The Fifth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations will be held at the

University of Oxford from 14-16 July 2010 and will be co-hosted by the

University of Oxford and the University of Melbourne. The theme of the

conference is 'Rights and Private Law'. Scholars working in the fields of

contract, tort, unjust enrichment, equity or private law theory are invited

to submit proposals for papers addressing the conference theme. The theme is

intended to encompass both:

(a) the relationship between private law and human rights; and

(b) the debate between rights-based and non rights-based accounts of private

law and particular private law doctrines.

Presenters whose offers of papers are accepted will be expected to meet

their own travel and accommodation costs and to pay a discounted

registration fee of £100. The conference will be held at St Anne's College

and accommodation in the College will be available at a rate of

approximately £80 a night.

If you would like to offer a paper, please submit a working title and an

abstract (of no more than 350 words) by email to Ms Mardi Richardson

<mardi.richardson@unimelb.edu.au> before 1 October. Papers will be selected

on the basis of engagement with the conference theme and fit with other

papers being presented at the conference, as well as quality and

originality.

Donal Nolan and Andrew Robertson

Conference convenors