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Professor Prue Vines
BA, MA, Dip Ed, LLB
Prue Vines is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø, Sydney andÌýI have been a member of the Law Faculty since 1990.
My major areas of interest are torts ( especially attribution of responsibility in negligence and apologies in civil liability) and succession law. (wills and estates - in which I am especially interested in the making of culturally appropriate wills for Indigenous people.)Ìý I have been the co-Director of the Private Law Research and Policy Group at ÁñÁ«¹ÙÍø. Other interests and publications are in the areas of legal system, statutory interpretaion and unexpected consequences of compensation law.Ìý I am happy to entertain questions about supervision of Ph D's in these areas.Ìý
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- Teaching and Supervision
Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award 2002
Torts - apologies in the legal system; the duty of care in negligence, unexpected consequences of compensation law.
Succession: informal wills, Issues in inheritance for Indigenous people in Australia.
Legal Education
Legal system
My Research Supervision
Martin Hill, Ph D :Ìý statutory interpretation
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My Teaching
ÌýI teach the following subjects in the LLB and JD programs:
Ìý Ìý Introducing Law and Justice
Ìý Ìý Torts
Ìý Ìý Succession
Ìý Ìý Older People and the Law
And in the M(Forensic) Psychology program:
Ìý Ìý Law for Psychologists 1
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