Wayne  
COURTNEY

 
Professor

Wayne Courtney joined NUS Law in 2015. He had previously been an Associate Professor and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney.

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Contact

(65) 6516-3569
ETS-02-11

Education

PhD, LLB (Hons), BSc, GradCertEd Studies (University of Sydney); BComp (Hons) (University of Tasmania); GDLP (Australian National University)

Curriculum Vitae

Current Courses

Law of Contract

Law of Contract (JD)

Singapore Common Law of Contract

Wayne Courtney joined NUS Law in 2015. He had previously been an Associate Professor and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney.

Wayne specialises in contract law and has broader interests in commercial law and private law. He is the author of two books, Contractual Indemnities and The Modern Contract of Guarantee (now in its fourth edition), and co-editor of Punishment and Private Law. His work has been cited by the apex courts of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom, by the Hong Kong Court of Appeal, and by various other courts. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contract Law, section co-editor (SE Asia) for the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice, and a past member of the editorial board of the Sydney Law Review.

Wayne is a Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School, where he teaches regularly. He has been a visiting scholar at Osgoode Hall, York University, the Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and the Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong.

Books
Wayne Courtney, The Modern Contract of Guarantee (4th edn, Sweet & Maxwell 2020)

Edited Books
Elise Bant, Wayne Courtney, James Goudkamp and Jeannie Paterson (eds), Punishment and Private Law (Hart Publishing 2021)

Book Chapters
Wayne Courtney, 'Indemnity and Guarantee' in KV Krishnaprasad, Niranjan Venkatesan, Shivprasad Swaminathan and Umakanth Varottil (eds), Foundations of Indian Contract Law (Oxford University Press 2024) 439

Wayne Courtney, 'Contracts in the time of COVID-19' in Normann Witzleb (ed), Contract Law in Changing Times (Routledge 2022) 56

J. W. Carter, Wayne Courtney and Gregory Tolhurst, 'Mental Distress Damages and Restitution' in Barbara McDonald, Ben Chen and Jeffrey Gordon (eds), Dynamic and Principled: The Influence of Sir Anthony Mason (The Federation Press 2022) 249

Wayne Courtney and James Goudkamp, 'Punishment and Private Law' in Elise Bant, Wayne Courtney, James Goudkamp and Jeannie Paterson (eds), Punishment and Private Law (Hart Publishing 2021) 3

Wayne Courtney, 'Agreed Punishment' in Elise Bant, Wayne Courtney, James Goudkamp and Jeannie Paterson (eds), Punishment and Private Law (Hart Publishing 2021) 321

Journal Articles
Wayne Courtney, J. W. Carter and Gregory Tolhurst, 'When is a Contract an Entire Contract?' (2024) 2 (1) Contract and Commercial Law Review 1

J. W. Carter, Wayne Courtney and Gregory Tolhurst, 'Bowmakers Revisited - Independent Causes of Action for Restitution' (2023) 1 (1) Contract and Commercial Law Review 3

Wayne Courtney, 'Indemnities in Insurance' (2021) 37 (3) Journal of Contract Law 167

Wayne Courtney, 'Offers to Mitigate' (2020) 136 The Law Quarterly Review 245

J. W. Carter and Wayne Courtney, '"Ready and Willing to Perform": Discharge for Breach and Damages' [2020] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 251

J.W. Carter, Wayne Courtney and G.J. Tolhurst, 'The Detrimental Impact of “Repudiatory Breach” on Discharge for Breach of Contract' [2020] Journal of Business Law 287

  • Contracts
  • Commercial Law
  • Obligations (Private Law)
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