Private Law and Power

Kit Barker is Professor of Private Law, Karen Fairweather is an Associate Lecturer and Ross Grantham is Professor of Commercial Law, all at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland.Simone Degeling is Professor of Law at UNSW Australia.

• Part 1: Issues1. The Dynamics of Private Law and Power Kit Barker Part 2: Power, History and Society2. Power, History and the Law of Contract in Eighteenth Century England Warren Swain3. Redressing Inequality in Personal Credit Transactions: 1700–1974 Karen Fairweather4. Tort Law and Government Liability in the Administrative State Peter CanePart 3: Doctrines, Institutions and Process5. Property and Power: The Judicial Redistribution of Proprietary Rights Craig Rotherham6. Trustees’ Powers and Social Justice Matthew Harding7. Undue Infl uence and the Spiritual Economy Simone Degeling8. A Public Law Tort: Understanding Misfeasance in Public Office Donal Nolan9. Public Power, Discretion and the Duty of Care Kit Barker10. The Legitimacy of the Company as a Source of (Private) Power Ross Grantham11. Reshaping Responsibility: The Emerging Private Law of Institutional Wrongs Mayo Moran12. Class Actions: Uses and Abuses of the Process of Courts Justice Philip McMurdo