From: Andrew Robertson <a.robertson@unimelb.edu.au>

Sent: Friday 28 March 2025 03:53

To: ODG

Subject: Obligations XI conference open for registration

The Eleventh Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations, which will be held at will be held at Harvard Law School from July 8-11, 2025 is now open for registration. The conference will be co-hosted by Harvard Law School and Melbourne Law School, and will be co-convened by John Goldberg, Andrew Robertson and Henry Smith.

More than 100 papers are scheduled to be presented in parallel sessions at the conference, along with four plenary presentations and three plenary panel discussions. Details of papers and panels are provided on the conference website.

Harvard Law School has set aside furnished on-campus accommodation in North Hall at conference rates for attendees of Obligations XI. North Hall is located a few minutes walk from the conference venue and will be the most convenient and competitively priced accommodation for those attending the conference. Rooms in North Hall will be available for booking until May 15, 2025 or until capacity is reached. We encourage early bookings, especially as demand generally for accommodation in Cambridge is high during summer.

The biennial Obligations Conferences bring together scholars and practicing lawyers from across and beyond the common law world to discuss current issues in private law. Obligations XI will be the first conference in the Obligations series to be held in the United States. The conference theme is intended to provoke discussion about the inside and outside of private law. The conference will focus on the contrast between 'internalist' and 'externalist' perspectives on the law in this field. It will also consider the boundaries and relationships between private law and morality, private law and economic efficiency, and private law and other policy goals. A central aspiration of this iteration of Obligations is to give private law scholars working in different intellectual traditions an opportunity to identify previously underappreciated overlaps and synergies, and thereby help to break down methodological barriers to an improved understanding of the field.