From: Lucas
Clover Alcolea <lucas.cloveralcolea@monash.edu>
Sent: Thursday
30 July 2026 06:29
To: obligations
Subject: Re:
Registration now open- 'Private law and the courts in an age of disruption:
Bending, breaking or restating?' - 29-30 October 2026
Attachments: Conference
Program (final draft).pdf
Dear
all,
Hope
you are well.
Registration
is now open for the conference (which has been extended to 1.5 days) at the
following link https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/private-law-and-the-courts-in-an-age-of-disruption-tickets-1991652629629?aff=oddtdtcreator.
Registration is free, but spaces are limited. Note that, in principle, the
event is an in-person one, with some limited exceptions, so this is probably
more relevant for those in Australasia and the broader Asia-Pacific, as well as
those who really want a trip 'Down Under'. I also attach a copy of the
final draft programme, assuming the listserv allows attachments.
If
you have any questions, or would like further information about the event,
please don't hesitate to contact Brandon D Stewart or me.
All
the best,
Lucas
Lucas Clover Alcolea
Lecturer
E: lucas.cloveralcolea@monash.edu
W: https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/lucas-clover-alcolea
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lcloveralcolea/
On
Tue, 10 Mar 2026 at 13:49, <lucas.cloveralcolea@monash.edu>
wrote:
Dear all,
Hope you are well.
With the moderator's permission I am (together with Brandon D Stewart) pleased to share the call for papers for an upcoming one day private law conference at Monash University on Friday 30 October entitled 'Private law and the courts in an age of disruption: Bending, breaking or restating?'. We are honoured to announce that the keynote speech will be delivered by The Honourable Justice Mark Leeming, Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. A selection of papers, which will be peer reviewed, will be published in a special issue of the Monash University Law Review. As I'm not sure whether attachments can or can't be sent round the listserv I've pasted the full call below. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact either Brandon or myself. As an aside, the conference is an in-person one, and we would therefore generally expect papers to be delivered in person.
Call for Papers
Private law and the courts in an age of disruption: Bending, breaking or restating?
Monash University Faculty of Law
30 October 2026
We invite submissions for a one-day conference on the theme of 'Private law and the courts in an age of disruption: Bending, breaking, or restating?,' to be held on Friday, 30 October 2026 at the Monash Convention Centre in Melbourne, Victoria. The keynote address will be given by The Honourable Justice Mark Leeming, Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales. A selection of papers will be published in a special issue of the Monash University Law Review.
Conference Theme
Private law has long presented itself as a domain of incremental development, doctrinal coherence, and principled reasoning. Yet contemporary pressures, including digital platforms and AI, climate change, mass harm events, financial innovation, and shifting conceptions of property, personhood, and responsibility, raise profound questions about the stability and adaptability of private law's core concepts and doctrines.
We welcome papers that use diverse methodologies and/or approaches to address any topic related to the conference theme, such as:
- challenges to private law's theoretical foundations;
- the role of courts, whether appellate or first instance, in doctrinal development;
- disruptions in contract law (including digital contracting and smart contracts);
- tort law s role in addressing harms caused by climate change and emerging technologies;
- property law and digital or intangible assets;
- the application of equitable and fiduciary doctrine to complex and novel settings;
- remedies and the recalibration or restatement of private law's responses to wrongs; and
- comparative or transnational perspectives on doctrinal change
Submission Details
Please submit an abstract of up to 300 words to Dr. Lucas Clover Alcolea (lucas.cloveralcolea@monash.edu) and Dr. Brandon D. Stewart (brandon.stewart@monash.edu) by 11:59pm AEST on 15 May 2026. Selected authors will be notified by 1 June 2026. Draft papers will be due by 15 October 2026 and will be circulated to presenters and attendees to facilitate discussion. For those that wish to be considered for publication in the special issue, which will be peer reviewed, revised papers will be due in early 2027. We will provide further details about that process in due course.
For further information, please contact the conference co-convenors.
All the best,
Lucas
Lucas Clover Alcolea
Lecturer
E: lucas.cloveralcolea@monash.edu
W: https://research.monash.edu/en/persons/lucas-clover-alcoleahttps://www.linkedin.com/in/lcloveralcolea/
