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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. Professor Robertson’s teaching and research interests are in the law and theory of obligations and remedies. He has written on many issues in private law, mostly involving aspects of contract law, equitable estoppel and remedies. He is co-author of Principles of Contract Law (3rd ed, 2009) and Contract: Cases and Materials (11th ed, 2009) and has edited two collections of essays on private law theory: The Law of Obligations: Connections and Boundaries (UCL Press, 2004) and The Goals of Private Law (Hart Publishing, 2009). Professor Robertson’s current research project on Policy-Based Reasoning in Private Law is funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant.

Representative Publications

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

‘The Death of Proprietary Estoppel (Yeoman’s Row v Cobbe)’ [2008] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 449-460 (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, 2009) 199-224

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

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