Christian 
WITTING

 
Professor

Academic Fellow

Vice-Dean (Academic Affairs and Undergraduate Studies)

Christian A. Witting is Professor of Law. His previous roles include Professor of Private Law at Queen Mary University of London, Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, and Solicitor in the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department (Australia). His areas of expertise are tort law, corporate groups, and corporate liability. Professor Witting is author of Liability of Corporate Groups and Networks (CUP, 2018), Street on Torts (OUP, several editions) and Liability for Negligent Misstatements (OUP, 2004). With Petrin, he edited the Research Handbook on Corporate Liability (Edward Elgar, 2023) and has published in leading journals in the UK and Australia. Professor Witting’s work has been cited by the UK Supreme Court, the Privy Council, Supreme Court of Canada, Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, the High Court of Australia and the Singapore Court of Appeal among others.

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Education

SJD (University of Melbourne); LLB (Hons), BEc (Monash University); Barrister & Solicitor (Australia)

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Christian A. Witting is Professor of Law. His previous roles include Professor of Private Law at Queen Mary University of London, Associate Professor at the University of Melbourne, and Solicitor in the Commonwealth Attorney-General’s Department (Australia). His areas of expertise are tort law, corporate groups, and corporate liability. Professor Witting is author of Liability of Corporate Groups and Networks (CUP, 2018), Street on Torts (OUP, several editions) and Liability for Negligent Misstatements (OUP, 2004). With Petrin, he edited the Research Handbook on Corporate Liability (Edward Elgar, 2023) and has published in leading journals in the UK and Australia. Professor Witting’s work has been cited by the UK Supreme Court, the Privy Council, Supreme Court of Canada, Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, the High Court of Australia and the Singapore Court of Appeal among others.

Edited Books
Martin Petrin and Christian Witting (eds), Research Handbook on Corporate Liability (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023)

Book Chapters
Christian Witting, 'Corporate Liability: A Systems Perspective' in Martin Petrin and Christian Witting (eds), Research Handbook on Corporate Liability (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023) 42

Martin Petrin and Christian Witting, 'Introduction to the Research Handbook on Corporate Liability' in Martin Petrin and Christian Witting (eds), Research Handbook on Corporate Liability (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023) 1

Christian Witting, 'Tort Law as Regulation in the Financial Industry' in Sandra Booysen (ed), Financial Advice and Investor Protection: Comparative Law and Practice (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021) 39

Christian Witting, 'Rethinking Tort Law in the Corporate Group Situation' in Zvonimir Slakoper and Ivan Tot (eds), Digital Technologies and the Law of Obligations (Routledge 2021) 54

Christian Witting, 'Piercing the Corporate Veil' in Sarah Worthington, William Day (ed), Challenging Private Law: Lord Sumption on the Supreme Court (Hart Publishing 2020)

Journal Articles
Christian Witting, 'The Place of Managers in the Corporate Governance Architecture' [2024] Journal of Corporate Law Studies

Christian Witting, 'Companies, Groups and Supply Chains: Structures and Responsibility in Tort and Beyond' (2023) 29 (2) Tort Law Review 224

Christian Witting, 'The Corporate Group: System, Design and Responsibility' (2021) 80 (3) The Cambridge Law Journal 581

  • Corporate Groups
  • Corporate Networks
  • Legal Philosophy
  • Tort Law