主题：Legal categories and the different remedies in consumer protection law: contract, tort and statute/code compared
主讲人：Mark Lunney Professor in the School of Law at the University of New England
主持人：商舒 上海财经大学法学院讲师
时间：2013年9月26日（周四）18:30
地点：武东路校区梯八教室
Abstract
By reference to a number of examples, the lecture will examine the remedies that are available to a consumer in respect of unsafe or poor quality products under Australian law. It will compare the various actions available against the seller and the manufacturer of the product under the legal categories of contract, tort and statute/code. It will also explain whether the liabilities are based on fault or are strict (without fault). Where appropriate, some comparisons will be made to Chinese law.
Speaker
Mark Lunney is a Professor in the School of Law at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. He trained as a solicitor in Brisbane before obtaining an LLM from the University of Cambridge. Between 1991-2003 he was lecturer, senior lecturer and reader at the School of Law, Kings College London. He was an Associate Professor in the School of Law at the University of New England between 2003-2011 and from 2011-2012 he was Professor and Director of Research in the ANU College of Law. His research interests are the law of tort, and the history of the common law and legal profession. He currently holds an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant for his project on ‘The history of tort law in Australia 1901-1945’, and he has published extensively on the law of torts in both Australia and the United Kingdom (see, for example, Barker, Cane, Lunney & Trindade, The Law of Torts in Australia (5th edn, 2012) and Lunney & Oliphant, Tort Law: Text and Materials (5th edn, 2013). He is also a contributing editor to the practitioners’ reference work Tort Law (2nd edn, 2007, Butterworths Common Law Series).
