Rate My Professor Robyn Honey

Robyn Honey served as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at Murdoch University. She holds a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours (LLB Hons 1A) and a Master of Laws with Distinction (LLM Dist) from the University of Western Australia. Prior to her academic career, she was admitted as a barrister and solicitor to the Supreme Court of Western Australia, where she worked in the State Solicitor's Office and for the firm now known as King & Wood Mallesons. Honey has demonstrated extensive expertise in teaching property law, equity, and trusts, serving as supervisor for numerous honours theses at Murdoch University. These include theses on the equitable doctrine of relief against penalties (J Horne, 2013), changing the legal status of non-human animals (K Frew, 2014), the presumption of advancement (HJ Langworthy, 2014), law of value in judicial decision-making, good faith relations using relational contract theory, proportionate liability, equitable estoppel, and freedom of protection provisions under the Fair Work Act.

Honey's research focuses on property law, equity and trusts, restitution, unjust enrichment, legal theory, and common law legal history, with an emphasis on equitable doctrines such as undue influence and their relationship to common law principles across jurisdictions. Her key publications include 'Deconstructing Equitable Undue Influence: Insights from a Genealogy' (2020) 14(1) Journal of Equity 58; 'Renovating the Concept of Consent in Contract and Property Law' in New Directions for Law in Australia (ANU Press, 2017); 'Divergence in the Australian and English Law of Undue Influence: Vacillation or Variance?' in Divergences in Private Law (Hart, 2016); 'A Sustainable Future for the Rule against Perpetuities' and 'The Impending Demise of the Principle in Lysaght v Edwards' (co-authored with J Mugambwa), both in Property and Sustainability: Selected Essays (Thomson Reuters, 2011); 'Great Expectations: Equity, Inheritance and the Family Farm' (co-authored with M Evans) (2007) 9 Legal Issues in Business 47; 'The Interface between Trademark, Designs and Passing Off under Australian Law' (2000) 7 E-law - Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law; and 'Proprietary Claims and Remedies' (1999) International Trade and Business Law Annual 285. She has presented papers at conferences including the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conferences (2016, 2017), Obligations conferences (2014, 2018), Australasian Property Law Teachers' Conferences (2010, 2017), and the National Law Reform Conference (2016). In 2014, Honey received Murdoch University's Vice Chancellor's Citation for Excellence in Enhancing Learning. Her contributions include a submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission on family law in 2018.