The Great Fusion Debate: law conference

15 December 2004

The Faculty of Law is hosting an international conference this week on the interaction of common law and equity in commercial law.

The Fusion conference will bring together the world's finest equity minds to debate the major contemporary issues in commercial equity. Topics include tracing, unjust enrichment, the duties of company directors, choice of law in private international law and equity, principles of the law of trusts, punitive damages in equity, and equity and contract.

"This is a unique opportunity for the legal profession to hear the latest thinking on this controversial area of law from leading barristers, judges and academics from Australia, England, Ireland, Canada and New Zealand," said the conference convenors Dr Simone Degeling of the UNSW Faculty of Law and Dr James Edelman of the University of Western Australia.

Speakers include Justices Gummow and Heydon of the High Court of Australia; Sir Anthony Mason; Justice Mason, President of the NSW Court of Appeal; Justice Young, Chief Judge in Equity in the NSW Supreme Court; Lord Millett of the House of Lords; Professor Andrew Burrows of Oxford University; Professor David Hayton of the University of London; Professor Smith of McGill University and Professor Worthington from the London School of Economics.

The conference is sponsored by The Australian Financial Review, Blake Dawson Waldron, Freehills and Mallesons Stephen Jaques.

What: Fusion: The Interaction of Common Law and Equity in Commercial Law
When: 16-18 December 2004
Where: Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney

The full conference program and complete list of speakers is available at the Fusion website.