Professor Andrew Robertson

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LLM(Hons)(QUT) PhD(ANU), Solicitor Queensland, England and Wales and High Court of Australia
Andrew Robertson joined Melbourne Law School in 1999 and was appointed to a chair in 2006. His teaching and research interests are in the law and theory of obligations and remedies. He has written on many areas of private law, including issues in contract law, equitable estoppel, negligence and remedies. He is co-author (with J Paterson and A Duke) of Principles of Contract Law (4th ed, 2012) and Contract: Cases and Materials (12th ed, 2012), and has edited three collections of essays on private law theory: The Law of Obligations: Connections and Boundaries (2004), The Goals of Private Law (with HW Tang, 2009) and Rights and Private Law (with D Nolan, 2011). His work on the remoteness rule in contract was discussed by the House of Lords in The Achilleas [2009] 1 AC 61 and his work on equitable estoppel has been cited and discussed by many appellate courts, including the High Court of Australia. HIs current research project on Policy-Based Reasoning in Private Law is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant. 

Representative Publications

'Justice, Community Welfare and the Duty of Care' (2011) 127 Law Quarterly Review 370-395

'Rights, Pluralism and the Duty of Care' in D Nolan and A Robertson, Rights and Private Law (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2011) 435-458

'Unconscionability and Proprietary Estoppel Remedies' in E Bant and M Harding (eds), Exploring Private Law (CUP, Cambridge, 2010) 402-426

'Apocalypse Averted: Proprietary Estoppel in the House of Lords' (2009) 125 Law Quarterly Review 535-542 (with Ben McFarlane)

'Constraints on Policy-Based Reasoning in Private Law’ in A Robertson and HW Tang (eds), The Goals of Private Law (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2009) 261-280

'Estoppels and Rights-Creating Events: Beyond Wrongs and Promises', in J Neyers et al (eds), Exploring Contract Law (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2009) 199-224

'The Basis of the Remoteness Rule in Contract' (2008) 28 Legal Studies 172-196

'The Reliance Basis of Proprietary Estoppel Remedies' (2008) 72 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 295-321

‘The Death of Proprietary Estoppel (Yeoman’s Row v Cobbe)’ [2008] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 449-460 (with Ben McFarlane)
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