Restitution Roundtable

On 14 December 2007, the Frances Lewis Law Center, of the School of Law, University of Washington and Lee, Lexington, Virginia, in association with the University of Washington and Lee Law Review, will host

A Roundtable on Restitution and Unjust Enrichment in North America.

The main point underpinning the Roundtable is to get North American (ie, Canadian and US) Restitution scholars, practitioners, judges and others with an interest in the subject, together in one place, talking about current legal issues in the Law of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment. There seem to be too few opportunities to do so, except on the margins of other more generally focussed events. The hope is that this informal Roundtable will provide just such a context. Given that the American Law Institute’s current project on a Restatement (Third) on Restitution and Unjust Enrichment is at a crucial stage, and that the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent case law is proving controversial, this would seem an opportune time.

The current papers are below. There are details at these links on the participants, registration, and getting to and staying in Lexington. Our call for papers is now closed. The running order for the day is at present is as follows:

10:30 Registration & Coffee

11:00 Welcomes

Chair: Andrew Kull (Boston University) (short bio here)

11:10 Morning Session

Chaim Saiman (University of Villanova) “Where is American Law of Restitution Hiding … And Why?” (short bio and full abstract here)

Eoin O’Dell (Trinity College Dublin, and WLU) “Echoes and Mysticism: The Canadian Law of Restitution and Unjust Enrichment From the Outside, Looking In” (short bio and full abstract here)

Colleen P Murphy (Roger Williams School of Law) “The Confused Meanings of ‘Equitable’ and ‘Specific’ Restitution” (short bio and full abstract here)

Jason Neyers (University of Western Ontario) “Commentary on the US and Canada” (short bio and full abstract here)

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Afternoon Session

John McCamus (Osgoode Hall) “Wrongful Conduct and Change of Position” (short bio and full abstract here)

Doug Rendleman (WLU) “The Restatement Process and Its Critics” (short bio and full abstract here)

Caprice L Roberts (University of West Virginia, and WLU) “A Commonwealth of Perspective on Restitutionary Disgorgement for Opportunistic Breach of Contract” (short bio and full abstract here)

Tony Duggan (University of Toronto) “A Spot Of Strother: The Latest (Unreliable) Word on Disgorgement Remedies in Canada” (short bio and full abstract here)

16:00 Coffee

Thanks to the generosity of the Frances Lewis Law Center, there is no charge for attending the Roundtable.