Books
Contract law and contract remedies
Katy Barnett, Damages for Breach of Contract (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 2025, 3rd edn) vi + 346 pp.
Katy Barnett, Damages for Breach of Contract (London, Sweet & Maxwell, 2022, 2nd edn) lxii + 296 pp.
Katy Barnett, Accounting for Profit for Breach of Contract: Theory and Practice (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2012) xxiv + 232 pp.
Remedies law generally
Katy Barnett and Sirko Harder, Private Law Remedies (Cheltenham UK, Edward Elgar, 2025) viii + 379 pp.
Katy Barnett and Sirko Harder, Remedies in Australian Private Law (Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2024, 3rd edn) cxi + 587 pp.
Katy Barnett, Kenneth Yin and Martin Allcock, Remedies Cases and Materials in Australian Private Law (Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2023) xliii + 701 pp.
Katy Barnett and Sirko Harder, Remedies in Australian Private Law (Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 2nd edn) xcviii + 572 pp.
Animal law
Katy Barnett and Jeremy Gans, 有罪的猪: 稀奇古怪的动物法历史 [‘Guilty Pigs: The Curious History of Animal Law’] translated by Shao Yi, 邵逸, (The Commercial Press Ltd, 2025) v + 463 pp.
Katy Barnett and Jeremy Gans, Guilty Pigs: the weird and wonderful history of animal law (Collingwood, Latrobe University Press, 2022) 355 pp.
Other private law
Megan Richardson, Michael Bryan, Martin Vranken and Katy Barnett, Breach of Confidence: Social Origins and Modern Developments (Cheltenham UK, Edward Elgar, 2012) ix + 170 pp.
Edited Books
Contract law
Katy Barnett, William Day, Jonathan Morgan and Andrew Robertson (eds), Default and Mandatory Rules in Contract and Commercial Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2026) xxxviii + 306 pp.
Chapters
Contract law and contract remedies
Katy Barnett, ‘Date of Breach as a Sticky Default Rule and the Role of the Court in Assessing Reasonable Mitigatory Measures’ in Katy Barnett, William Day, Jonathan Morgan and Andrew Robertson (eds), Default and Mandatory Rules in Contract and Commercial Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2026) pp. 181–202.
Katy Barnett, ‘Accepting offer and acceptance? Implied or inferred contracts’, in PG Willis (ed), Binding Authority: 150 Years of Law Reporting in Victoria (Victorian Reports, 2025) pp. 555–572.
Katy Barnett, ‘The Policy Behind Contract Damages: Beyond Voluntary Assumption of a Risk or Gap Filling’ in Jodi Gardner, Amy Goymour, Janet O’Sullivan and Sarah Worthington (eds), Politics, Policy and Private Law Volume 2 (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2025) pp. 49–69.
Katy Barnett, ‘Damages’ in K.V. Krishnaprasad, Shivprasad Swaminathan, Umakanth Varottil and V. Niranjan (eds), Foundations of Indian Contract Law (Oxford, Oxford University Publishing, 2024) pp. 336–368.
Katy Barnett and Matthew Harding, ‘Contract in the Time of COVID-19’ in Belinda Bennett and Ian Freckleton (eds), Pandemics, Public Health Emergencies and Government Powers: Perspectives on Australian Law (Federation Press, 2021) pp. 211–224.
Katy Barnett, ‘Exemplary Damages in Contract Law’ in Elise Bant, Wayne Courtney, James Goudkamp and Jeannie Marie Paterson (eds), Punishment and Private Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2021) pp. 225–254.
Katy Barnett, ‘The “Performance Interest” in Contract Law’ in John Eldridge and Timothy Pilkington (eds), Australian Contract Law in the 21st Century (Federation Press, 2021) pp. 22–41.
Katy Barnett and Sirko Harder, ‘A comparative consideration of the penalties doctrine in England and Australia' in R.L. Weaver, S.I. Friedland, L. Tranchant, and G. Gil, (eds) Twenty-First Century Remedies: Comparative Perspectives Global Papers Series X (Carolina Academic Press, 2019) pp. 115–130.
Tort
Katy Barnett, ‘Bailment and the ‘three body problem’’ in James Penner, Henry Smith, Irina Sakharova and Zhong Xing Tan (eds), Property Contract Interface: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2026, in press).
Katy Barnett, ‘Inducing Breach of Contract’ in Claudia Carr, Michael Douglas and John Eldridge (eds), Economic Torts and Economic Wrongs (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2021) pp. 85–105.
Trusts
Katy Barnett, Tobias Barkley and Mark Bennett, ‘Settlors’ Reserved Powers’ in Mark Bennett, Lusina Ho, Adam Hofri-Winogradow and Richard Nolan (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Trust Law (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2025).
Katy Barnett and Mark Bennett, ‘‘Asset Protection Trusts’ in the Cook Islands: Boundaries and Context’, in Ying Khai Liew and Masayuki Tamaruya (eds), Asia-Pacific Trusts Law, Vol 3: Boundaries in Context (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2025) pp. 113–131.
Katy Barnett, ‘Adaptation of Offshore Trusts in the South Pacific: tension between commercial and social needs’ in Ying Khai Liew and Ying-Chieh Wu (eds), Asia-Pacific Trusts Law: Volume 2: Adaptation in Context (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2022) pp. 149–180.
Katy Barnett, ‘Offshore trusts in the South Pacific: how far can the concept of the trust be stretched before it breaks?’ in Matthew Harding and Ying Khai Liew (eds), Asia-Pacific Trusts Law Volume 1: Theory and Practice in Context (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2021) pp. 353–379.
Animal law
Katy Barnett, ‘Bees in Nineteenth Century Law and Lore’ in Alexis Harley and Christopher Harrington (eds), Bees, Science and Sex in the Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century (Springer, 2023) pp. 151–168.
Remedies
Katy Barnett, ‘Causation, remoteness and calculation of damages for financial mis-selling’ in Sandra Booysen (ed), Financial Advice and Investor Protection: Comparative Law and Practice (Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar, 2021) pp. 130–163.
Katy Barnett, ‘Lord Cairns’ Act and Statutory Interpretation – Give the Court an Inch and They’ll Take a Mile’ in Prue Vines and Scott Donald (eds), Statutory Interpretation in Private Law (Federation Press, 2019) pp. 207– 227.
Restitution and disgorgement
Katy Barnett, ‘Restitution versus Compensation and Disgorgement’ in Elise Bant, Kit Barker and Simone Degeling (eds), Research Handbook on Unjust Enrichment and Restitution (Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar, 2020) pp. 456–475.
Katy Barnett, ‘Gain-Based Damages’ in David Campbell and Roger Halson (eds), Research Handbook on Remedies in Private Law (Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar, 2019) pp. 311–331.
Katy Barnett, ‘Gain-based relief for breach of privacy’ in J.N.E. Varuhas and Nicole Moreham (eds), Remedies for Breach of Privacy (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2018) pp. 183–204.
Katy Barnett, ‘Disgorgement of Profits in Australian Private Law’ in Ewoud Hondius and André Janssen (eds), Disgorgement of Profits: Gain-based Remedies Throughout the World, Series: Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law, Vol. 8 (Springer International, Switzerland, 2015) pp. 13–28.
Katy Barnett, ‘Substitutability and disgorgement damages in contract’ in Elise Bant and Matthew Harding (eds), Exploring Private Law (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2010) pp. 377–401.