Lecturer, Melbourne Law School, Victoria
Katy Barnett first joined Melbourne Law School in 2006 as a sessional lecturer and was appointed permanently in 2010. She completed an LLB with Honours and a BA with majors in English, History and Medieval Studies at the University of Melbourne in 1999. In 2010, she completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne on accounts of profit for breach of contract. Prior to commencing postgraduate study, Katy was a research assistant to the Court of Appeal at the Supreme Court of Victoria, completed her articles at Freehills, was an Associate to Justice Mandle at the Supreme Court of Australia and was a banking litigator at Russell Kennedy. She keeps up her connections to practice as a legal consultant at Sharpe & Abel.
Katy has published widely on Remedies Law and other related aspects of private law, including on disgorgement of profits, the calculation of damages at common law and in statute, the law on penalties and proprietary remedies for breach of fiduciary duties. She also has interests in common law, comparative law, behavioural economics and legal history. Her PhD was published in 2012 by Hart Publishing as a monograph entitled “Accounting for Profit for Breach of Contract Theory and Practice” and it has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada. She has also written Remedies in Australian Private Law (CUP, 2018) with Dr Sirko Harder, now in its second edition.
Katy Barnett first joined Melbourne Law School in 2006 as a sessional lecturer and was appointed permanently in 2010. She completed an LLB with Honours and a BA with majors in English, History and Medieval Studies at the University of Melbourne in 1999. In 2010, she completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne on accounts of profit for breach of contract. Prior to commencing postgraduate study, Katy was a research assistant to the Court of Appeal at the Supreme Court of Victoria, completed her articles at Freehills, was an Associate to Justice Mandle at the Supreme Court of Australia and was a banking litigator at Russell Kennedy. She keeps up her connections to practice as a legal consultant at Sharpe & Abel.
Katy has published widely on Remedies Law and other related aspects of private law, including on disgorgement of profits, the calculation of damages at common law and in statute, the law on penalties and proprietary remedies for breach of fiduciary duties. She also has interests in common law, comparative law, behavioural economics and legal history. Her PhD was published in 2012 by Hart Publishing as a monograph entitled “Accounting for Profit for Breach of Contract Theory and Practice” and it has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada. She has also written Remedies in Australian Private Law (CUP, 2018) with Dr Sirko Harder, now in its second edition.