公告 | 四川大学法学院2018年暑期English Tort Law课程安排

教学内容

·    Introduction To Tort

·   The Institutional And Legal Background 

·   Introduction To Negligence

·   Duty In Law: General

·   Duty In Law: Pure Economic Loss

·   Duty In Law: Omissions

·   Fault

·   Damage

·   Factual Causation

·   Wrongful Conception

·   Private Nuisance

·   The Rule In Rylands V Fletcher

·   Product Liability

·   Damages For Personal Injury

·   Damages For Death

·   Tort Reform

·   Tort Law As A Regulatory Mechanism

      授课时间      

2018年7月16号至19号(周一至周四)第1-4节(8:15—11:30) 

      授课地点      

四川大学江安校区一教A座218 

      主持人      

Prof. Zhu WANG, Sichuan University. 

      主讲人      

Prof. Donal Nolan, University of Oxford.

Donal Nolan is Professor of Private Law in the University of Oxford and Francis Reynolds and Clarendon Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford (BA and BCL) and was previously a Lecturer in Law at King's College London. He has taught tort, contract, international trade law, restitution and commercial law, and has been a Visiting Professor in the Universities of Florida and Trento. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne, and a member of the International Advisory Panel for the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law Fourth, Property. He is also one of the articles editors of the Modern Law Review. He is a Member of the World Tort Law Society (WTLS).

Donal's research is focused primarily on the law of tort, and in particular on the law of negligence, the law of private nuisance and the interface between tort law and public law. He is currently undertaking an empirical analysis of the operation of the contributory negligence doctrine with Dr James Goudkamp. He has also written on a range of topics in contract law, including offer and acceptance, estoppel and termination for breach of contract. Recent publications include: 'Contributory Negligence in the Court of Appeal: An Empirical Study' (2017) 37 Legal Studies 437 (with James Goudkamp); 'A Public Law Tort: Understanding Misfeasance in Public Office' in Barker et al (eds), Private Law and Power (Hart Publishing, 2017); 'Rights, Damage and Loss' (2017) 37 OJLS 255; 'Contributory Negligence in the Twenty-First Century: An Empirical Study' (2016) 79 MLR 575 (with James Goudkamp); and 'Preventive Damages' (2016) 132 LQR 68.

Donal is a co-author of Lunney, Nolan and Oliphant, Tort Law: Text and Materials (OUP, 6th edn, 2017), and a contributor to Burrows (ed), Principles of the English Law of Obligations (OUP, 2015); Oliphant (ed), The Law of Tort (LexisNexis Butterworths, 3rd edn, 2015); Sappideen and Vines (eds), Fleming's The Law of Torts (Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia, 10th edn, 2011); and Bridge (ed), Benjamin's Sale of Goods (Sweet & Maxwell, 10th edn, 2017) . He is also the co-editor of Rights and Private Law (Hart Publishing, 2012) and of OSCOLA, the Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities.