Lecturer – Property and Contracts Law – Sydney, NSW | Private Law Theory

Lecturer – Property and Contracts Law – Sydney, NSW

Steve Hedley on 12 October 2018 — Leave a Comment

UNSW Law is seeking to appoint a scholar at Lecturer level with expertise in property and contracts law. The Lecturer is responsible for contributing to the School’s teaching programs, research, and engagement activities of the School and to carry out the duties of a Lecturer in their field of expertise. The appointee is expected to develop and maintain a strong program of individual research and to participate actively in the Law School’s research culture more generally … (more)

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KCON XIV: 14th Annual International Conference on Contracts: Tulane University, 8-9 March 2019

The two-day conference welcomes contracts scholars and teachers of all experience levels, as well as those preparing to enter the academy and scholars whose primary teaching appointments are not in law schools … (more)

The ‘Acceptable’ Cartel? Horizontal Agreements under Competition Law and Beyond: London School of Economics and Political Science, 22 March 2019

The workshop will explore the circumstances in which agreements between competitors can be deemed to fall outside the constraints of competition law, considering both antitrust and self-regulation approaches, and addressing EU law and beyond. The organisers are interested in receiving paper proposals on themes related to the conference topic, in particular: Private law approaches to the regulation of horizontal agreements, including theories of self-regulation; … (more)

The CISG at Middle Age: University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 22-23 March 2019

On Friday morning, panelists will discuss topics dealing with ‘The Past of the CISG: Its Successes and Failures’. This session will honor the memory of Peter Schechtriem … (more)

BACL Postgraduate Workshop on Comparative Law, Lancaster University, 11-12 April 2019

The BACL Postgraduate Workshop on Comparative Law is designed for doctoral students working on dissertations in the field of comparative legal studies and related subjects. In a round-table setting, the 2-day workshop will address both the benefits and methodological problems of postgraduate research … (more, call for abstracts)

A New Deal for Civil Justice? The New Deal for Consumers and the Justiciability of EU Consumer Rights: Amsterdam, 11-12 April 2019

The conference is organised by the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) and revolves around the New Deal for Consumers that was proposed by the European Commission on 11 April 2018 … (more)

Roundtable on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property: Alexandria, Virginia, 12-13 April 2019

The sixth annual Roundtable on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property, hosted by Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Cardozo Law School, and the United States Patent & Trademark Office, will take place at the USPTO headquarters … (more)

18th Annual Conference on European Tort Law, Vienna, 25-27 April 2019

The Conference provides practitioners and academics alike with the opportunity to learn about the most significant tort law developments in Europe in 2018 … (more)

Law and Artificial Intelligence, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 9-10 May 2019

Submissions are cordially invited for the conference ‘Law and Artificial Intelligence’, an international scholarly conference devoted to the problems posted by modern technology. Junior scholars are particularly encouraged to participate … (more)

Reimagining Contract in a World of Global Value Chains: Sciences Po, Paris, 9-10 May 2019

We want to open the table for a reimagining of the very foundations of the basic private law paradigm of contract, whether related to contract per se or the more general regulation of contractually structured entities of production. These re-imaginings could draw from recent theoretical or empirical approaches to value chain governance, private international law, or the political economy of contract dogma … (more, call for papers)

The Contents of Commercial Contracts: Terms Affecting Freedoms: University College London, 9-10 May 2019

The contents of commercial contracts continue to attract much attention from all angles: from drafters keen to ensure that contracts are clear and enforceable; from litigators disputing the meaning, scope and validity of terms; and from academics interested in the purpose and nature of the exercises involved. The focus of this conference will be upon terms affecting parties’ freedom of action, which have proved problematic recently … (more)

American Society of Comparative Law, Younger Comparativists Committee: 8th Global Conference: McGill University, 10-11 May 2019

The purpose of the conference is to highlight, develop, and promote the scholarship of younger scholars of Comparative Law. Submissions will be accepted on any subject in public or private comparative law … (more, call for papers)

Canadian Law of Obligations Conference, University of New Brunswick, 10-11 May 2019

Plan to attend the second Canadian Law of Obligations conference on May 10-11, 2019 at the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law in Fredericton, NB. The conference will bring together established and new scholars and practitioners in areas of Contracts, Torts and Restitution. Its aim is to promote scholarship and collaboration in this area of private law … (more, call for abstracts)

Privacy protection in the 21st century: Tilburg University: Symposium 14 May 2019 and VICI panels 15 May 2019

In privacy protection, the traditional distinction between private and public physical spaces is becoming less useful in determining what really is protection-worthy. The walls of the home are ‘evaporating’ and it is becoming increasingly more difficult to use them to shield in-home activities … (more)

Law, Property, and Society: ALPS 10th Annual Conference: Syracuse New York, 16-18 May 2019

Paper submissions on any subject related to property law and the practices that shape property norms and institutions are welcome. ALPS has a strong commitment to international and interdisciplinary diversity … (more)

Socio-Legal Approaches to Property: Panels to be held at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting: Washington DC, 30 May – 2 June 2019

We invite original, unpublished submissions from scholars at any stage of their careers. We are interested in empirically-based papers examining any issues related to the treatment of land and other tangible things as property … (more)

The Place of Restitution in the Modern Law: 30 Years after ‘An Introduction to the Law of Restitution’: Leeds School of Law, 11 June 2019

There will be two themes explored by the conference. The first is a comparative theme. Canadian law for example has taken a significantly different tack in its development from other common law jurisdictions in that it uses the formulation “absence of juristic reason” as the underlying rationale … (more, call for papers)

Communities and Community Practices: Paris, 11 June 2019

Communities emerge along the margins of social organizations, which are expressly framed by law. While this phenomenon is not new (eg, peasant, family, or artist communities), it has experienced a new growth engaged in the broader trend of reconceptualizing the relationship between persons and property … (more)

Autonomy in Private Law: Past, Present, Future: Private Law Junior Scholars Conference, Tel Aviv University, 19-20 June 2019

Autonomy has long stood as the central pillar of conventional scholarship in private law. Much of private law, as depicted in these accounts, is built around the ideal-typical vision of autonomous agents as the relevant legal subjects, and frequently, private law is also claimed to realize and enhance autonomy … (more, call for papers)

Rethinking Property Approaches in Resources for the Circular Economy: Coventry University, 21 June 2019

Faced with constrained resources and the needs for sustainable models of growth, there are growing calls to transition to ‘circular economies’ in which resource and waste streams are reused, recycled, or recovered instead of sent to landfill or incinerated in order to achieve both economic prosperity and environmental protection … (more)

SECOLA Conference: ‘European Contract Law and Sustainability’: 21-22 June 2019, Thessaloniki

Herewith we invite you to hand in abstracts (up to 400 words) for the above mentioned topic until 15th of October. Areas in which we are particularly interested include: a) European Contract Law and sustainability instruments; b) European Contract Law and economic sustainability; … (more)

Data-Driven Personalisation in Markets, Politics and Law: Southampton Law School, 28 June 2019

This is an important emerging area of law that goes well beyond data protection law, raising questions for criminal law, consumer protection, competition and IP law, tort law, administrative law, human rights and anti-discrimination law, law and economics as well as legal and constitutional theory … (more)

The Transparent Trap: Disclosing Information to Consumers: Amsterdam, 4-5 July 2019

The Centre for the Study of European Contract Law at the University of Amsterdam, SRH Hochschule Berlin and University of Exeter are organising together an international, interdisciplinary conference on 4-5 July in Amsterdam … (more)

Economics and Philosophy in Private Law Theory: 10th MetaLawEcon workshop, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, 5-6 July 2019

Where does this debate about the role of economics and philosophy in private law scholarship stand now and where should it go? This is the main question we shall address in an interdisciplinary workshop at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. More specific issues to discuss include the following: … (more, call for papers)

2019 British Legal History Conference, St Andrews, Scotland, 10-13 July 2019

The British Legal History Conference will take place on the 10–13 July 2019 at the University of St Andrews. The theme of the conference is ‘Comparative Legal History’. This website contains information about the conference and will be updated regularly … (more)

Sixth Annual International and Comparative Urban Law Conference: UNSW, Sydney, Australia, 11-12 July 2019

Since 2014, this annual Conference has welcomed leading scholars from a range of urban law perspectives to present their research. Now in its sixth year, the Conference will build on this tradition, again providing a dynamic forum for legal scholars from around the globe to share diverse international, comparative, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the intersection of cities and law … (more)

Law of Trusts and Wealth Management: Supreme Court, Singapore, 1-2 August 2019

Like its predecessors, the conference will focus on current developments and challenges facing trust law and wealth management in the contemporary political climate, with particular emphasis on the issues raised by the growth of Asian wealth, and the global context in which that is happening … (more, call for papers)

Recreating Copyright Law – Redesigning Design Law – Rebranding Trademark Law – Reinventing Patent Law: ATRIP Conference, Nashville, 25-28 August 2019

There have been, and continue to be, many efforts — perhaps too many — to reform IP law. Those efforts tend to go into two, somewhat opposite directions. One is to reform the laws that have been on the books for decades or more … (more, call for papers)

SLS Annual Conference: University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 3-6 September 2019

The 2019 Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference will be held at the University of Central Lancashire in Preston, from Tuesday 3rd September – Friday 6th September, under the Presidency of Professor Richard Taylor. This year’s theme is ‘Central Questions About Law’ … (more, call for papers)

Journal of Private International Law Conference: Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, 12-14 September 2019

The Journal has hosted very successful conferences in Aberdeen (2005), Birmingham (2007), New York (2009), Milan (2011), Madrid (2013), Cambridge (2015) and Rio de Janeiro (2017). Its biennial conferences provide a unique forum for scholars from all over the world … (more, call for papers)

Communities and Community Practices: Montreal, 11 October 2019

Judges in Utopia: Civil Courts as European Courts: Young Scholars Conference: Amsterdam, 7-8 November 2019

The conference’s aim is to reflect with legal scholars and practitioners on the reconceptualization of the role of civil courts in today’s European private legal order. Specifically, the conference’s focus lies on the courts’ potential to open up space in the deliberative process on concepts of justice in European private law … (more, call for papers)

Irish Association of Law Teachers: Annual Conference: Limerick, 22-23 November 2019

The conference will take place at the Strand Hotel, overlooking the Shannon over the weekend of 22 to 23 November 2019 … (more)

Obligations X: Harvard Law School, 14-17 July 2020

The Tenth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations will be held at Harvard Law School from 14-17 July 2020. The conference will be co-hosted by Harvard Law School and Melbourne Law School and will address the theme Private Law Inside and Out … (more)

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