Joanna Kyriakakis is a Senior Lecturer at the Law School, Monash University, Victoria, and Deputy Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law. Kyriakakis teaches and coordinates the Torts Law subjects for the LL.B. and JD degrees, as well as teaching into the elective programs in the areas of International Criminal Law and Animal Law. Her research to date has focused upon corporate accountability for human rights abuses and international criminal law, publishing on a range of related issues in leading books and journals.
1. Introduction to the law of torts
2. Duty of care
3. Breach of duty of care
4. Damage: factual causation and scope of liability
5. Defences to negligence
6. Trespass to the person
7. Trespass to land and trespass to personal property
8. Defences to and remedies for trespass
9. The tort of nuisance
10. Vicarious liability and non-delegable duty
11. Defamation
12. Remedies
13. Torts arising from statutory duties and powers.
