Remedies in Australian Private Law

Authors

• Katy Barnett, University of Melbourne

  Katy Barnett received the Barbara Falk Award for excellence in teaching in 2016, primarily for her teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in remedies. She has also taught property, equity and trusts, trusts, torts and contracts. She was awarded her Ph.D. in 2010, and it was published as a monograph entitled Accounting for Profit for Breach of Contract: Theory and Practice (2012). She has published extensively on private law remedies. In early 2013, she was a visiting scholar with Brasenose College, Oxford as part of the Melbourne-Oxford Faculty Exchange. Prior to teaching at the Melbourne Law School, Katy was a banking litigator at Russell Kennedy, an Associate to Justice Mandie at the Supreme Court of Victoria and a Research Assistant to the Court of Appeal at the Supreme Court of Victoria.

• Sirko Harder, University of Sussex

  Sirko Harder is a Reader in Law at the University of Sussex. He previously worked at Monash University, where he taught various areas of private law, including the law of remedies, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Harder has published a number of articles on the law of remedies as well as the monograph Measuring Damages in the Law of Obligations: The Search for Harmonised Principles (2010). He is a co-author, with Luntz et al., of Torts: Cases and Commentary (2017). He has a wealth of expertise in comparative private law, having written about and taught the private law of Australia, England, Germany and Scotland.