My Expertise
legal system; torts especially negligence; succession - wills & inheritance, especially for Indigenous people; legal aspects of death; apologies in civil liability;
Keywords
Fields of Research (FoR)
Property law (excl. intellectual property law), Tort law, Legal systems, Legal education, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander customary lawSEO tags
Biography
Prue Vines is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, UNSW, Sydney and I have been a member of the Law Faculty since 1990.
My major areas of interest are torts ( especially attribution of responsibility in negligence and apologies in civil liability) and succession law. (wills and estates - in which I am especially interested in the making of culturally appropriate wills for Indigenous people.) I have been the co-Director of the Private Law...view more
Prue Vines is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, UNSW, Sydney and I have been a member of the Law Faculty since 1990.
My major areas of interest are torts ( especially attribution of responsibility in negligence and apologies in civil liability) and succession law. (wills and estates - in which I am especially interested in the making of culturally appropriate wills for Indigenous people.) I have been the co-Director of the Private Law Research and Policy Group at UNSW. Other interests and publications are in the areas of legal system, statutory interpretaion and unexpected consequences of compensation law. I am happy to entertain questions about supervision of Ph D's in these areas.
My Qualifications
BA, MA, Dip Ed, LLB
My Awards
Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award 2002
My Research Activities
Torts - apologies in the legal system; the duty of care in negligence, unexpected consequences of compensation law.
Succession: informal wills, Issues in inheritance for Indigenous people in Australia.
Legal Education
Legal system
My Research Supervision
Supervision keywords
Areas of supervision
Torts, succession, legal system topics.
Currently supervising
Martin Hill, Ph D : statutory interpretation
My Teaching
I teach the following subjects in the LLB and JD programs:
Introducing Law and Justice
Torts
Succession
Older People and the Law
And in the M(Forensic) Psychology program:
Law for Psychologists 1
Location
The Law Building
University of New South Wales
UNSW Kensington Campus
Sydney NSW 2052
Australia
(Access via Gate 2 off High Street)
Contact
Publications
ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0458-6091