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Privacy erosion by design: why the Federal Court should throw the book at Google over location data tracking
Co-Director, Professor Jeannie Paterson and Professor Elise Bant discuss the possible penalties needed to deter googling following a Federal court ruling that the company misled some users.
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Choice blasts Airbnb for using ‘secretive algorithm’ that judges if users are ‘trustworthy’
Professor Jeannie Paterson and Dr Marc Cheong spoke to The New Daily about Choice findings that Airbnb is using an algorithm to decide the trustworthiness of its users.
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Andrew Robertson
Academic profile of Professor Andrew Robertson, Melbourne Law School
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Journal of Equity Conference: Equity, Charity and Governance
Online conference for Journal of Equity hosted by Obligations Group, Melbourne Law School
Study Options
Members of the Obligations Groups teach in the private law specialisation in the Melbourne Law Masters, Juris Doctor and provide high quality supervision to graduate researchers.
The Harold Ford Memorial Lecture
The Harold Ford Memorial Lecture celebrates the many contributions of Professor Ford to Melbourne Law School, the legal profession, and to the development of corporate law and trusts law. The inaugural lecture was held in 2013 and hosted by the Centre for Corporate Law. Details of upcoming lectures, and recordings of past lectures, can be found here.
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Eric Descheemaeker
Academic profile of Professor Eric Descheemaeker, Melbourne Law School
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Unconscionable conduct and the ‘bookup’ system of credit provided to the Indigenous community in the remote APY lands in South Australia: ASIC v Kobelt
Evening Lecture co-hosted with the Centre for Corporate LawSpeakers: Mr Nathan Boyle (CEO, Icon), Mr Gerard Brody (CEO, Consumer Action Law Centre), Dr Michelle Sharpe (Barrister, Vic... 10 July 2019 6:30 pm - 10 July 2019 7:45 pm
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The Hegemony of the Reasonable Person in Anglo-American Tort Law
Presented by Professor Ken Simons, University of California, USASince the middle of the twentieth century, tort law has increasingly employed the rubric of the reasonable person in a variety of doctri... 6 Mar 2019 1:00 pm - 6 Mar 2019 2:00 pm
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Benjamin Hopper
Academic profile of Mr Benjamin Hopper, Melbourne Law School
Obligations Group
The Obligations Group support research and scholarly discussion on the law of obligations, such as law of contract, tort, remedies and private law theory.
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Contractual Interpretation in English and French Law
Presented by Associate Professor Solène Rowan, Australian National UniversityContract interpretation is at the core of commercial litigation in England. Yet there has been relatively little comparativ... 7 Nov 2019 5:30 pm - 7 Nov 2019 7:00 pm
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Surveillance: What is it good for?
By Gabby Bush, Dr Simon Coghlan, Professor Jeannie Paterson and Professor Tim Miller, University of Melbourne
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Offers to Mitigate
Presented by Dr Wayne Courtney, National University of Singapore, SingaporeAfter a tort or breach of contract has occurred, the wrongdoer (or, occasionally, the victim) may propose a course of action ... 23 May 2019 1:00 pm - 23 May 2019 2:00 pm
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Australia-New Zealand Consumer Law Roundtable
Full day forum presented by 14 speakers and attended by over 40 registered attendees from across Australia and New Zealand. The roundtable was convened by Professor Elise Bant and Professor... 4 Dec 2019 - 4 Dec 2019
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Bad Bargains
Presented by Professor Paul Davies, University College London, United KingdomIt is often said that the courts will not save parties from bad bargains: as Lord Nottingham observed, even “the Chan... 25 July 2019 6:30 pm - 25 July 2019 7:30 pm
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People
View the Director, members and associates of the Obligations Group from Melbourne Law School's academic community.
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Richard Garnett
Academic profile of Professor Richard Garnett, Melbourne Law School
Consent and fairness in Australian and Indian Data Protection Law
This project explores approaches to balancing the elements of individual consent and fairness to protect citizens reasonable expectations of privacy in data driven transactions.
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Annual Reports
The Obligations Group produces an Annual Report capturing the outstanding events and research being achieved and performed by staff and students.
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- Current project
Centre for AI and Digital Ethics travel to Viet Nam for project on legal advice in cyber and critical technologies
In the last week of April, the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics’ were delighted to travel to Viet Nam for the first activities of the ‘Building Resilient Legal Advice for Cyber and Critical Technologies’ Project. This two-year project is funded under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Cyber and Critical Technologies Cooperation Program. This initiative aims to understand the challenges and opportunities for lawyers, legal experts and practitioners, legal experts, law and policy makers when addressing new technologies such as AI, ChatGPT and Cyber Security measures.The Centre for AI and Digital Ethics travel to Viet Nam to undertake work in the New Legal Thinking for Emerging Technologies program.
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Lisa Sarmas
Academic profile of Associate Professor Lisa Sarmas, Melbourne Law School
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The Transformation of Equitable Tracing
Presented by Dr Derek Whayman, Newcastle University, United KingdomTrust and fiduciary law describes and justifies tracing better that seeing it as a process supporting a property claim absent aspects... 26 Sept 2019 1:00 pm - 26 Sept 2019 2:00 pm