From:                                         Katy Barnett <k.barnett@unimelb.edu.au>

Sent:                                           Thursday 30 January 2025 01:40

To:                                               obligations@uwo.ca

Subject:                                     Fwd: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO

 

Many of you may have come across the work of Professor Harold Luntz, AO, a valued colleague at Melbourne Law School and a giant in the field of tort law and damages. 

 

I am extremely sad to report that he passed away yesterday. May his memory be a blessing. His work will live on, but he will be missed as a generous, insightful colleague with an amazing store of knowledge and kindness.

 

Kind regards,

 

Katy

 

Katy Barnett | Professor

Melbourne Law School

Level 7, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton

The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia

T: +61 3 9035 4699 E: k.barnett@unimelb.edu.au

 

SSRN | Twitter: @drkatybarnett | Postal address: Level 2, Melbourne Law School

 

Barnett and Gans, Guilty Pigs: the weird and wonderful history of animal law (Latrobe University Press, 2022)

Barnett, Damages for Breach of Contract (Sweet & Maxwell, 2022)

Out now! Third edition of Barnett and Harder, Remedies in Australia Private Law (Cambridge University Press 2024)

to accompany Barnett, Yin and Allcock, Remedies Cases and Materials in Australian Private Law (Cambridge University Press, 2023) 

 

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From: Melbourne Law School Dean <law-dean@unimelb.edu.au>
Date: 30 January 2025 at 11:54:19 am AEDT
To: Melbourne Law School Dean <law-dean@unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: VALE Professor Harold Luntz AO



Dear colleagues,

 

It is with sadness that I write to inform you that Professor Harold Luntz passed away on Wednesday 29 January.

 

Professor Luntz was a highly respected and much-loved member of the MLS community.  A global expert on torts law, from 1986 to 1988 he was Dean of the Faculty of Law. Until his retirement at the end of 2002, he held the George Paton Chair of Law. Thereafter, as an Emeritus Professor, he continued until 2008 to teach in the postgraduate program. The Harold Luntz Graduate Research Thesis Prize is named for Emeritus Professor Harold Luntz, in recognition of his many contributions to MLS.

 

Harold’s funeral is scheduled for 11am Friday January 31st (tomorrow) at MCK Cemetery, 200 Glasscocks Street, Lyndhurst.

It should also be live streamed on https://www.mck.org.au/funerals

 

I will be attending on behalf of MLS.

 

Kind regards

Michelle

 

 

Professor Michelle Foster FASSA FAAL

Dean, Melbourne Law School

William Hearn Professor of Law

The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia

T: +61 3 8344 6172   E: m.foster@unimelb.edu.au    

 

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