Dear Colleagues:

Congratulations go out to Kit Barker and Darryn Jensen on the publication of their new edited collection: Private Law: Key Encounters with Public Law (Cambridge, CUP, 2013). Details can be found at:

http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/law/constitutional-and-administrative-law/private-law-key-encounters-public-law#contentsTabAnchor

 
Contributors include: Kit Barker, William Lucy, Alexander Williams, Steve Hedley, Christian Turner, Matthew Harding, Adam Parachin, Michelle Flaherty, Alastair Hudson, Anita Krug, Dan Priel, Jeff Berryman and Robyn Carroll.

From the Preface: The relationship between private and public law has long been the focus of critical attention, but recent years have seen the intensification of a significant number of ‘public’ pressures on private law. These have taken the form of the growing influences of statutory intervention, public regulation, corporate globalisation, class actions and constitutional and international human rights norms. Such developments increasingly call into question the capacity of private law to operate in isolation from public law, public institutions and public goals. They invite a critical re-examination of the ways in which private and public law and the values and aims underpinning these fields relate to each other. This collection makes a significant contribution to the current debate. It examines a number of key encounters between private law and public law and their respective value sets in the fields of charity law, property law, commercial law, tort law, human rights and the law of private law remedies (in particular remedies available in class actions). It also addresses important theoretical, definitional and taxonomic debates that influence the way in which these interactions may be understood and resolved. It includes essays from leading private law scholars and theorists drawn from several different jurisdictions in which these debates are increasingly prominent and important, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and the United States of America.

 
Sincerely,

-- Jason Neyers Professor of Law Faculty of Law Western University N6A 3K7 (519) 661-2111 x. 88435