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Dr Christine Beuermann

Lecturer -

Anon

Contact Details

Contact Campus Sandy Bay Campus
Building Faculty of Law Building
Room Reference 3.06
Telephone +61 3 6226 7564
Fax +61 3 6226 7623
Email Christine.Beuermann@utas.edu.au

Publications

  • 'Vicarious Liability and Conferred Authority Strict Liability' (2013) 20 Torts Law Journal 265.
  • 'Dissociating the Two Forms of so-called 'Vicarious Liability' in Erika Chamberlain, Jason Neyers and Stephen Pitel (eds), Challenging Orthodoxy in Tort Law (forthcoming, Hart Publishing 2013)
  • 'In Defence of the Non-Delegable Duty of Care'  (Paper presented at Obligations V  Rights and Private Law, Oxford, July 2010)

Achievements

Christine graduated from Griffith University with a Bachelor of Commerce and a first class honours degree in Law. Before going into academia, she practised law at Blake Dawson in Brisbane (now Ashursts) and Slaughter and May in London, specialising in mergers and acquisitions.  

Christine now teaches and researches in the law of private obligations. She was awarded a BCL with first class honours at Oxford University in 1998 (after being awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship) and completed her PhD at ANU under the supervision of Professors Jane Stapleton and Peter Cane in 2012. Christine's PhD thesis was titled 'Strict liability for the wrongdoing of another in tort'.

Units Taught

LAW252 Foundations of Private Law

LAW251 Contract Law

LAW256 Torts

LAW454 Remedies

LAW684 Conflicts (Private International Law)