrelation between land law and other branches of law, including equity, unjust enrichment, family, housing policy and social security. He is the author of "The Informal Acquisition of Rights in Land", Sweet & Maxwell (Modern Legal Studies), 2000 and has presented work at numerous conferences in the UK and overseas, including the SLS Annual Conference (2006, 2005 and 2000); Australasian Real Property Law Teachers’ Conference (2007 and 2004); SLSA Annual Conference (2006); Biennial Conference of the Centre of Property Law, University of Reading (2006 and 2002); Obligations II (2004). Click here to see more ...

James Lee (Reading)

James Lee is currently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Reading, where he teaches Tort, Equity and Trusts and General Principles of Law. James will take up a Lectureship at the University of Birmingham in June 2008. His research interests lie in jurisprudence and the law of obligations, with particular focus on judicial reasoning in superior appellate courts. His publications include "Restoring Confidence in the Economic Torts" (2007) 15(3) Tort Law Review 172-176 and "Changing Position on Change of Position" (2007) 15 Restitution Law Review 135-141. Click here to see more ...

Lee Pey Woan (SMU)

BCL, Oxford University, 1992; LLB, King's College, University of London (First Class Honours), 1990; Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore), 1993

Lee Pey Woan is an Associate Professor of Law at Singapore Management University. Her interests include: Company Law, Contract and Commercial Law

Click here to see more ...

Rebecca Lee (HKU)

Rebecca Lee is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong.

Her research interests include: Equity and Trusts.

Click here to see more ...

Alexander Loke Fay Hoong (NUS)

Alexander F H Loke LLB (Hons) (NUS) LLM (Columbia) is an Associate Professor at NUS with research interests in contract law, international business transactions, corporate finance and securities regulation. He was Visiting Associate Professor, East China University (2002), Visiting Scholar, Columbia University (2000-2001), and Visiting Lecturer, Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City (1999). He was a contributor to Halsbury Laws of Singapore vol 7: Contracts.

His representative publications include: A (Behavioural) Law and Economics Approach to Reforming Asian Corporate Governance (2002) 20 C & S LJ 250, Working out the private offer exemption: From concept to safe harbours (2001) 13 Aus Jnl of Corp Law 39, Fiduciary Duties and Implied Duties of Good Faith in Contractual Joint Ventures [1999] JBL 538, The Malaysian capital controls of 1998 and Ringgit denominated deposits in Singapore (1999) 15 JCL 10, The valuer's liability for negligent valuation toward a more principled allocation of the risk of market decline (1999) 1 LS 47. Click to see more ...

Kelvin Low (HKU)

Kelvin F.K. Low is an Assistant Professor with the University of Hong Kong, having previously taught at the National University of Singapore. His principal interests lie in the law of contract, the law of trusts and the law of unjust enrichment. Recent publications include "Unjust Enrichment & Proprietary Estoppel: Two Sides of the Same Coin?" [2007] LMCLQ 14, "Presumption of Advancement: A Renaissance?" (2007) 123 LQR 347 and "Repair, Rejection & Rescission: An Uneasy Resolution" (2007) 123 LQR 536. He has also contributed a chapter on "Sale of Land" to the forthcoming Chitty on Contracts: Singapore Specific Contracts.

Click here to see more ...

Professor William Lucy (Manchester)

Professor William Lucy studied law, jurisprudence and political philosophy as an undergraduate and postgraduate at the Universities of Leeds and Manchester. He taught law at the Universities of Essex, Hull, Keele and Cardiff before arriving at Manchester in 2006. He has been a visiting professor at a number of Universities, most recently during winter 2005 at the Law Faculty, McGill University, Montreal. In the summer of 2007 he was a visiting fellow at the John Fleming Centre for the Advancement of Legal Research at the College of Law, Australian National University, Canberra.

His research interests lie in the fields of jurisprudence and private law (contract, tort, restitution and property) and the various overlaps and disjunctions between them. Click here to see more ...

Ben McFarlane (Oxford)

Ben McFarlane is a University Lecturer in Property Law and Trusts. His recent publications include: 'The Problem of Pre-Contractual Reliance: Three Ways to a Third Way' (2006) Hauser Global Law School - Working Papers Series; 'Personal Liability in Proprietary Estoppel' (2005) [2005] Conveyancer & Property Lawyer 14-31; 'Proprietary Estoppel and Property Rights' (2005) (2005) 64 Cambridge Law Journal 449-480; 'The Enforcement of Non-Contractual Agreements to Dispose of Interests in Land' (2005) (2005) 16 Kings College Law Journal 174-186; 'Proprietary Estoppel and Failed Contractual Negotiations' (2005) [2005] Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 501-523. Click here to see more ...

Professor John Mee (UCC)

John Mee is a graduate of University College Cork (BCL 1986; LLM 1987), Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto (LLM 1989) and Trinity College Dublin (PhD 1997) and was called to the Irish Bar in 1990. He began lecturing in the UCC Law Department in 1989 and served as Dean of the Faculty of Law at UCC from 1999-2000. He has published three books, The Property Rights of Cohabitees (Hart Publishing, 1999), Land Law, 2nd ed (with Pearce) (Round Hall Press, 2000) and Law and Taxation of Trusts (with Wylie and Keogan) (Tottel, 2007) well as articles in Irish and international journals. His research interests are in the areas of property, equity and the law of family property, with a special interest in law reform. He is a trustee director of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII). Click here to see more ...

Professor Mayo Moran (Toronto)

Professor Mayo Moran is Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto effective January 1, 2006.

Professor Moran has published in comparative constitutional law, private law, and legal and feminist theory. Her book Rethinking the Reasonable Person was published in 2003 by Oxford University Press. In 2005, she was co-editor with Prof. David Dyzenhaus of Calling Power to Account: Law, Reparations and the Chinese Canadian Head Tax Case, a book of essays published by the University of Toronto Press. Prof. Moran has also organized a number of conferences. These include a colloquium entitled "Facing the Legacy of Indian Residential Schools in Canada: International Lessons in Truth, Reparation and Reconciliation" co-organized with Professor Darlene Johnston and the International Centre for Transitional Justice (Sept 2005), "Equality: The Heart of a Just Society--Looking Back, Looking Forward" with Professor Lorraine Weinrib and the Department of Justice (October 2005), and "Achieving Human Rights in a Multicultural Society: Reparations, Human Rights and the Limits of Law" with Professor David Dyzenhaus (2003). Click to see more ...

Jason Neyers (UWO)

Jason W. Neyers, BA (UWO), LLB (McGill), MST (Oxon), called to the Bar of Ontario. Professor Neyers joined the Faculty of Law in 2000 after clerking at the Ontario Court of Appeal. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of torts, restitution, corporate and contract law. He has published numerous papers and comments in leading law journals, including the Law Quarterly Review, the University of Toronto Law Journal, the McGill Law Journal, the Singapore Journal of Legal Studies, the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, the Canadian Business Law Journal, the Alberta Law Journal, the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, the Journal of Obligations & Remedies and the Insurance Law Journal.

He is also a co-editor of four books: Emerging Issues in Tort Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2007), Understanding Unjust Enrichment (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2004), The Law of Restitution in Canada: Cases and Materials (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2004) and Cases and Materials on Contract, 3d ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2005). His work has been cited by the High Court of Australia and he has also served as a consultant on cases before the Supreme Court of Canada. Professor Neyers is the moderator of the Obligations Discussion Group (ODG), which is an international mailing list devoted to all aspects of the law of obligations. Click here to see more ...

Donal Nolan (Oxford)

Donal Nolan has been a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford, and a CUF Lecturer in Law in the University of Oxford since 2000. He was previously a Lecturer in Law at King's College London. He has taught Tort, Contract, International Trade Law, Restitution and Commercial Law. His research interests lie in Tort (especially negligence), Contract and Equitable Estoppel.

He has published on a range of subjects in the law of obligations, including liability for psychiatric injury, public authority liability, privity of contract and equitable estoppel. Recent publications include 'The Distinctiveness of Rylands v Fletcher' (2005) 121 Law Quarterly Review 421-451; 'Reforming Liability for Psychiatric Injury in Scotland: A Recipe for Uncertainty?' (2005) 68 Modern Law Review 983-996; and 'New Forms of Damage in Negligence' (2007) 70 Modern Law Review 59-88. He has also written the chapters on nuisance, Rylands v Fletcher, product liability and government liability in the Butterworths Common Law Series book 'The Law of Tort', the second edition of which will be published in 2007. Click to see more ...

Richard Nolan (Cambridge)

Richard Nolan is a Reader at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include: Trusts (particularly express trusts, and equitable property), Corporate law, Commercial aspects of fiduciary duties, Securities regulation and Jurisprudence.

His recent publications include: "The Legal Control of Directors' Conflicts of Interest in the United Kingdom: Non-Executive Directors Following the Higgs Report” Ch 11 in After Enron (eds Armour & McCahery), "Shareholder Rights in Britain" (2006) 7 European Business Organisation Law Review 549 - 588, "Understanding the Limits of Equitable Property" (2006) 1 Journal of Equity 18 - 40, "Equitable Property" (2006) 122 Law Quarterly Review 232 - 265, "The Continuing Evolution of Shareholder Governance" [2006] Cambridge Law Journal 92 - 126. Click to see more ...

Dr. Jeannie Marie Paterson (Monash)

BA/LLB (Hons)(ANU) PhD(Monash), Solicitor Victoria and High Court of Australia. Dr Paterson worked as a solicitor at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in the area of Banking and Finance Law before taking a position as a lecturer at the Faculty of Law Monash University. Her teaching and research interests are in Contract, Consumer and Credit Law. Dr Paterson is co-author of Principles of Contract Law (2nd ed, 2005) and Contract: Cases and Materials (10th ed, 2005).

Dr. Tsachi Keren-Paz (Keele)

Before joining Keele Law School in August 2007, Tsachi has been a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the College of Management, School of Law, Israel between 2001 and 2007. Tsachi has taught in the past in Tel Aviv, Bar-Ilan and Montreal universities and visited at Cornell University.

His main research interests are: tort law, private law theory, egalitarianism in private law, and private law responses to the problem of sex trafficking. His work explains law as a social construct, understands it in its social context and inculcates egalitarianism into private law theory and doctrine. Some of these themes are developed in depth in his book Torts, Egalitarianism and Distributive Justice (Ashgate 2007). Other areas of interest are unjust enrichment, the relationship between gain- and loss-based remedies, and the relationship between restitution and forfeiture. His research examined the following doctrinal issues: standard and duty of care, compensation rules, informed consent and the protection of autonomy, evaluating Prohibiting Profiting from Recounting Crimes legislation, and comparing labour, unjust enrichment, and tort responses to sex trafficking. Click here to see more ...

Megan Richardson (Melbourne)

Megan Richardson received her BA.LLB from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She has an LLM from Yale University, where she was a Fulbright scholar, and an LLM in comparative law from the Free University of Brussels. Prior to her appointment at the University of Melbourne, Megan was a Senior Legal Research Officer at the New Zealand Law Commission and for a brief time worked at the Victorian Law Reform Commission and Australian Law Reform Commission. She has also worked as a solicitor practising commercial law at Chapman Tripp Sheffield Young in Wellington. Particular areas of academic interest and expertise are in the fields of intellectual property and privacy.

Her research interests include: Breach of confidence and privacy, contract law, intellectual property law, law and economics, trade marks and designs. Click here to see more ...

Professor Charles Rickett (Queensland)

Professor Rickett is Sir Gerard Brennan Professor of Law and Head of the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, a position he took up in August 2003. Before that, he was Professor of Commercial Law in The University of Auckland, where he held from 1994 a joint Chair in the Schools of Law and Business and Economics. He was also Director of the University's Research Centre for Business Law. He is a graduate of both the Oxford and Cambridge Law Schools, and has held teaching appointments at University College London, the University of Cambridge (where he was a Fellow of Emmanuel College), Victoria University of Wellington and Massey University (as Foundation Professor of Business Law). In 2001 he was appointed a Professorial Fellow of The University of Melbourne.

His teaching interests include Equity, Banking Law, Restitution, Theories of Obligations, and Legal Ethics, and he has published widely in those areas. His books include (with R Grantham) Enrichment and Restitution in New Zealand (2000), Restitution: Commentary and Materials (2001); Company and Securities Law: Commentary and Materials (2002); (ed with R Grantham) Corporate Personality in the 20th Century (1998), Essays on Insider Trading and Securities Regulation (1997); (ed with G Austin) International Intellectual Property and the Common Law World (2000); Click to see more ...

Professor Craig Rotherham (Nottingham)

Craig Rotherham arrived at Nottingham as a Reader in Law in 2002 after five years as a fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He previously taught at the University of Sussex and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. His research principally concerns restitution, proprietary remedies and ideas of property. In addition to a number of articles and published essays, he is the author of Proprietary Remedies in Context: A Study in the Judicial Redistribution of Property Rights (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2002). He has also contributed several chapters to Hedley (ed), The Law of Restitution (London: Butterworths, 2002). His research principally concerns restitution, proprietary remedies and ideas of property. Click here to see more ...

Chaim Saiman (Villanova)

Assistant Professor Saiman received his B.S., magna cum laude, from Georgia State University, and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. At Columbia, he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. Professor Saiman also done graduate Talmudic and Biblical studies at Yeshivat Har Etzion and undergraduate Talmudic and Biblical studies at Yeshivat Kerem B’Yavne in Israel.

Following law school, he worked as an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York. He then clerked for the Honorable Michael W. McConnell of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit before serving as a fellow at Harvard Law School and at New York University School of Law.

Professor Saiman’s publications include: "Interpreting Immunity: Qualified Immunity and the Common Law Tradition," 8 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming 2006); "Legal Theory: Conceptualism in Jewish Law," 21 Journal of Law and Religion (forthcoming 2006); "Tradition and Change" (reviewing John T. Noonan, A Church that Can and Cannot Change (2005), in Tradition (forthcoming 2006). Click here to see more ...

Dr Severine Saintier (Sheffield)

Dr Séverine Saintier joined the Law School in Sheffield in 2003 and was recently promoted senior lecturer. Séverine's main research interests are in commercial and contract law with a particular emphasis in commercial agency law, an area in which she has published extensively since the completion of her doctoral thesis in 2000. Following Séverine's education in France and in England, her research also has a strong comparative element. Séverine is involved in the Study Group on a European Civil Code as a member of the working team on Mandate contracts for which she has written the English national report. Click here to see more ...

Dr Magdalena Sengayen (Oxford Socio Legal Studies)

Dr Magdalena Sengayen is Research Officer in European Civil Liability Systems at the Centre of Socio-Legal Studies. She joined the Centre in February 2004 (in May 2004 on a full-time basis) from the University of Westminster in London where she completed her PhD in Product Liability Law of Central Europe. She is a Visiting Research Fellow in Product Liability Law at the Tort Law Centre of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and a member of the Product Liability Forum of the Institute. She is often invited to speak on various topics involving product liability law and litigation, civil procedure and costs of justice at the Institute and at other academic and professional conferences. Her major research interests include, apart from the law of product liability, harmonisation of European tort law and civil procedure, civil justice and civil litigation, comparative law and European Union law. Click here to see more ...

Dr Jillaine Seymour (Cambridge)

Dr Jillaine Seymour is a City Solicitors Educational Trust Lecturer and also a College Lecturer (Sidney Sussex). Click here to see more ...

Dr Duncan Sheehan (UEA)

Duncan Sheehan specialises in chancery law subjects. He joined the Law School in September 2001 after seven years of undergraduate and postgraduate study at Oxford, and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2006. His doctoral thesis, entitled "Mistakes of Law", focused on the historical development of the mistake of law bar, its eventual abolition in 1998, and the impact of that change on the future of the law of restitution. At UEA he teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. He is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars, and is currently Director of Research. Click here to see more ...

Professor Emily Sherwin (Cornell)

Professor Sherwin specializes in jurisprudence, property, and remedies. She is the author (with Larry Alexander) of two books: Demystifying Legal Reasoning (forthcoming from Cambridge University Press) and The Rule of Rules: Morality, Rules, and the Dilemmas of Law (Duke University Press 2001); and has published numerous book chapters, articles, and reviews in her subjects of specialty.

She was a member of the faculty at the University of Kentucky College of Law from 1985 to 1990 and the University of San Diego School of Law from 1990 to 2003, when she moved to Cornell. She has also held visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University School of Law (where she received her J.D.). She is a member of the advisory committee for the ALI's Restatement (Third) of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment, and a regular participant in roundtable conferences of the University of San Diego's Institute for Law and Philosophy. Click to see more ...

Professor Lionel Smith (McGill)

Lionel Smith was a law clerk to Mr. Justice John Sopinka at the Supreme Court of Canada and conducted his doctoral research at Oxford under the supervision of Professor Peter Birks. He taught law at the University of Alberta (1991-1992; 1994-1996) and Oxford University (1996-2000) before joining McGill University in 2000.

He is the author of The Law of Tracing (Oxford University Press, 1997), and a co-author of Waters’ Law of Trusts in Canada, 3rd ed. (Carswell, 2005). He is a co-author and the English reporter of Commercial Trusts in European Private Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005). He is a contributor to Canadian Corporate Law: Cases, Notes and Materials, 3rd ed. (Butterworths, 2006), Oosterhoff on Trusts: Text, Commentary and Materials, 6th ed. (Carswell, 2004), and The Law of Restitution in Canada: Cases, Notes and Materials (Emond Montgomery, 2004). He is also the author of numerous articles, book chapters, notes and reviews. Click to see more ...

Professor Stephen Smith (McGill)

William Dawson Scholar in the Faculty of Law, Professor Smith teaches and researches common law and civil law obligations and legal theory. A former law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson, Professor Smith taught for a number of years at St. Anne's College, Oxford University. He is the author of Contract Theory (2004) and Atiyah’s Introduction to the Law of Contract, 6th ed (2005).

His research areas include: Private law (especially contract law) and legal theory (especially private law theory). Click to see more ...

Professor Jenny Steele (Southampton)

Jenny's research interests lie principally in tort law, environmental law and legal theory. She is particularly interested in the relationship between law, legal theory, and risk, including questions of liability and insurance; in questions of causation in tort; and in the connections between the law of tort and human rights. Her publications include: Tort Law: Text, Cases and Materials (Oxford University Press, 2007); Risks and Legal Theory (Hart Publishing, 2004), winner of the Peter Birks (SLS) Prize 2004); and (as editor) Jewell and Steele (eds), Law in Environmental Decision-Making (Oxord, Clarendon Press, 1998). Her articles include '"Breach of Duty Causing Harm?" Recent Encounters Between Negligence and Risk' (2007) 60 Current Legal Problems 296-337; 'Participation and Deliberation in Environmental Law: Exploring a Problem-Solving Approach' (2001) 21 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 415-442; 'Remedies and Remediation: Foundational Issues in Environmental Liability' (1995) 58 Modern Law Review 615-636; 'Scepticism and the Law of Negligence' (1993) 52 Cambridge Law Journal 437-469. She is one of the editors of Legal Studies. Click here to see more ...

Professor Robert Stevens (UCL)

Professor Robert Stevens joined UCL in July 2007. Previously he had been a lecturer in law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Lady Margaret Hall where he had taught from 1994. He read law as an undergraduate at the University of Oxford, where he also studied for the Bachelor of Civil Law. He was called to the Bar in 1992. He has taught and lectured widely both within the Commonwealth (Australia and Canada) and Continental Europe (Germany, the Netherlands, Spain). He has lectured for the Judicial Studies Board, and holds a consultancy with Clifford Chance.

Professor Stevens’ research interests cover a wide range of topics within commercial law, and private law more generally. He has published within the following areas: Contract, Insolvency, Private International Law, Restitution, Torts, Trusts. His publications include: Torts and rights (Oxford University Press, 2007); Cross Border Security and Insolvency (Oxford University Press, 2001). Co-editor (with Professor Michael Bridge). Click here to see more ...

David Tan (Melbourne)

David Tan holds a Master of Laws from Harvard, and graduated with first class honours in law from the University of Melbourne as well as with a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in economics. In addition, he is an accomplished fine art fashion photographer who had staged several solo exhibitions over the last ten years, and had published coffeetable books in association with luxury brands Cartier and Versace. David was named Singapore’s Outstanding Young Person of the Year in 1999.

David was formerly the Director of Sports with the Singapore Government, from 2004-2005, responsible for developing policies to facilitate the sustainable development of competitive and recreational sports in Singapore. From 2002-2004, he was the Director of Contact Singapore, overseeing an international network of offices in North America, Europe, China, India, Southeast Asia and Australia.

In the area of law, David has been on the editorial boards of the Harvard International Law Journal, Harvard Human Rights Journal and Melbourne University Law Review. Some of his more notable publications are in the areas of the right of publicity, outer space environmental law, moral rights in musical compositions, fiduciary duties governing the doctor-patient relationship, and the impact of statutory business judgment rule on company directors.

David is currently enrolled in the PhD program at Melbourne Law School, and is a resident law tutor at Trinity College.

Selected publications: ‘Beyond Trademark Law: What the right of Publicity Can Learn from Cultural Studies’(2008) Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (forthcoming); ‘Towards a New Regime for the Protection of Outer Space as the Province of All Mankind’ (2000) 25 Yale Journal of International Law 145; ‘Sexual Misconduct by Doctors and the Intervention of Equity’ (1997) 4 Journal of Law and Medicine 243.

Professor Tan Yock Lin (NUS)

Tan Yock Lin is a professor of law with varied research interests in the conflict of laws, the law of evidence and equity and trusts. He has written books and articles on these subjects as well as a book on the legal profession, now in the second edition, and a loose-leaf work on Criminal Procedure. He is presently researching on commercial conflict of laws and takes a lively interest in law reform. Click to see more ...

Dr. Dania Thomas (Keele)

Dania specialises in the English common law of contract and contemporary politics of identity. She is especially interested in exploring private law doctrine through the prism of identity politics to reveal the dynamics of legitimate exploitation. Her case studies include the Banaban encounter with colonial phosphate mining interests in the Western Pacific at the turn of the last century and the Argentine debt crisis of 2001 as an aspect of contemporary market capitalism. Dania is also interested in the notion of the corporate person and its regulation in modern theories of the company. Click here to see more ...

Professor François du Toit (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

François du Toit is associate professor of private law at the University of the Western Cape where he specializes in succession and trust law. His particular research interests are socio-economic influences on freedom of testation as well as the limitation of freedom of testation under influence of constitutional imperatives. He also has a keen interest in trust law and is the author of South African Trust Law: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed (LexisNexis 2007). François has presented numerous papers on succession and trust law at international conferences, including papers on the constitutionalization of South African succession and trust law at the International Trusts Congress (London 2004) and the Commonwealth Legal Education Association Conference (Nairobi 2007). Click here to see more ...

Catherine Valcke (Toronto)

Catherine Valcke (LL.B. Civil Law, University of Sherbrooke; LL.B. Common Law, University of Toronto; LL.M. University of Chicago; S.J.D. Columbia) is Associate Professor at University of Toronto Faculty of Law. She has taught comparative law in Toronto, Montreal, and Tunisia, and published nationally and internationally in the fields of private comparative law, particularly contract law, legal education, and legal theory, in journals such as Nomos, the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, the Yale Journal of International Law, the European Review of Private Law, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. Her latest project seeks to bridge comparative law and legal theory. Click here to see more ...

Professor Prue Vines (UNSW)

Prue Vines is a Professor in the School of Law at the University of New South Wales where she works in the areas of tort law and succession. Her interests in tort law turn on the role and function of tort law and its argumentative forms, and she is particularly interested in apologies in private law for this reason. She has also written extensively on the role and ideology of the duty of care in negligence and its normative significance. In succession law recent work has focused on the problems created for Indigenous people and immigrants by the impact of the common law on inheritance and disposal of the body after death.

Her books include Succession: families property and death, 2nd ed (LexisNexis 2003) ( with R Atherton); Torts: commentary and materials, (Thomson 2006) (with Sappideen, Grant and Watson) and Law and Justice in Australia (OUP 2005). Click to see more ...

Professor Graham Virgo (Cambridge)

Professor in English Law; Access Officer at the University of Cambridge. His research interests include: Criminal Law. Restitution.

Publications include: The Principles of the Law of Restitution (2nd Ed.) (OUP), Maudsley and Burn's Trusts and Trustees : Cases and Materials (Butterworths), The Principles of the Law of Restitution (OUP), Restitution: Past, Present and Future : Essays in Honour of Gareth Jones (Haart) - Joint Editor. Click to see more ...

Charlie Webb (LSE)

Charlie Webb studied at Oxford and UCL before joining LSE to undertake his PhD on "Property, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment" which he is currently completing. He has previously taught at Oxford and at SOAS. His research interests include: Contract law, restitution, trusts and private law theory. Click here to see more ...

Dr. Mark Wilde (Reading)

Dr. Wilde's reseach interests include: Tort; EU Law; Environmental Law. Click here to see more ...

Normann Witzleb (Monash)

Dr. Normann Witzleb is a dually qualified German and Australian lawyer. Prior to joining Monash University in 2008, he worked at the University of Western Australia (2001-2007) and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)(1996-2000), where he also obtained his PhD.

His research focus is on comparative and European private law, in particular the area of privacy rights and remedies. Among his publications in this field are a monograph on remedies for the infringements of personality rights in the UK and Germany and "Auf dem Wege zu einem Europäischen Zivilgesetzbuch" (Towards a European Civil Code, co-edited). Click here to see more ...

Dr. Simone Wong (Kent)

BA, LLM, PhD (Kent), Barrister-at-Law (Lincoln’s Inn), Lecturer in Law; first joined Kent Law School in 1995 as a Teaching Assistant; appointed to a lectureship in 1998; prior to that, worked as an Advocate and Solicitor in Malaysia (1985-1989) and Singapore (1990-1994); Book Review Editor of Feminist Legal Studies.

Her research interests are primarily in Equity, Trusts, Cohabitation and other Domestic Relationships, and Banking. Her recent papers include:"Would you care to share your home?" 2007, Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 58, Sls Legal Publications; "Cohabitation and the Law Commision's Project" 2006-08, Feminist Legal Studies, 14 (2), Springer Verlag, pp. 145-166; "The Human Rights Act 1998 and the Shared Home: Issues for Cohabitants" 2005, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law, 27 (4), pp. 265-279. Click here to see more ...

Professor Sarah Worthington (LSE)

Sarah Worthington is a Deputy Director for Research and External Relations and Professor of Law at the London School of Economics, and a practising barrister at 3/4 South Square, Gray’s Inn. She has undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in science and law from universities in Australia, and a doctorate from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining the LSE, she taught at Birkbeck College, London, and the University of Melbourne, Australia. She has held visiting appointments in Hong Kong, Australia and South Africa. She is currently a member of the LSE’s Court of Governors and Council, President-elect of the Society of Legal Scholars (for 07/08), a Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne, and Visiting Professor at the University of Leuven.

She writes on commercial equity, personal property and securities law, secured financing and corporate governance. Her recent books include Equity (2003, Clarendon Law Series; 2nd edition forthcoming 2006), and Commercial Law and Commercial Practice (2003, an edited collection published by Hart Publishing). Click to see more ...

Professor Jane Wright (Essex)

Professor Jane Wright practiced as a solicitor before her appointment as Lecturer in Law at the University of Essex in 1991. She teaches on the Common Law II - Tort, Criminal Law and Medicine and the Law undergraduate courses, and the Comparative Public Law and Human rights option for the LLM in Public Law and the LLM in International Human .

Her research interests include: Common Law; Comparative Law; International Human Rights; Civil Liberties; and Minority Rights. Click here to see more ...

Yap Po Jen (HKU)

Yap Po Jen [LLB (NUS), LLM (Harvard), LLM (London)] is an Assistant Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he specialises in tort law, comparative constitutional law and trade marks law.

His recent publications include: "Honestly, Neither Celine Nor Gillette is Defensible!", (2008) 30 European Intellectual Property Review (forthcoming); "Enlisting Close Connections: A Matter of Course for Vicarious Liability?", (2008) 28 Legal Studies 197; "Intepreting the Basic Law and the Adjudication of Politically Sensitive Questions", (2007) 6 Chinese Journal of International Law 54; "Making Sense of Trade Mark Use", (2007) 29 European Intellectual Property Review 420; "10 Years of the Basic Law: The Rise, Retreat and Resurgence of Judicial Power in Hong Kong", (2007) 36 Common Law World Review 166.