Katy Barnett

Legal scholar

Books

Contract law and contract remedies

Remedies law generally

Animal law

Other private law

Edited Books

Contract law

  • Katy Barnett, William Day, Jonathan Morgan and Andrew Robertson (eds), Default and Mandatory Rules: Issues and Themes (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2025, in press).

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: Issues and Themes (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2025, in press).

  • 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, 2025, 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, in press).

  • Katy Barnett, ‘‘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

Remedies

Restitution and disgorgement