Professor Prue Vines
BA, MA, Dip Ed, LLB
Prue Vines is a Professor at the Faculty of Law, UNSW, Sydney and I 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.) I have been the co-Director of the Private Law Research and Policy Group at UNSW. Other interests and publications are in the areas of legal system, statutory interpretaion and unexpected consequences of compensation law. I am happy to entertain questions about supervision of Ph D's in these areas.
- Publications
- Media
- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- 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 : statutory interpretation
My Teaching
I teach the following subjects in the LLB and JD programs:
Introducing Law and Justice
Torts
Succession
Older People and the Law
And in the M(Forensic) Psychology program:
Law for Psychologists 1