Overview
Background
Iain is a Senior Lecturer in the TC Beirne School of Law and an Honorary Associate Professor at Bond University. His primary research and teaching interests lie in the area of tort law, with an emphasis on defences and damages. Iain's most recent work focusses on claimant accountability and consent in tort law, the nature of the compensatory principle, the relationship between remedial rules and rules of liability, and (more broadly) the intersection of public and private law and statutory interventions. Iain's earlier work examined statutory good faith protections in tort law and their connection with underlying theories of vicarious liability, and bereavement damages.
Iain’s work has been accepted for publication in leading law journals, including the Cambridge Law Journal, Modern Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Melbourne University Law Review, University of New South Wales Law Journal and Sydney Law Review. He has also co-authored articles with senior members of the judiciary and the academy and presented at both domestic and international legal conferences.
Iain was the recipient of a 2022 Australian Legal Research Award, in the category Article/Chapter (General), for his article 'The Problem with Provocation in Trespass' (Modern Law Review). He also recieved the 2017 Faculty of Law Emerging Research Excellence Award (Bond) for his work on Good Faith Defences.
Iain was also awarded the 2018 Law Students’ Association Teaching Award (Bond) and the 2015 Stanley Shaw Bond Prize for Teaching Excellence (Bond).
Iain is an editor of the University of Queensland Law Journal and editorial board member of the Torts Law Journal. He was the general editor of the Bond Law Review from 2015–2019.
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Works
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Featured
2020
Journal Article
The problem with provocation in trespass
Field, Iain (2020). The problem with provocation in trespass. Modern Law Review, 84 (2) 1468-2230.12582, 297-333. doi: 10.1111/1468-2230.12582
Featured
2018
Journal Article
Contributory negligence and the rule of avoidable losses
Field, Iain D. (2018). Contributory negligence and the rule of avoidable losses. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 38 (3), 475-499. doi: 10.1093/OJLS/GQY007
Featured
2016
Journal Article
Good faith defences in tort law
Field, Iain (2016). Good faith defences in tort law. Sydney Law Review, 38 (2), 147-178.
2025
Journal Article
‘Consent’ and Trespass to the Person: Denial of Liability or Defence? (forthcoming)
Dietrich, Joachim and Field, Iain (2025). ‘Consent’ and Trespass to the Person: Denial of Liability or Defence? (forthcoming). Melbourne University Law Review.
2024
Conference Publication
Variation on a (Bad) Theme: An Australian Perspective on the Fearn Decision
Field, Iain (2024). Variation on a (Bad) Theme: An Australian Perspective on the Fearn Decision. From Victoria Park to Tate Gallery, Cave Hill, Barbados, 23-24 February 2024.
2024
Journal Article
The actual loss illusion
Fell, Andrew and Field, Iain (2024). The actual loss illusion. The Cambridge Law Journal (forthcoming).
2023
Book Chapter
Rookes v Barnard (1964): 'Going off the Lines'
Field, Iain (2023). Rookes v Barnard (1964): 'Going off the Lines'. Landmark cases in the law of punitive damages. (pp. 49-73) edited by James Goudkamp and Eleni Katsampouka. Oxford, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury Academic.
2023
Journal Article
Contributory negligence in the twenty-first century, by James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan
Field, Iain (2023). Contributory negligence in the twenty-first century, by James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan. Journal of Professional Negligence, 38 (1), 58-62.
2023
Book Chapter
Rookes v Barnard (1964): ‘Going Off the Lines’
Field, Iain (2023). Rookes v Barnard (1964): ‘Going Off the Lines’. Landmark Cases in the Law of Punitive Damages. (pp. 49-74) Bloomsbury Publishing Plc..
2019
Conference Publication
Statute and theories of vicarious liability
Dietrich, Joachim and Field, Iain (2019). Statute and theories of vicarious liability. Colloquium on Intersections in Private Law, University of Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia, 16-17 August 2019.
2019
Conference Publication
Partial defences in trespass
Field, Iain (2019). Partial defences in trespass. Colloquium on Intersections in Private Law, University of Sydney Law School, Sydney, Australia, 16-17 August 2019.
2019
Journal Article
Statute and Theories of Vicarious Liability
Dietrich, Joachim and Field, Iain (2019). Statute and Theories of Vicarious Liability. Melbourne University Law Review, 43 (2), 515-557.
2017
Journal Article
The 'reasonable tort victim': Contributory negligence, standard of care and the 'equivalence theory'
Dietrich, Joachim and Field, Iain (2017). The 'reasonable tort victim': Contributory negligence, standard of care and the 'equivalence theory'. Melbourne University Law Review, 41 (2), 602-646.
2017
Journal Article
A good faith challenge to the taxonomy of tort law defences
Field, Iain (2017). A good faith challenge to the taxonomy of tort law defences. University of New South Wales Law Journal, 40 (2), 537-565.
2016
Conference Publication
Good faith defences and public sector liability
Field, Iain (2016). Good faith defences and public sector liability. Protecting Business and Economic Interests: Contemporary Issues in Tort Law, Supreme Court, Singapore, 18-19 August 2016.
2016
Journal Article
Good faith protections and public sector liability
Field, Iain (2016). Good faith protections and public sector liability. Torts Law Journal, 23 (3), 210-229.
2015
Journal Article
Welcome to the New Bond Law Review
Field, I. (2015). Welcome to the New Bond Law Review. Bond Law Review, 27 (1), 1-4.
2014
Journal Article
In mourning of bereavement damages
Field, Iain (2014). In mourning of bereavement damages. Torts Law Journal, 22, 95-125.
2011
Journal Article
Preface: The evolving roles of Attorneys-General and Solicitors-General
Field, Iain and Keyzer, Patrick (2011). Preface: The evolving roles of Attorneys-General and Solicitors-General. Bond Law Review, 23 (2), iii-vi.
2011
Journal Article
Crime fighters and border guards: The Scottish law officers in comparative perspective
Field, Iain (2011). Crime fighters and border guards: The Scottish law officers in comparative perspective. Bond Law Review, 23 (2), 26-47.
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