Professor – UNSW, Sydney
Professor Prue Vines has been a member of the UNSW Law School since 1990. Her major areas of research interest are torts, (especially apologies in civil liability) and succession law (especially the impact of succession laws on Indigenous people). She has been the author of many books, chapters and articles on each of these including being co-Editor (with Carolyn Sappideen) of Fleming’s Law of Torts; co-author (with Rosalind Croucher) of the leading succession textbook, Succession: Families, Property and Death, and sole author of Law and Justice in Australia: foundations of the legal system. Her most recent publication is (with Carroll and Chiu) Annotation of the Apology Ordinance,Hong Kong. She has been the Director of First Year Studies at UNSW Law since 1996. She is the co-Director of the Private Law Research and Policy Group at UNSW and from 2006-2017 was Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University Law School, Glasgow, Scotland. Professor Vines is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a UNSW Scientia Education Academy Fellow.
Professor Prue Vines has been a member of the UNSW Law School since 1990. Her major areas of research interest are torts, (especially apologies in civil liability) and succession law (especially the impact of succession laws on Indigenous people). She has been the author of many books, chapters and articles on each of these including being co-Editor (with Carolyn Sappideen) of Fleming’s Law of Torts; co-author (with Rosalind Croucher) of the leading succession textbook, Succession: Families, Property and Death, and sole author of Law and Justice in Australia: foundations of the legal system. Her most recent publication is (with Carroll and Chiu) Annotation of the Apology Ordinance,Hong Kong. She has been the Director of First Year Studies at UNSW Law since 1996. She is the co-Director of the Private Law Research and Policy Group at UNSW and from 2006-2017 was Visiting Professor at Strathclyde University Law School, Glasgow, Scotland. Professor Vines is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law and a UNSW Scientia Education Academy Fellow.