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Contract

  • Katy Barnett (Melbourne), 'Attorney-General v Blake: Far from Revolutionary in Practice'
  • The Hon. Justice James Edelman (Federal Court of Australia), 'Hadley v Baxendale'
  • Victor Goldberg (Columbia), 'Reckoning Contract Damages: Valuation of the Contract as an Asset'
  • Joanna McCunn (Cambridge), 'Revolutions in Contractual Interpretation: A Historical Perspective'
  • David McLauchlan (Victoria Univ of Wellington), 'The ICS Principles: A Failed Revolution in Contract Interpretation?'
  • Jonathan Morgan (Cambridge), 'Down with Frustration'
  • Franziska Myburgh (Stellenbosch), 'Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Paradigm Shifts and Crises: Analysing Recent Changes in the Approach to Contractual Interpretation in South African Law'

Torts

  • Peter Cane (ANU), 'Tort Law and Government Liability in the Administrative State: Revolution and Evolution'
  • Erika Chamberlain (Western Ontario), 'Home Office v Dorset Yacht: A Revolution in duty Methodology'
  • Paul S Davies (Oxford), 'Concurrent Liability: A Spluttering Revolution'
  • Mark Gergen (Berkley), 'Privacy, Privity, and Private Ordering'
  • John CP Goldberg (Harvard) & Benjamin C Zipursky (Fordham), 'MacPherson at 100'
  • Paula Giliker (Bristol), 'A Revolution in Vicarious Liability: Lister, the Catholic Child Welfare Society Case and Beyond'
  • James Goudkamp (Oxford) and Donal Nolan (Oxford), 'Private Law Scholarship and Empirical Methods: Contributory Negligence in the 21st Century'
  • Steve Hedley (Cork), 'The Unacknowledged Revolution? From Individual to Collective Liability in Negligence'
  • Gregory C Keating (USC Gould), 'Products Liability As Enterprise Liability'
  • Pey-Woan Lee (SMU), 'Understanding Civil Conspiracy'
  • Rachel Leow (Cambridge), 'A Misguided Revolution in Vicarious Liability?'
  • Claire McIvor (Birmingham), 'Revolutionary Thinking and the Erosion of Legal Principle: The Tort Law Examples of Vicarious Liability and Accessory Liability'
  • Jason Neyers (Western Ontario), 'The Coming Revolution in the Tort of Public Nuisance?'
  • Janet O'Sullivan (Cambridge), 'Foresight, Fault and Intuition in Negligence: Why Reasonable Foreseeability has had its Day'
  • James Plunkett (Oxford), 'Duty Methodologies in Australia, Canada and the UK'
  • Kenneth W Simons (California Irvine), 'The Hegemony of the Reasonable Person in Anglo-American Tort Law'
  • Hanna Wilberg (Auckland), 'Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Negligence Liability for Public Authority Exercises of Statutory Discretion: A Partial Evaluation'
  • Richard Wright and Karen Vaysman (Chicago Kent), 'The Quiet Revolution: Res Ipsa Loquitur and the Standards of Persuasion' (with Karen Vaysman)

Restitution and unjust enrichment

  • Nick McBride (Cambridge), 'Restitution and Unjust Enrichment: The Coming Counter-Revolution'
  • Niamh Connolly (TCD), 'Revolution or Evolution in the Common Law? Restitution and Invalid Contracts'
  • Tatiana Cutts (Birmingham), 'Modern Money Had and Received'
  • Elise Bant, The Rt Hon. Sir Terence Etherton, Amy Goymour, Mitchell McInnes, Helen Scott, Panel Discussion on Goff and Jones' The Law of Restitution

Equity and Trusts

  • Michael Bryan (Melbourne), 'Maitland and the Unfinished Revolution in Equity'
  • James Fisher (Tokyo), 'Making Trusts Civilised: War, Revolution and the English Trust in Japan'
  • Andrew Gold (De Paul), 'Fiduciary Law After the Law & Economics Revolution'
  • Neil Jones (Cambridge), 'No Magic in Words? From Uses to Trusts: Causes and Effects'
  • Rosemary Langford (Melbourne), 'The Proscriptive Fiduciary Revolution -- Insights from Directors' Duties'
  • John Mee (Cork), 'Revolution or Civil War?: The Resulting Trust versus the Common Intention Constructive Trust'
  • Jessica Palmer (Otago) & Charles Rickett (Auckland UT), 'A Revolution in Trust Law – The Legacy of the Discretionary Trust'
  • Pauline Ridge (ANU), 'Modern Equity: Revolution or Renewal from Within?'
  • Andrew Robertson (Melbourne), ‘Equitable Estoppel Revolutions’
  • Robert Stevens (Oxford), 'The Equitable Estoppel Disaster'
  • Andreas Televantos (Cambridge), 'There and Back Again: Losing the Fiduciary Requirement for Equitable Tracing'
  • Peter Turner (Cambridge), 'Recovering the Equitable Doctrine of Relief against Forfeiture'
  • Man Yip (SMU) and James Lee (KCL), 'Constructing 'Context' in Equity: Revolution or Restoration?

Remedies

  • Elise Bant (Melbourne) and Jeannie Paterson (Melbourne), 'Remedies under Consumer Protection Statutes: Revolution and Evolution?'
  • Katy Barnett (Melbourne), 'Attorney-General v Blake: Far from Revolutionary in Practice'
  • Victor Goldberg (Columbia), 'Reckoning Contract Damages: Valuation of the Contract as an Asset'
  • Craig Rotherham (Nottingham), 'The Classification of Release-Fee Damages and the Structure of Revolutions in Legal Taxonomy'
  • Stephen A Smith (McGill), 'From Remedies to Rights'

Revolutions across private law

  • TT Arvind (Newcastle UK), 'Paradigms Lost or Paradigms Regained? Legal Revolutions and the Path of the Law'
  • Roderick Bagshaw (Oxford), 'The Constitutionalization of Private Law: Why Resist?'
  • Shawn Bayern (Florida State), 'An American Revolution in Private Law: The Law and Economics Movement and its Failures'
  • Allan Beever (Auckland UT), 'Administrativism and the Conceptualisation of Private Law'
  • Francois du Bois (Leicester), 'A Public Revolution in Private Law?'
  • The Rt Hon the Lord Carnwath, 'People and Principle in the Developing Law'
  • Hugh Collins (Oxford), 'The Revolutionary Trajectory of EU Contract Law Towards Post-National Law'
  • Larry DiMatteo (Florida), 'Unframing Legal Reasoning: Recurrent and Epochal Change'
  • Andrew Dyson (LSE), 'Reviving a Revolution: New Support for Hart & Honore's Theory of Causation'
  • Matt Dyson (Cambridge), 'Foreman Good, to Judge Better: The Post-Revolutionary Effects of Losing the Civil Jury'
  • Sarah Green (Oxford), 'The Meaning of Money'
  • David Ibbetson (Cambridge), 'Revolutions in Private Law?'
  • The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, 'Legal Obligations and Legal Revolutions’
  • Ben McFarlane (UCL), 'Evaluating the Value Revolution'
  • Hector MacQueen (Edinburgh, Scottish Law Commission), 'Private Law's Revolutionaries: Authors, Codifiers and Merchants'
  • Geoffrey Samuel (Kent), 'Have There Been Scientific Revolutions in Law?'
  • Stephen A Smith (McGill), 'From Remedies to Rights'
  • Jenny Steele (York), 'Risk Revolutions in Private Law'
  • Sandy Steel (Oxford), 'The Continuity Thesis: Revolutions and Revisions'
  • Stelios Tofaris (Cambridge), 'Codifying Private Law: A Common Law Revolution?'
  • Jason Varuhas (Melbourne), 'The Socialisation of Private Law'
  • Prue Vines (UNSW), Taking Common Law Concepts Seriously: Changing the Paradigm in Private Law Thinking in Response to the Statutory 'Revolution' in Private Law
  • Graham Virgo (Cambridge), 'The Illegality Revolution'
  • Stephen Waddams (Toronto), 'Revolutions in the Classification of Obligations'
  • Charlie Webb (LSE), 'Fact and Value in Common Law Adjudication'
  • Hanna Wilberg (Auckland), 'The Next Revolution at the Faultline between Private and Public Law? Dealing with Public Authority Discretion'
  • Frederick Wilmot-Smith (Oxford), 'The Death of Private Law'
  • Sarah Worthington (Cambridge), 'Revolutionary Breakthroughs in Personal Property Law'