The programme for the Fifth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations

(Obligations V) has now been finalised, and can be viewed on the conference

website at http://www.law.ox.ac.uk/obligations/. Registration for the

conference is also now open, via the website. The conference will be held at

St Anne¹s College, Oxford from 14-16 July 2010 and is being co-hosted by the

University of Oxford Faculty of Law and Melbourne Law School.

 

The biennial Obligations conferences bring together scholars, practitioners

and judges from common law countries to discuss issues in contract, tort,

equity and restitution. Obligations V will be a 3-day conference on ŒRights

and Private Law¹, a theme that encompasses both the relationship between

private law and human rights and the debate between rights-based and non

rights-based accounts of private law and particular private law doctrines.

The conference will feature presentations by many leading private law

scholars from across the common law world addressing issues in private law

theory, tort law, contract law, unjust enrichment, equity and trusts,

remedies and property.

 

St Anne's College is situated close to the centre of the beautiful

university city of Oxford. All the academic sessions of the conference will

take place in St Anne's, and accommodation for delegates is available in the

College.  The conference social programme includes a drinks reception in the

medieval Divinity School and a formal dinner in the seventeenth-century Hall

of Exeter College.

 

Because of the physical constraints of the conference venue the number of

registrations we can accept is strictly limited. It is quite possible that

the conference will be fully subscribed and so we would strongly encourage

those who wish to attend to register as soon as possible. An early-bird

discount is available until 14 April 2010, when the registration fee will

rise by £50.

 

Best wishes,

Donal Nolan and Andrew Robertson

Conference convenors