My friend managed to get genuine bits of foyer - Canberra York gray granite and San Fransisco green granite - from the case of Tabcorp Holdings Ltd v Bowen Investments Pty Ltd [2009] HCA 8, (2009) 236 CLR 272. No wonder Mrs Bergamin was so shocked and dismayed.

Don't get me wrong. I still love my job. Despite all...

New📚Private Law Remedies @drkatybarnett.bsky.social, University of Melbourne Sirko Harder, University of Sussex Available 👉 www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97... Read a #free sample 👉 doi.org/10.4337/9781... #Remedies #Damages #CommonLaw #PrivateLaw #CommercialLaw #Compensation

Hurrah! Hard copy of Private Law Remedies received!

Sirko Harder and I have a new book, “Private Law Remedies” (published today by Edward Elgar Publishing) this time focusing on English law. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/pri...

Really happy to get my copy of this excellent collection of essays, to which I contributed a chapter called ‘The Policy Behind Contract Damages: Beyond Voluntary Assumption of a Risk or Gap Filling’. Thanks to the excellent editors. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/politics-...

Awesome trip to Boston to present at Harvard for Obligations XI on “How the Institutional Revolution Shaped Common Law Remedies for Breach of Contract”. Great to see old friends and meet new ones. Now home safely.

Extremely proud of the book chapter I co-authored with @markbennettnz on Asset Protection Trusts in the Cook Islands, in which we undertook empirical research on the topic. It’s a chapter in this newly released book, which I commend to you. www.bloomsbury.com/au/asiapacif...

For those of you who are interested in negotiating damages and the like, I was on Chris Patterson’s Law Down Under podcast: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-sg6qq-...

A post by me on the recent English Court of Appeal decision in King Crude.

I imagine, with little corellas, that I can see what some dinosaurs might have looked like. Weird goggle eyed little dinos.

I just came up with an excellent collective noun: “She discovered she had an embarrassment of adoring swains.” (Not speaking about myself personally, I should hasten to add…)

An obituary for Professor Harold Luntz AO www.whatkatydid.net/p/vale-profe...

Very pleased to be published in the latest issue of the Contract and Commercial Law Review #contractlaw #internationallaw

Character sketches for ‘The Hidden People’ www.whatkatydid.net/p/the-hidden...

If I wrote a sitcom of my life, no one would believe it. In my fiction, I wrote a dirge, sung by a eunuch in a totally made up funeral rite. Someone emailed my co-collaborator and I to say that they really loved the dirge and actually used it in a real funeral.

I have written a case and comment on the recent decision of the English Court of Appeal, King Crude Carriers v Ridgebury November, in (2025) 2 CCLR 164. Abstract explains the context.

Here is my casenote on Cessnock City Council v 123 259 932 Pty Ltd [2024] HCA 17, on wasted expenditure and reliance damages, in the Cambridge Law Journal - open access. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I love the way sulphur crested cockatoos are so dexterous with their claws.

In the morning light, fine threads glisten. Tiny spiders have joined the cumquat tree with the rosemary. Back and forth, the garden chairs are knit with tens of shining strands. One tiny spider dared to leap from the washing line to the sage bush. A leap of faith, weaving the world together.

Presented at National University of Singapore on bailment - bonus pictures of chicken crossing road, and temple across the road from our hotel.

Eastern Rosella in our garden.

‘Guilty Pigs: the weird and wonderful history of animal law’, my book with Jeremy Gans, has now been translated to Mandarin and published! www.cp.com.cn/book/2043c2b...

Nevada Commissioner rules that Rupert Murdoch fails in his bid to amend his irrevocable family trust: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/b...

A post on guilt and apologies, with bonus thoughts on Socrates, Yom Kippur, Struggle Sessions and Kafka. www.whatkatydid.net/p/guilt-and-...

Want to see my ‘Rare Books Lecture’ on the Weird and Wonderful World of Animals and the Law? Here it is! Complete with lecture notes and slides. law.unimelb.edu.au/law-library/...

Check this out: @Elgar_Law has opened the entire Encyclopedia for a limited time, allowing you to discover more about this indespensable comparative law resource. www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

More legal scholars coming: Eoin Daly is now also here: @eoinmauricedaly.bsky.social

This was me yesterday, giving a lecture on ‘The Weird and Wonderful World of Animals and the Law’: discussion of Isbester v Knox CC, pig trials, octopus selfies, and disputed dogs.

Katy Barnett is now also here. Welcome! @drkatybarnett.bsky.social

Well, let’s see if I do better on this than with Mastodon, which I never worked out…