Kylie Burns is a Professor in the Griffith Law School. Professor Burns has research expertise in tort law, personal injury law, accident compensation systems, the National Disability Insurance Scheme, judicial reasoning and cognition, and judicial psychological stress. She is a co-author of the leading Australian torts textbook Torts: Cases, Legislation and Commentary. She is currently a co-investigator on two Australian Research Council Discovery Projects.Jodi Gardner is the Brian Coote Chair in Private Law at the University of Auckland. Her research focuses on the relationship between the private law and social policy. Professor Gardner's research has covered topics including inequality in contract law, vulnerability in tort law, high-cost credit agreements, the impact of austerity measures, debt collection contracts, the effect of technological developments on equality and financial exclusion, and concurrent liability in tort and contract.Jonathan Morgan is Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge, Fellow and Director of Studies in Law, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His research and teaching interests cover Contract, Tort, Human Rights and Constitutional Law-including their historical, theoretical, and economic dimensions. His books include Great Debates in Tort Law (2022) and Contract Law Minimalism (2012).Sandy Steel is Professor of Law and Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford, and Lee Shau Kee's Sir Man Kam Lo Fellow in Law, Wadham College, Oxford. His research interests are in private law, particularly torts and remedies, and philosophical issues raised by the legal doctrine. His books include Proof of Causation in Tort Law (CUP, 2015), Omissions in Tort Law (OUP, forthcoming, 2024), and Great Debates in Jurisprudence (with Nick McBride, Palgrave 2018, 2nd edn).

This fascinating book achieves its goal of honouring Stapleton. In the foreword, Lord Reed, president of the UK Supreme Court, pays a personal tribute: 'The judiciary and common law owe Professor Stapleton a considerable debt. Her kind of scholarship is greatly valued by the judiciary and, as she has put it, can offer "scholars the thrilling prospect of collaborating on the real-world project of identifying and articulating the living common law".'

• Introduction: Jane Stapleton's Tort Scholarship on Three Continents Part I General Themes of Tort Law 1: Hon Susan Kiefel: Professor Jane Stapleton and her Dialogue with the Courts 2: Mark A. Geistfeld: Unifying Principles within Pluralist Tort Adjudication 3: Anita Bernstein: The Torts Scholar as Disaggregator 4: Jenny Steele and TT Arvind: Tort and Insurance as Private Law 5: Kylie Burns: Fulfilling the Promise of the Golden Thread?: Vulnerability and Australian Negligence Law Part II Negligence 6: Nicholas J McBride: The Real Gist of Negligence 7: Ellen M Bublick: Duty of Care Factors: Principle and Policy Decisions in the United States 8: Roderick Bagshaw: What is âReasonable Foreseeabilityâ? 9: Imogen Goold and Catherine Kelly: Time to Cut Ties: Reforming the Secondary Victim âControl Mechanismsâ in Pure Psychiatric Injury 10: Philip Sales: An âOpaque Conclusionary Labelâ?: Assumption of Responsibility and Pure Economic Loss Part III Causation 11: Richard W Wright: Dialogues on Causation with Stapleton 12: Gemma Turton: Causation at a Tipping Point: Material Contribution and the âWorse Offâ Question 13: Sandy Steel: Making a Difference: Liability and Necessity Part IV Other Torts and Liabilities 14: Jonathan Morgan: Compensation as âConditional Licenceâ for Harmful Activities: An Exploration 15: John Murphy: Damage as an Essential Element in the Economic Torts 16: Jodi Gardner and Sarah Green: Continuing the Product Liability Illusion 17: Genevieve Grant and Harold Luntz: The Accident Preference, âUnrigorous Thinkingâ and Injury Compensation Schemes

Kylie Burns is a Professor in the Griffith Law School. Professor Burns has research expertise in tort law, personal injury law, accident compensation systems, the National Disability Insurance Scheme, judicial reasoning and cognition, and judicial psychological stress. She is a co-author of the leading Australian torts textbook Torts: Cases, Legislation and Commentary. She is currently a co-investigator on two Australian Research Council Discovery Projects.Jodi Gardner is the Brian Coote Chair in Private Law at the University of Auckland. Her research focuses on the relationship between the private law and social policy. Professor Gardner's research has covered topics including inequality in contract law, vulnerability in tort law, high-cost credit agreements, the impact of austerity measures, debt collection contracts, the effect of technological developments on equality and financial exclusion, and concurrent liability in tort and contract.Jonathan Morgan is Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge, Fellow and Director of Studies in Law, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His research and teaching interests cover Contract, Tort, Human Rights and Constitutional Law-including their historical, theoretical, and economic dimensions. His books include Great Debates in Tort Law (2022) and Contract Law Minimalism (2012).Sandy Steel is Professor of Law and Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford, and Lee Shau Kee's Sir Man Kam Lo Fellow in Law, Wadham College, Oxford. His research interests are in private law, particularly torts and remedies, and philosophical issues raised by the legal doctrine. His books include Proof of Causation in Tort Law (CUP, 2015), Omissions in Tort Law (OUP, forthcoming, 2024), and Great Debates in Jurisprudence (with Nick McBride, Palgrave 2018, 2nd edn).

This fascinating book achieves its goal of honouring Stapleton. In the foreword, Lord Reed, president of the UK Supreme Court, pays a personal tribute: 'The judiciary and common law owe Professor Stapleton a considerable debt. Her kind of scholarship is greatly valued by the judiciary and, as she has put it, can offer "scholars the thrilling prospect of collaborating on the real-world project of identifying and articulating the living common law".'

• Introduction: Jane Stapleton's Tort Scholarship on Three Continents Part I General Themes of Tort Law 1: Hon Susan Kiefel: Professor Jane Stapleton and her Dialogue with the Courts 2: Mark A. Geistfeld: Unifying Principles within Pluralist Tort Adjudication 3: Anita Bernstein: The Torts Scholar as Disaggregator 4: Jenny Steele and TT Arvind: Tort and Insurance as Private Law 5: Kylie Burns: Fulfilling the Promise of the Golden Thread?: Vulnerability and Australian Negligence Law Part II Negligence 6: Nicholas J McBride: The Real Gist of Negligence 7: Ellen M Bublick: Duty of Care Factors: Principle and Policy Decisions in the United States 8: Roderick Bagshaw: What is âReasonable Foreseeabilityâ? 9: Imogen Goold and Catherine Kelly: Time to Cut Ties: Reforming the Secondary Victim âControl Mechanismsâ in Pure Psychiatric Injury 10: Philip Sales: An âOpaque Conclusionary Labelâ?: Assumption of Responsibility and Pure Economic Loss Part III Causation 11: Richard W Wright: Dialogues on Causation with Stapleton 12: Gemma Turton: Causation at a Tipping Point: Material Contribution and the âWorse Offâ Question 13: Sandy Steel: Making a Difference: Liability and Necessity Part IV Other Torts and Liabilities 14: Jonathan Morgan: Compensation as âConditional Licenceâ for Harmful Activities: An Exploration 15: John Murphy: Damage as an Essential Element in the Economic Torts 16: Jodi Gardner and Sarah Green: Continuing the Product Liability Illusion 17: Genevieve Grant and Harold Luntz: The Accident Preference, âUnrigorous Thinkingâ and Injury Compensation Schemes

Kylie Burns is a Professor in the Griffith Law School. Professor Burns has research expertise in tort law, personal injury law, accident compensation systems, the National Disability Insurance Scheme, judicial reasoning and cognition, and judicial psychological stress. She is a co-author of the leading Australian torts textbook Torts: Cases, Legislation and Commentary. She is currently a co-investigator on two Australian Research Council Discovery Projects.Jodi Gardner is the Brian Coote Chair in Private Law at the University of Auckland. Her research focuses on the relationship between the private law and social policy. Professor Gardner's research has covered topics including inequality in contract law, vulnerability in tort law, high-cost credit agreements, the impact of austerity measures, debt collection contracts, the effect of technological developments on equality and financial exclusion, and concurrent liability in tort and contract.Jonathan Morgan is Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge, Fellow and Director of Studies in Law, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His research and teaching interests cover Contract, Tort, Human Rights and Constitutional Law-including their historical, theoretical, and economic dimensions. His books include Great Debates in Tort Law (2022) and Contract Law Minimalism (2012).Sandy Steel is Professor of Law and Philosophy of Law at the University of Oxford, and Lee Shau Kee's Sir Man Kam Lo Fellow in Law, Wadham College, Oxford. His research interests are in private law, particularly torts and remedies, and philosophical issues raised by the legal doctrine. His books include Proof of Causation in Tort Law (CUP, 2015), Omissions in Tort Law (OUP, forthcoming, 2024), and Great Debates in Jurisprudence (with Nick McBride, Palgrave 2018, 2nd edn).

This fascinating book achieves its goal of honouring Stapleton. In the foreword, Lord Reed, president of the UK Supreme Court, pays a personal tribute: 'The judiciary and common law owe Professor Stapleton a considerable debt. Her kind of scholarship is greatly valued by the judiciary and, as she has put it, can offer "scholars the thrilling prospect of collaborating on the real-world project of identifying and articulating the living common law".'

• Introduction: Jane Stapleton's Tort Scholarship on Three Continents Part I General Themes of Tort Law 1: Hon Susan Kiefel: Professor Jane Stapleton and her Dialogue with the Courts 2: Mark A. Geistfeld: Unifying Principles within Pluralist Tort Adjudication 3: Anita Bernstein: The Torts Scholar as Disaggregator 4: Jenny Steele and TT Arvind: Tort and Insurance as Private Law 5: Kylie Burns: Fulfilling the Promise of the Golden Thread?: Vulnerability and Australian Negligence Law Part II Negligence 6: Nicholas J McBride: The Real Gist of Negligence 7: Ellen M Bublick: Duty of Care Factors: Principle and Policy Decisions in the United States 8: Roderick Bagshaw: What is âReasonable Foreseeabilityâ? 9: Imogen Goold and Catherine Kelly: Time to Cut Ties: Reforming the Secondary Victim âControl Mechanismsâ in Pure Psychiatric Injury 10: Philip Sales: An âOpaque Conclusionary Labelâ?: Assumption of Responsibility and Pure Economic Loss Part III Causation 11: Richard W Wright: Dialogues on Causation with Stapleton 12: Gemma Turton: Causation at a Tipping Point: Material Contribution and the âWorse Offâ Question 13: Sandy Steel: Making a Difference: Liability and Necessity Part IV Other Torts and Liabilities 14: Jonathan Morgan: Compensation as âConditional Licenceâ for Harmful Activities: An Exploration 15: John Murphy: Damage as an Essential Element in the Economic Torts 16: Jodi Gardner and Sarah Green: Continuing the Product Liability Illusion 17: Genevieve Grant and Harold Luntz: The Accident Preference, âUnrigorous Thinkingâ and Injury Compensation Schemes