Katy Barnett

Katy Barnett is an Australian academic and author. She joined Melbourne Law School in 2006 as a sessional lecturer and was permanently appointed a Professor of Law in 2010.^[1][2]

Her expertise is in private law, with particular expertise on the law of remedies, contract, equity, legal history, as well as animal law.^[2][3][4]

She has been described as 'one of the most eminent authors and commentators' in the field of remedies and private law.

Katy completed an LLB with Honours and a BA with majors in English, History, and Medieval Studies at the University of Melbourne in 1999.^[1][2]

Before her academic career, she worked as a research assistant at the Court of Appeal at the Victorian Supreme Court and was an associate to Justice Mandie. In private practice she worked at both Freehills and Russell Kennedy.^[1][2]

Academic career

In 2006 Katy joined Melbourne Law School as a lecturer and was appointed permanently in 2010. In 2013 she served as a visiting scholar at Brasenose College, Oxford.^[1]

Her scholarship has been cited by apex courts such as the Supreme Court of Canada.^[1]

In 2022 she co-authored a book on Animal Law with another University of Melbourne professor Jeremy Gans.^[3][8][9]

In 2022 she was appointed editor of the Indian Law Review.^[10][11]

Non-academic writing

In addition to her academic writing, she has contributed articles to Quilette, and Times Higher Education.^[12][13]

Bibliography

Academic works

• Accounting for Profit for Breach of Contract: Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012)
• Guilty Pigs: The Weird and Wonderful History of Animal Law (Black Ink Books, 2022)
• Remedies Cases and Materials in Australian Private Law (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
• Remedies in Australian Private Law (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
• Research Handbook on Remedies in Private Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) (Contributor)

Fiction

• The Earth Below (Ligature, 2019)^[14]

References