Speakers

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Plenary Speakers

The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, PC (Chief Justice of Canada) "Developing the Private Law in the Context of the 'Vanishing Trial'"

The Honourable Mr. Justice Thomas Cromwell (Supreme Court of Canada)

Melvin Eisenberg (Berkeley) "The Foundations of Contract Law

John Goldberg (Harvard) "Economic Loss, Emotional Harm, and Enhanced Intentionality in the Development of Tort Law"

Andrew Robertson (Melbourne) "On the Function of the Law of Negligence"

Ernest Weinrib (Toronto) "The Relevance of the Distinction between Primary and Secondary Duties"

Richard Wright (Chicago-Kent) "Misunderstanding Justice and Rights"

Ben Zipursky (Fordham) "Economic Loss, Emotional Harm, and Enhanced Intentionality in the Development of Tort Law"

Parallel Session Speakers

T. Leigh Anenson (Maryland) "Inequitable Conduct in Retrospective: Understanding Unclean Hands in Patent Remedies"

Roderick Bagshaw (Oxford) "Sources as Forces: Indirect Effects of Changing Torts"

Elise Bant (Melbourne) "Revisiting Seddon's Case"

Kit Barker (Queensland) "Private and Public: The Mixed Concept of Vindication"

Katy Barnett (Melbourne) "'Reasonable Fee' Damages as Partial Disgorgement Damages for Breach of Contract"

Shawn Bayern (Florida State) "Offer and Acceptance in Modern Contract Law: A Needless Concept"

Allan Beever (South Australia) "The Orthodox Model of Legal Reasoning: Authoritarian and Obsolete"

Peter Benson (Toronto) "Between Property and Contract: Ownership as a Central Organizing Idea"

Christine Beuermann (Tasmania, and PhD Candidate, ANU) "Dissociating the Two Forms of So-Called 'Vicarious Liability'"

David Capper (Queen's University Belfast) "The Civil Liability of Participants in the Trial Process"

Hazel Carty (Manchester) "The Case Against Conspiracy"

Robert Chambers (UCL)

Tatiana Cutts (Oxford, DPhil Candidate) "Rights and Powers: Rethinking the 'Irreducible Core' of the Trust"

Paul Davies (Cambridge) "Aid, Abet, Counsel or Procure? Accessory Liability in Private Law"

Andrew Dyson (Oxford, DPhil Candidate) "Mitigation and the Reasonable Person: A Challenge to the Rule in British Westinghouse"

Matthew Dyson (Cambridge) "Crime's Precedence over Tort: Suspension of Civil Actions where a Crime Exists"

Neil Foster (Newcastle, NSW) "Statutes and Civil Liability in the Commonwealth and the United States: A Comparative Critique"

Gerald Fridman (UWO) "On the Disutility of Vicarious Liability"

Mark Gergen (Berkeley) "Privity's Shadow"

James Goudkamp (Oxford) "Rethinking Contributory Negligence"

Geoff R. Hall (McCarthy Tétrault LLP) "The Case for Abolition of the Rule of Inadmissibility of Evidence of Precontractual Negotiations"

Steve Hedley (University College, Cork) "Is 'Private Law' in Need of a Theoretical Explanation?"

Peter Jaffey (Brunel) "The Unjust Enrichment Fallacy"

Joshua Karton (Queen's) "Recognizing a Contractual Right to Suspend Performance"

Gregory Keating (USC) "Does Tort Law Have a Unity, Especially at the Level of Primary Norms?"

Dennis Klimchuk (UWO) "The Rule of Private Law"

Adam Kramer (3 Verulam Buildings) "The Values Protected by a Contract: Rethinking Contract Damages"

François Larocque (Ottawa) "Is Torture a Common Law Tort? Using Private Law to Enforce Fundamental Human Rights"

James Lee (Birmingham) "Legislative Challenges to Orthodoxy"

Catharine MacMillan (Queen Mary) "The Coronation Cases: Legal Responses to Contractual Impossibility"

Ben McFarlane (Oxford) "Why Property does not Include Contractual Rights and Choses in Action"

Claire McIvor (Birmingham) "Using Epidemiological Evidence to Resolve Questions of Probabilistic Causation"

David McLauchlan (Victoria University of Wellington) "The Entire Agreement Clause: Conclusive or a Question of Weight?"

Gerard McMeel (Bristol) "Unjust Enrichment and the Primacy of Contract - the Case for Contract Ceilings"

John Mee (University College, Cork) "The Basis of Resulting Trusts: An Alternative Vision"

John Murphy (Manchester) "The Case against Judicial Immunity in Tort"

Donal Nolan (Oxford) "Deconstructing Duty"

Ken Oliphant (Institute for European Tort Law) "Against Certainty"

Elspeth Reid (Edinburgh) "Challenging 'Affronts to Dignity' as a Conceptual Basis of Intentional Torts"

Pauline Ridge (ANU) "Third Party Liability for Undue Influence"

Arthur Ripstein (Toronto) "Your Own Good Name: Understanding Defamation"

Leonard Rotman (Windsor) "Do Fiduciary Relationships Need an Undertaking?"

Helen Scott (Cape Town) "Allocation of Risk: The New Mistake in Unjust Enrichment?"

Zoë Sinel (Toronto, SJD Candidate) "Worries about the Place of Corrective Justice in Private Law Remedies"

Lionel Smith (McGill) "The Uses and Abuses of Policy"

Stephen Smith (McGill) "Why there is no Duty to Reverse an Unjust Enrichment"

Robert Stevens (UCL) "The Non-Existence of Unjust Enrichment"

William Swadling (Oxford) "Why there is no Presumption of Advancement"

Angela Swan (Aird & Berlis LLP) "Hadley v Baxendale: It's About Stopping, not Starting an Award of Damages"

Jason Varuhas (Cambridge) "The Concept of 'Vindication' in Tort Law"

Graham Virgo (Cambridge) "We Do This in Criminal Law and That in the Law of Obligations: A New Fusion Debate"

Stephen Waddams (Toronto) "Successive Orthodoxies in Contract Law"

Charlie Webb (LSE) "Property, Obligation and Rights"

Mark Wilde (Reading) "Nuisance Law and Damages in Lieu of an Injunction: Challenging the Shelfer Criteria"

Frederick Wilmot-Smith (Oxford, DPhil Candidate) "Reconsidering Failure of Consideration"

Normann Witzleb (Monash) "Interim Injunctions for Invasions of Privacy: Challenging the Rule in Bonnard v Perryman?

Sarah Worthington (Cambridge) "Orthodoxy vs Rationality: The Growing Problems with Proprietary Remedies"

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