Private Law and Power

Kit Barker is Professor of Private Law, Karen Fairweather is an Associate Lecturer and Ross Grantham is Professor of Commercial Law, all at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland. Simone Degeling is Professor of Law at UNSW Australia.

Part 1: Issues
1. The Dynamics of Private Law and Power
Kit Barker

Part 2: Power, History and Society
2. Power, History and the Law of Contract in Eighteenth Century England
Warren Swain
3. Redressing Inequality in Personal Credit Transactions: 1700–1974
Karen Fairweather
4. Tort Law and Government Liability in the Administrative State
Peter Cane

Part 3: Doctrines, Institutions and Process
5. Property and Power: The Judicial Redistribution of Proprietary Rights
Craig Rotherham
6. Trustees’ Powers and Social Justice
Matthew Harding
7. Undue Infl uence and the Spiritual Economy
Simone Degeling
8. A Public Law Tort: Understanding Misfeasance in Public Office
Donal Nolan
9. Public Power, Discretion and the Duty of Care
Kit Barker
10. The Legitimacy of the Company as a Source of (Private) Power
Ross Grantham
11. Reshaping Responsibility: The Emerging Private Law of Institutional Wrongs
Mayo Moran
12. Class Actions: Uses and Abuses of the Process of Courts
Justice Philip McMurdo