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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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2011
Journal Article
The 'institutional integrity' principle: Where are we now, and where are we headed?
Steytler, Chris and Field, Iain (2011). The 'institutional integrity' principle: Where are we now, and where are we headed?. University of Western Australia Law Review, 35 (2), 227-264.
2011
Journal Article
Judicial mediation, the judicial process and Ch III of the Constitution
Field, Iain (2011). Judicial mediation, the judicial process and Ch III of the Constitution. Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal, 22 (2), 72-83.
2010
Journal Article
A comment on costs in Constitutional cases
Field, Iain (2010). A comment on costs in Constitutional cases. Bond Law Review, 22 (3), 104-110.
2010
Conference Publication
A comment on costs in constitutional cases
Field, Iain (2010). A comment on costs in constitutional cases. Access to Constitutional Justice Conference, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia, 4 June 2010.
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