Justice James Edelman will present a brown bag lunchtime seminar at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law, Wednesday, July 17 at 12 noon. The title of his talk will be 'The role of status and office in the law of obligations and in fiduciary duties'.
The paper considers a fundamental issue in the law of obligations, particularly in relation to contract law and fiduciary law. The issue is the role of status. The areas in which the effect of status, or office, are considered, are in relation to implied terms in contract law, common callings, and fiduciary duties. The argument is that we must reject the common assumption that status is the source of particular duties or particular implications. We must also reject the argument that these duties and implications arise as a matter of policy.
James Joshua Edelman was appointed to the Supreme Court of Western Australia on 25 July 2011. He obtained his degrees of Bachelor of Economics (1995), Bachelor of Laws (first class honours 1996) from the University of Western Australia, a Bachelor of Commerce from Murdoch University (1997). He was Associate to his Honour Justice Toohey, of the High Court of Australia, in 1997 and completed his articles with Blake Dawson Waldron. He was admitted to practice in Western Australia in 1998.
Justice Edelman was awarded a Rhodes scholarship in 1998 and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Law (2001) from the University of Oxford. Justice Edelman took up a teaching position at Keble College, Oxford University in 2005, and was appointed Professor of the Law of Obligations at Oxford (2008). At Oxford he taught the subjects of restitution, commercial remedies, trusts, torts, contract and Roman law.
He practised as a barrister at the Chambers of Mr Malcolm McCusker Q.C. in Perth from 2001, and at One Essex Court at the English Bar from 2008.
He has written or edited books on damages, unjust enrichment interest awards, equity, and torts.
Talk details:
Justice James Edelman will give a talk at the UAlberta Faculty of Law, on
'The role of status and office in the law of obligations and in fiduciary duties'
Wednesday, July 17, 2013, from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm
Room W 3-12 (third floor), Law Centre,
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta
Please RSVP to Katherine Thompson, Communications & Events Coordinator, at lawcomm@ualberta.ca
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