Rate My Professor Katy Barnett

Barnett's research interests encompass remedies law and related private law topics, including disgorgement of profit, the calculation of damages at common law and in statute, the law on penalties, and proprietary remedies for breach of fiduciary duty. She also explores comparative law, animal law, behavioural economics, and legal history. Her teaching covers Property, Equity and Trusts, Trusts, Torts, Contract, and Remedies in the LLB and JD degrees, as well as Remedies in Commercial Law and Remedies in the Construction Law Context in the Masters program. Key publications include Accounting for Profit for Breach of Contract: Theory and Practice (Hart Publishing, 2012), Remedies in Australian Private Law (with Sirko Harder, Cambridge University Press, 2018; second edition), and Guilty Pigs: Animals, Law and History (with Jeremy Gans, Black Inc., 2022). She received the Barbara Falk Award for excellence in teaching in 2016. Barnett is a foundation editor of the Melbourne Law School blog, Opinions on High (with Professor Jeremy Gans and Dr Brad Jessup), and was elected to the Editorial Advisory Board of Melbourne University Press as the Law member in 2021.