Book Publication: Punishment and Private Law (Professor Wayne Courtney)

Does private law punish? This collection, edited by Wayne Courtney together with Elise Bant, James Goudkamp, and Jeannie Marie Paterson, answers this complex but compelling question. Lawyers from across the spectrum of the law (contract, tort, restitution) explore exactly how it punishes wrong doing. These leading voices ask whether that punishment is effective and what its societal role might be. Taking the discussion out of the technical and into broader realms of a wider purpose, it is both compelling and thought-provoking.

Further details about the book, which includes chapters by Wayne as well as James Penner, may be found here.

About Professor Wayne Courtney

Wayne Courtney is currently Professor and Vice Dean in the Faculty of Law at the National University of Singapore. He specialises in contract law and has broader interests in commercial law and private law. He is the author of Contractual Indemnities and The Modern Contract of Guarantee (now in its fourth edition) and numerous articles. His work has been cited by the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of Canada, the New Zealand Supreme Court, the United Kingdom Supreme Court, the Singapore Court of Appeal, the Hong Kong Court of Appeal and various other courts. He has been a Herbert Smith Freehills Visitor at the University of Cambridge and a Cheng Yu Tung Visiting Professor at HKU.

Before entering academia, Wayne practised as a commercial lawyer in a leading Australian law firm.