| Obligations, Property, Legal Theory | Friday, 5 July 2024 - 16:09 |
One issue in George v Cannell ([2024] UKSC 19) was whether damages for injury to the claimant’s feelings in the absence of financial loss are recoverable. It is a fascinating case because the SC divided 3:2 against, and because the decision pits the rigour of the majority’s logic against the utilitarianism of the minority’s common sense, two values that ought not to – and do not often – come into conflict in the law … (more)
[John Campbell SC and Jake Rudman, Inforrm’s Blog, 2 July 2024]
Property may be legal or equitable. Examples of equitable property typically given include the interest of a beneficiary under a private express trust and that of a partner in partnership assets. However, beneath this answer lies some complexity … (more)
The Conference will run at our central Bristol campus based in the iconic Wills Memorial Building … (more)
The Institute of International Shipping and Trade Law is pleased to offer this expert international forum for the analysis of contemporary and comparative aspects of commercial insurance law. The Colloquium will be held at Swansea University and will convene a forum of professional and academic experts … (more)
This conference brings together legal educators to showcase innovative approaches to teaching Contract Law, a core module with large student numbers. This conference aims to highlight and explore issues and topics that will be of interest and importance not only to those that teach Contract Law, but also to the wider teaching community … (download)
Presentations can be on any aspect of empirical legal research methodology, on any topic, and from any jurisdiction. Conference organisers welcome abstracts from researchers and academics at any stage of their career on subjects relating to empirical research methods including (but not limited to) … (more)
Campbell v MGN [2004] UKHL 22, [2004] 2 AC 457 is one of the most important privacy and media law decisions handed down in recent decades in the common law world. As is well-known, the case established the tort of misuse of private information (MPI) and has been influential in the development of privacy laws … (more)
Session I: Angela Ferrari Zumbini (U Napoli Federico II), The Project ‘The Dark Side of Algorithms’; Roberto Scarciglia (Trieste U), AI and the State in Comparative Perspective; Péter Mezei (Szeged U) and Erzsébet Csatlós (Szeged U), Hungary; … (more)
We are pleased to announce a conference on ‘Inheritance Inequality’ (the Fifth Biennial Conference on Critical Trusts and Estates). The conference will take place on Friday September 27 and Saturday September 28, 2024 at Drexel University’s Thomas R Kline School of Law, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and will be sponsored by the Drexel Law Review … (more)
How these two systems connect or interact is the subject of the Fourth Canadian Law of Obligations Conference to be held at the Faculté de droit at the Université de Montréal on October 3-4, 2024. This year’s conference is devoted to exploring the extent to which common and civil law are moving toward convergence in the area of private law … (more)
Papers are invited until 15 August 2024. Special themes in 2024 are: (1) sustainable finance and emissions disclosure and their impact on commercial contracts; (2) standard forms and terms in construction contracts – comparative aspects … (more)
The aims of the conference are to provide academics with an informal and supportive environment in which to present work in progress, and to facilitate a collegial discussion of issues related to teaching and publishing in the field. We encourage early and midcareer academics and research higher degree students to consider presenting on aspects of their work relating to the broad conference theme of ‘Wrongs in Private and Commercial Law’ … (more)
Building on previous findings, the third conference will take for granted that many people, if not all, are vulnerable in the digital world. The questions we will discuss at the conference therefore are: what can be done? … (more, call for papers)
This will be co-hosted by Harvard Law School and Melbourne Law School and will be convened by John Goldberg, Andrew Robertson and Henry Smith. A call for papers will be issued in 2024 … (more)
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