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Keynote Speakers
- The Right Hon the Lord Carnwath of Notting Hill SCJ, 'People and Principle in the Developing Law'
- The Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, 'Legal Obligations and Legal Revolutions’
- Hugh Collins FBA, 'The Revolutionary Trajectory of EU Contract Law Towards Post-National Law'
- David Ibbetson FBA, 'Revolutions in Private Law?'
- Hector MacQueen, FBA, FRSE, 'Private Law's Revolutionaries: Authors, Codifiers and Merchants'
- Jenny Steele, 'Risk Revolutions in Private Law'
Speakers
- 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?'
- Elise Bant (Melbourne), 'Remedies under Consumer Protection Statutes: Revolution and Evolution?' (with Jeannie Paterson) and Panel Discussion on Goff and Jones' The Law of Restitution
- Katy Barnett (Melbourne), 'Attorney-General v Blake: Far from Revolutionary in Practice'
- 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?'
- Michael Bryan (Melbourne), 'Maitland and the Unfinished Revolution in Equity'
- 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'
- Niamh Connolly (TCD), 'Revolution or Evolution in the Common Law? Restitution and Invalid Contracts'
- Tatiana Cutts (Birmingham), 'Modern Money Had and Received'
- Paul S Davies (Oxford), 'Concurrent Liability: A Spluttering Revolution'
- Larry DiMatteo (Florida), 'Unframing Legal Reasoning: Recurrent and Epochal Change'
- Andrew Dyson (LSE), 'Reviving a Revolution: New Support for Hart & Honoré's Theory of Causation'
- Matt Dyson (Cambridge), 'Foreman Good, to Judge Better: The Post-Revolutionary Effects of Losing the Civil Jury'
- The Hon. Justice James Edelman (Federal Court of Australia) 'Hadley v Baxendale'
- The Rt. Hon Sir Terence Etherton (Chancellor of the High Court) Panel Discussion on Goff and Jones' The Law of Restitution
- James Fisher (Tokyo), 'Making Trusts Civilised: War, Revolution and the English Trust in Japan'
- Mark Gergen (Berkley), 'Privacy, Privity, and Private Ordering'
- Paula Giliker (Bristol), 'A Revolution in Vicarious Liability: Lister, the Catholic Child Welfare Society Case and Beyond'
- Andrew Gold (De Paul), 'Fiduciary Law After the Law & Economics Revolution'
- John CP Goldberg (Harvard), 'MacPherson at 100' (with Ben Zipursky)
- Victor Goldberg (Columbia), 'Reckoning Contract Damages: Valuation of the Contract as an Asset'
- James Goudkamp (Oxford), 'Private Law Scholarship and Empirical Methods: Contributory Negligence in the 21st Century' (with Donal Nolan)
- Amy Goymour (Cambridge), Panel Discussion on Goff and Jones' The Law of Restitution
- Sarah Green (Oxford), 'The Meaning of Money'
- Steve Hedley (Cork), 'The Unacknowledged Revolution? From Individual to Collective Liability in Negligence'
- Neil Jones (Cambridge), 'No Magic in Words? Aspects of the Transition from Uses to Trusts'
- Gregory C Keating (USC Gould), 'Products Liability As Enterprise Liability'
- Rosemary Langford (Melbourne), 'The Proscriptive Fiduciary Revolution -- Insights from Directors' Duties'
- James Lee (KCL), 'Constructing 'Context' in Equity: Revolution or Restoration? (with Man Yip)
- Pey-Woan Lee (SMU), 'Understanding Civil Conspiracy'
- Rachel Leow (Cambridge), 'A Misguided Revolution in Vicarious Liability?'
- Nick McBride (Cambridge), 'Restitution and Unjust Enrichment: The Coming Counter-Revolution'
- Joanna McCunn (Cambridge), 'Revolutions in Contractual Interpretation: A Historical Perspective'
- Ben McFarlane (UCL), 'Evaluating the Value Revolution'
- Mitchell McInnes (Alberta), Panel Discussion on Goff and Jones' The Law of Restitution
- Claire McIvor (Birmingham), 'Revolutionary Thinking and the Erosion of Legal Principle: The Tort Law Examples of Vicarious Liability and Accessory Liability'
- David McLauchlan (Victoria Univ of Wellington), 'The ICS Principles: A Failed Revolution in Contract Interpretation?'
- John Mee (Cork), 'Revolution or Civil War?: The Resulting Trust versus the Common Intention Constructive Trust'
- 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'
- Jason Neyers (Western Ontario), 'The Coming Revolution in the Tort of Public Nuisance?'
- Donal Nolan (Oxford), 'Private Law Scholarship and Empirical Methods: Contributory Negligence in the 21st Century' (with James Goudkamp)
- Janet O'Sullivan (Cambridge), 'Foresight, Fault and Intuition in Negligence: Why Reasonable Foreseeability has had its Day'
- Jessica Palmer (Otago), 'A Revolution in Trust Law – The Legacy of the Discretionary Trust' (with Charles Rickett)
- Jeannie Paterson (Melbourne), 'Remedies under Consumer Protection Statutes: Revolution and Evolution?' (with Elise Bant)
- James Plunkett (Oxford), 'Duty Methodologies in Australia, Canada and the UK'
- Charles Rickett (Auckland UT), 'A Revolution in Trust Law – The Legacy of the Discretionary Trust' (with Jessica Palmer)
- Pauline Ridge (ANU), 'Modern Equity: Revolution or Renewal from Within?'
- Andrew Robertson (Melbourne), 'Equitable Estoppel Revolutions'
- Craig Rotherham (Nottingham), 'The Classification of Release-Fee Damages and the Structure of Revolutions in Legal Taxonomy'
- Geoffrey Samuel (Kent), 'Have There Been Scientific Revolutions in Law?'
- Helen Scott (Cape Town), Panel Discussion on Goff and Jones' The Law of Restitution
- Kenneth W Simons (California Irvine), 'The Hegemony of the Reasonable Person in Anglo-American Tort Law'
- Stephen A Smith (McGill), 'From Remedies to Rights'
- Sandy Steel (Oxford), 'The Continuity Thesis: Revolutions and Revisions'
- Robert Stevens (Oxford), 'The Equitable Estoppel Disaster'
- Andreas Televantos (Cambridge), 'There and Back Again: Losing the Fiduciary Requirement for Equitable Tracing'
- Stelios Tofaris (Cambridge), 'Codifying Private Law: A Common Law Revolution?'
- Peter Turner (Cambridge), 'Recovering the Equitable Doctrine of Relief against Forfeiture'
- 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), 'Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Negligence Liability for Public Authority Exercises of Statutory Discretion: A Partial Evaluation'
- Frederick Wilmot-Smith (Oxford), 'The Death of Private Law'
- Sarah Worthington (Cambridge), 'Revolutionary Breakthroughs in Personal Property Law'
- Richard Wright and Karen Vaysman (Chicago Kent), 'The Quiet Revolution: Res Ipsa Loquitur and the Standards of Persuasion' (with Karen Vaysman)
- Man Yip (SMU), 'Constructing 'Context' in Equity: Revolution or Restoration?' (with James Lee)
- Benjamin C Zipursky (Fordham), 'MacPherson at 100' (with John Goldberg)