Journal articles

Contract law and contract remedies

• Katy Barnett, ‘Reflections on the principles of remoteness in contract in comparative law’ (2024) 37(5) International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique (Special Issue: Legal Comparison beyond the Law in Late Rodolfo Sacco) pp. 1587–1616.

• Elise Bant, Katy Barnett and Jeannie Marie Paterson, ‘‘Plain Sailing?’: Damages for Distress and the Performance Interest in Contract’ (2020) 36 Journal of Contract Law: pp. 272–288.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Mitigation and Remoteness in Contract: Policy and Principle’ (2019) 36(1) Journal of Contract Law: pp. 5–21.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Review Article: A Critical Consideration of Substitutive Awards in Contract Law’ (2018) 81(6) Modern Law Review: pp. 1064–1082.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Substitutive damages and mitigation in contract law: tension between two competing norms’ (2016) 28 Singapore Academy of Law Journal: pp. 795–824.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Great Expectations: a Dissection of Expectation Damages in Contract in Australia and England’ (2016) 33(1) Journal of Contract Law: pp. 1–20.

• Katy Barnett, ‘When the Law is a Lottery: New South Wales Lotteries Ltd v Kuzmanovski’ (2012) 38 Monash University Law Review: pp. 246–270.

Trusts and equity

• Katy Barnett. ‘“Pistols at dawn” and the powers of trustees, appointors, and guardians: who comes trumps in a dispute over a family trust?’ (2025) 19 Journal of Equity (forthcoming).

• Katy Barnett, ‘Protectors and Guardians: Observations from Australia’ (2024) 30(7) Trusts & Trustees pp. 407–413.

• Katy Barnett ‘Chasing will-o’-the-wisp: the English courts’ impossible quest for certainty in relation to constructive trusts over bribes’ (2019) 25(2) Trusts & Trustees: pp. 319–327.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Distributive justice and proprietary remedies over bribes’ (2015) 35(2) Legal Studies: pp. 302–322.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Thorne v Kennedy – A thorn in the side of binding financial agreements?’ (2018) 31(1) Australian Journal of Family Law: pp. 183–193.

Remedies generally

• Katy Barnett, ‘A reconsideration of section 1324(10) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth): damages in lieu of an injunction’ (2018) 36 Company and Securities Law Journal: pp. 370–376.

• Katy Barnett and Michael Bryan, ‘Lord Cairns’s Act: A case study in the unintended consequences of legislation’ (2015) 9(2) Journal of Equity: pp. 150–166.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Equitable compensation and remoteness: not so remote from the common law after all’ (2014) 38(1) University of Western Australia Law Review: pp. 48–79.

Academic freedom

• Katy Barnett and Bill Swannie, ‘The need for academic freedom as an enforceable legal right in Australia’ (Summer 2025) 211 Telos pp. 101–115.

Legal history and history

• Katy Barnett and Lynne Barnett, ‘A Vignette of Jewish and Non-Jewish Solidarity in Early Colonial Sydney from Family History’ (2025) 27(2) Australian Jewish Historical Society Journal pp. 176–205.

• Katy Barnett and Lynne Barnett, ‘Equity’s Darling and the Burwood Ejectment Case: a turning point in Australian Colonial law’ (2022) 96(12) Australian Law Journal: pp. 890–905.

Restitution and disgorgement

• Katy Barnett, ‘Deterrence and disgorging profits for breach of contract’ (2009) 17 Restitution Law Review: pp. 79–97.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Rightful Return’ (2007) 81 Law Institute Journal:  pp. 70–71.

• Katy Barnett, ‘The Uneasy Position of Unjust Enrichment after Roxborough v Rothmans’ (2002) 23 Adelaide Law Review: pp. 277–304.

Property law

• Katy Barnett, ‘The mirror of title crack'd from side to side? The amazing half-life of the equitable mortgage' (2007) 14 Australian Property Law Journal: pp. 238–258.

Citation

• Katy Barnett, ‘Citation as a measure of 'impact': Female legal academics at a disadvantage?’ (2019) 44(4) Alternative Law Journal: pp. 267–274.

Casenotes

Contract law and contract remedies

• Katy Barnett, ‘No ‘scuttling’ the deal to get out of paying a debt’ (2025) 2 Commercial and Contract Law Review pp. 164–171.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Contract Damages – Reliance Damages – Wasted Expenditure – “Facilitation Principle”: Cessnock City Council v 123 259 932 Pty Ltd’ (2024) 98(11) Australian Law Journal pp. 899–903.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Wasted Expenditure and Contract Damages’ (2024) 83(3) Cambridge Law Journal pp. 425–428.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Casenote: “Reliance damages” for breach of contract: 123 259 932 Pty Ltd v Cessnock City Council [2023] NSWCA 21’ (2023) 39(1) Journal of Contract Law pp. 2–6.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Corralling the Penalties Horse - Paciocco v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd [2016] HCA 28’ (2016) 170 Australian Construction Law Newsletter: pp. 28–31.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Before the High Court, Paciocco v Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd: Are Late Payment Fees on Credit Cards Enforceable?’ (2015) 37(4) Sydney Law Review: pp. 417–427.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Contractual Expectations and Goods (note)’ (2014) 130 Law Quarterly Review: pp. 387–391.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Bank fees may be illegal penalties’ (2012) 37 Alternative Law Journal 283.

• Katy Barnett, ‘The Midas Touch - Profits from the King's Gold Piano (148 Investment Group v Elvis Presley Enterprises)’ (2010) 18 Restitution Law Review: pp. 83–86.

Indigenous people and the law

• Katy Barnett, ‘The High Court holds that a “book-up” credit system issued to a remote indigenous community was not unconscionable conduct: Australian Securities and Investment Commission v Kobelt [2019] HCA 19 (12 June 2019)’ (2019) 6(2) Rights of Indigenous Peoples Interest Group Newsletter pp. 4–5.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Western Australia v Ward; One Step Forward and Two Steps Back: Native Title and the Bundle of Rights Analysis’ (2000) 24 Melbourne University Law Review: pp. 462–477.

Book reviews & etc

• Katy Barnett, ‘Obituary: Harold Luntz AO (25 February 1937 – 29 January 2025)’ (2025) 99(5) Australian Law Journal pp. 428–429

• Katy Barnett, ‘Nine-Tenths of the Law? A Review of An Expressive Theory of Possession (Michael JR Crawford, Hart Publishing 2020, ISBN 978-1-50992-992-4)’ (2021) University of New South Wales Law Journal Forum No. 7.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Review of ‘Rethinking the Law of Contract Damages’ by Victor P Goldberg’ (2021) 80(2) Cambridge Law Journal pp. 411–413.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Tribute to Doug Rendleman’ (2021) 78(1) Washington and Lee Law Review pp. 3–5.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Academia’ (2020) 94(11) Australian Law Journal pp. 811–813.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Obituary: Suzan Shabnam Davies: 13 August 1975 – 23 April 2019’ (2019) 20(1) Melbourne Journal of International Law pp. i–ii.

• Katy Barnett, ‘Book Review: Remedies by David Wright’ (2015) 9(1) Journal of Equity pp. 102–105.