Exploring Private Law

Elise Bant is an Associate Professor in the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Western Australia. Matthew Harding is a Senior Lecturer in the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne.

Introduction Elise Bant and Matthew Harding; Part I. Method: 1. Do top-down and bottom-up reasoning ever meet? Keith Mason; 2. Internationalisation or isolation: the Australian cul de sac? The case of contract law Paul Finn; 3. The Australian Law of Restitution: has the High Court lost its way? Andrew Burrows; 4. Privacy and private law: developing the common law of Australia Michael Tilbury; 5. Towards legal pragmatism: breach of confidence and the right to privacy Megan Richardson; 6. Teaching trust law in the twenty-first century Tang Hang Wu; Part II. Unjust Enrichment: 7. The impact of legal culture on the law of unjustified enrichment: the role of reasons Helen Scott and Daniel Visser; 8. Natural obligations and unjust enrichment Mitchell McInnes; 9. Causality and abstraction in the common law Birke Häcker; 10. Trust and theft Robert Chambers; Part III. Equity and Trusts: 11. What is left of equity's relief against forfeiture? Sarah Worthington; 12. Contracts, fiduciaries and the primacy of the deal Anthony Duggan; 13. Four fiduciary puzzles James Edelman; 14. Good faith: what does it mean for fiduciaries and what does it tell us about them? Richard Nolan and Matthew Conaglen; 15. Trustees' duties to provide information Lusina Ho; Part IV. Remedies: 16. The measurement of compensation claims against trustees and fiduciaries Lionel Smith; 17. Substitutability and disgorgement damages in contract Katy Barnett; 18. Unconscionability and proprietary estoppel remedies Andrew Robertson; 19. Partial rescission: disentangling the seedlings but not transplanting them Peter Watts; 20. Of horses and carts: theories of indefeasibility and category errors in the Torrens system Kelvin Low.