Academic papers
Contract law and contract remedies
‘Inferred and implied terms’ on panel with Gordon J of the High Court of Australia, Barrett AJ of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Burchell J of the County Court of Victoria; and ‘Director’s guarantees’ on panel with Michael Sifris KC, Cosgrave J of the Supreme Court of Victoria and Burchell J, at ‘Current Issues in contract law’ for Victorian judges at Judicial College of Victoria, on 19 September 2025.
The Institutional Revolution and the birth of modern contract damages’ presented at
o Obligations Group, Melbourne Law School, on 25 June 2025
o Obligations XI Conference, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, United States, on 8 July 2025
‘Vroon BV v Foster’s Brewing Group; Toyota v Ken Morgan‘ presented at Symposium on 150 Years of Authorised Law Reporting in Victoria, 30 May 2025.
‘Date of Breach and The Golden Victory – reasonable mitigatory measures missing in action’ presented to MLS-Cambridge Law Faculty Research Partnership, Default and Mandatory Rules in Contract and Commercial Law, 15 April 2024, remotely via Zoom.
‘The Policy Behind Contract Damages: Beyond Voluntary Assumption of a Risk or Gap Filling’ presented at Policy, Politics and Private Law Workshop, Selwyn College, Cambridge University, 27–28 March 2023.
‘The “Performance Interest” in Contract Law’ presented to Supreme Court of Victoria judges, Melbourne, 7 March 2022, remotely via Zoom.
‘The “Performance Interest” in Contract Law’ presented at NUS Private Law Research Group Seminar, 11 October 2021, remotely via Zoom.
‘Exemplary damages in contract law’ presented at CUHK Law, CCTL Obligations Lab Asia book talk (Punishment in Private Law), 27 October 2021, remotely via Zoom.
‘Damages’ presented at the Conference on 150 Years of the Indian Contract Act 1872, jointly hosted by Jindal Global Law School, University of Melbourne and National University of Singapore, 15 August 2020, 22 August 2020, 15 September 2020, remotely via Zoom.
‘Punishment in contract law and equity’ presented at the Conference on Punishment in Private Law, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 16–18 December 2019.
‘Mitigation and Remoteness’ presented at Conference on the 30th Anniversary of the Journal of Contract Law, Sydney, 27–28 July 2018.
(presented with Dr Sirko Harder) ‘A comparative consideration of the penalties doctrine in England and Australia’ presented at Remedies Discussion Forum, University of Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France, 27–28 June 2018.
‘Interpretation of contracts and investment trusts: Korda v Australian Executor Trustees’ presented at Commonwealth Law Conference, Melbourne, 22 March 2017.
‘‘Great Expectations’: convergences and divergences between Australian and English law on expectation damages in contract’ presented at
o Melbourne University Faculty Research Seminar Series on 12 May 2014; and
o Obligations VII Conference in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, July 2014.
Cryptoassets and equity
The Australian approach to cryptoassets: another block in the chain’ presented at 41st Annual Conference of the Banking and Financial Services Law Association, Queenstown, on 31 August 2025
Tort
‘Bailment and the ‘three body problem’’ presented at Property-Contract Interface Workshop, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 16–18 December 2024.
Legal history and history
‘Clameur de haro: What an ancient Norman self-help remedy shows as about the common law today’ presented at University of Melbourne Medieval Round Table, 7 October 2024, via Zoom.
(with Lynne Barnett) ‘A Vignette of Jewish and Non-Jewish Solidarity in Early Colonial Sydney from Family History’ presented at Australian Jewish Historical Society, Melbourne, 5 September 2024.
‘The Statute of Labourers, the Black Death and Inducing Breach of Contract’ presented to University of Melbourne Medieval Round Table, University of Melbourne, 6 November 2023.
Trust law
‘Guardians and Protectors’ at STEP Australia National Trust and Estate Conference 2024, Society for Trust and Estate Professionals, Melbourne, 9–10 May 2024.
(presented by Mark Bennett, with Tobias Barkley) ‘Settlors’ Reserved Powers’ presented at The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Trust Laws Conference, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Colombia, Canada 5–7 April 2024.
(presented with Mark Bennett) ‘‘Asset Protection Trusts’ in the Cook Islands: Boundaries and Context’ presented Conference on Asia-Pacific Trusts Law: Boundaries and Context at University of Tokyo, Japan, 15–16 December 2023.
‘South Pacific Offshore Trusts’ as part of a general presentation on ‘Trusts Law in the Asia-Pacific Region: Modern Trends and Contemporary Issues’ with Professor Tang Hang Wu, Associate Professor Ying Khai Liew, Professor Lusina Ho and Associate Professor Wu Ying-Chieh, Singapore Management University, 12 July 2022, remotely via Zoom.
‘Offshore Trusts in the South Pacific’ presented to CPA NSW Forensic Accounting Discussion Group, Sydney, 22 March 2022, remotely via CiscoWebex.
‘Offshore Trusts in the Asia Pacific’ presented at the Conference on Asia-Pacific Trusts Law: Theory and Practice in Context, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, 9–10 December 2019.
‘Form and substance and the award of constructive trusts over bribes’ presented at Obligations XI Conference in Melbourne, 17–20 July 2018.
‘Consistency and Certainty in Rule Making and the Constructive Trust over Bribes’ at conference on the Law of Civil Wrongs, Melbourne Law School, 4 and 5 December 2014.
‘Proprietary remedies over bribes and distributive justice’ presented at
o Oxford Obligations Group, Oxford, United Kingdom, on 23 January 2013
o LSE Private Law Group, London, United Kingdom, on 30 January 2013
o Cambridge Private Law Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, on 1 February 2013
o Trusts Workshop at Melbourne Law School on 5 December 2013; and
o La Trobe Law Faculty on 13 March 2014.
Academic freedom
‘The law of academic freedom: can it be given “teeth”?’ at Melbourne Symposium on Intellectual Freedom in the Academy, Free Speech Union, Melbourne, 21 May 2024.
Animal law
‘Rare Book Lecture: The Weird and Wonderful World of Animals and the Law’ presented at Rare Book Public Lecture, University of Melbourne, 19 September 2023 (public lecture).
‘Owning Wild Animals: The Birds and the Bees’ presented to University of Melbourne Medieval Round Table, 1 August 2022, University of Melbourne, remotely via Zoom.
‘Killer Pigs in the Law of Late Medieval to Early Modern Europe: “things” or “people”?’ presented to University of Melbourne Medieval Round Table, University of Melbourne 8 November 2021, remotely via Zoom.
Remedies generally
‘Remedies in Commercial Law’ presented at Supreme Court of Victoria Judicial Conference, Melbourne, 23–24 May 2019.
‘Causation, remoteness, and calculation of damages awards for financial mis-selling’ presented at Symposium: Banks, Mis-selling and the Retail Investor, National University of Singapore, 14 December 2017.
‘Give an inch, take a mile” – Lord Cairns’ Act and statutory gap-filling’ presented at conference on Statutory Interpretation and Private Law, University of New South Wales, 28 October 2017.
‘Lord Cairns’ Act: A Comparative Tour’ presented at Remedies Discussion Forum, Dauphine Université Paris, 16–17 June 2015.
(presented with Professor Michael Bryan) ‘Lord Cairns’ Act: A Case Study in the Unintended Consequences of Legislation’ presented at Equity in the Age of Statues Conference, MLS, 27 February 2015.
‘The Bell Group Settlement: Where Does it Leave Us?’ with Associate Professor Pamela Hanrahan and Professor Michael Bryan at Melbourne Law School on 29 October 2013*
‘Equitable compensation and remoteness’ presented at
o Melbourne University Faculty Research Seminar Series, 10 September 2012; and
o Equity Workshop, University of Melbourne, 27 November 2012.
Restitution and disgorgement
‘Attorney-General v Blake: Far from revolutionary in practice’ presented by Michael Bryan on my behalf at Obligations VIII Conference in Cambridge, United Kingdom, 20 July 2016.
‘’Reasonable fee damages’ as partial disgorgement for breach of contract,’ presented at
o Contracts Workshop at Melbourne University on 1-2 December 2011; and
o Conference on Law of Obligations VI, London, Ontario, 21 July 2012.
‘Substitutability and Disgorgement Damages in Contract’ presented at Remedies Workshop, University of Melbourne, 11 December 2009.
‘Corrective justice and gain-based remedies’ presented at Conference on Law of Obligations IV, National University of Singapore, 23 July 2008.
Breach of confidence
‘Secrets and Lies,’ presented at Communication and Media Law Conference, University of Melbourne, 26 November 2010.
teaching
Presented as part of a panel of academics advising new lecturers as to teaching techniques (Teaching@Melbourne) at the invitation of the Centre for the Study of Higher Education (CSHE) (2018 and 2019)
Presented as part of a panel to the biannual Teaching and Learning Summit on 25 November 2020 on online assessment and its challenges at the invitation of the CSHE
Presented as part of a panel to the Melbourne Leadership Conference (15–16 February 2021) on the importance of face-to-face teaching, with a follow-up video discussion at the request of Chancellery
Presented as part of a panel to the Melbourne Law School All Staff Strategy Day on face-to-face teaching (8 December 2021)
university governance
Presented on a panel with Kylie Gould (UTS General Counsel) and Helen Fleming (HF Associates) on ‘Upholding the Voltaire Dictum: The Delicate Balance between Free Speech and a Safe Campus Environment’ at Society of University Lawyers Conference (14–15 November 2024), Melbourne, Victoria on balancing freedom of speech and staff safety: legal, academic and ethical considerations.