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jurisprudence

law of torts

 Select publications 

• 'Causation and Industrial Disease', 161 New Law Journal, 2011, 835 

• 'Statutory Duties and Negligence', 160 New Law Journal 2010, 1658 

• 'The Tort of Malicious Falsehood', 160 New Law Journal, 2010, 1107 

• 'Public Authorities and the Duty of Care', 97 Precedent, 2010, 10 

• 'Remedies for Trespass', 160 New Law Journal, 2010, 642 

• ' Liability for the Acts of the Subcontractor', 159 New Law Journal, 2009, 1349 

• ‘Rights in the Human Body’, UNE Law Journal, 2009, 3 

• 'The Statutory Tort of Harassment' 13 Mountbatten Journal of Legal Studies, 2009, 149 

• ‘Ex Turpi Causa Non Oritur Actio’, 159 New Law Journal, 2009, 1200 

• ‘Protection from Oneself', 159 New Law Journal, 2009, 949 

• ‘The Standard of Care in Negligence’, 83 Australian Law Journal, 2009, 599 

• ‘Consecutive Causes in Negligence’, 159 New Law Journal, 2009, 854 

• ‘Common Law and a Duty to Warn’, 159 New Law Journal, 2009, 623 

• Oxford Dictionary of Australian Law, Oxford Press, 2009,  Common Law, Jurisprudence and Torts 

• ‘Public Bodies and the Common Law Duty of Care’, 158 New Law Journal, 2008, 1643    

• ‘Wrongful Life Goes Down Down-Under’, 123 Law Quarterly Review, 2007, 209 

• ‘Wrongful Life and Social Justice’, 4 UNE Law Journal, 2007, 35 

• ‘Public Liability for Negligently-Inflicted Economic Loss’, 80 Australian Law Journal, 2006, 241 

• 'Proximity and the Duty of Care in  Negligence Law’  4 Notre Dame Law Review, 2002, 145

• ‘Assumption of Responsibility and Economic Loss ’, 73  Australian Law Journal , 1999, 904 

• ‘Legal Reasoning, Drift, Drive and the Rule in Rylands v Fletcher’, 43 Juridical Review, 1998, 201

• ‘New Developments in the Duty of Care in Negligence’, 14 Law in Context, 1996, 35 

• ‘Changing Fact Formation in Legal Rule Structures’, 40 American Journal of Jurisprudence, 1995, 347 

• ‘Judicial Reasoning and Precedent: Negligently-inflicted Psychological Injuries’, 10 Legal Studies, 1990, 63 

• ‘Law, Power and Authority:  the Jurisprudence of John Austin’, 6 Law in Context, 1988, 45  

• ‘Trouble-cases and Socio-Legal Processes’, 32 American Journal of Jurisprudence, 1987, 171 

• ‘Analytical Positivism : Where Does ‘Content-independence’ Leave Us?’ 32 Juridical Review, 1987, 136 

• ‘Concept of Legal Obligation and the Separation of Law and Morality ’,30 Juridical Review, 1985, 69 

•  ‘The Treatment of Conflict in a Positivist Model’, 27 American Journal of Jurisprudence, 1982, 139