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TALK: Tort Law Defences - Contemporary Legal Problems Seminar Series

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Today's date is Thursday, March 28, 2024
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The Law School is pleased to host Dr James Goudkamp who will be giving a talk about his monograph Tort Law Defences published in the series Hart Studies in Private Law. This book has been awarded Joint Second Prize for the 2014 Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.

The law of torts recognises many defences to liability. While some of these defences have been explored in detail, scant attention has been given to the theoretical foundations of defences generally. In particular, no serious attempt has been made to explain how defences relate to each other or to the torts to which they pertain. The goal of this book is to reduce the size of this substantial gap in our understanding of tort law. The principal way in which it attempts to do so is by developing a taxonomy of defences. The book shows that much can be learned about a given defence from the way in which it is classified.

Dr James Goudkamp is a Fellow of Keble College, Oxford, and an Associate Professor in the Oxford Law Faculty. His expertise is principally in tort law, but his research interests span the law of obligations and extend also to civil procedure. James holds or has held visiting positions at Harvard Law School, the Inner Temple, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Wollongong. He is an Honorary Fellow in the Faculty of Law at The University of Western Australia.
Speaker(s) Dr James Goudkamp
Location UWA CBD Offices Level 2, WA Trustees Building 133 St Georges Terrace, Perth
Contact Joanne Rooke <[email protected]> : 6488 7396
Start Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:15
End Wed, 17 Dec 2014 21:00
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Submitted by Marie Knights <[email protected]>
Last Updated Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:39
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