Qualifications Bachelor of Laws [Honours] - University of Auckland Doctor of Philosophy - Australian National University Rick's principal teaching and research interests lie in the area of contract law. He was formerly a Senior Solicitor with the Federal Attorney-General's Department in Canberra (Office of Commercial Law). Before joining Bond he was on the Auckland Law Faculty for 16 years, where he was also the Director of the Research Centre for Business Law. He has published widely in leading international journals on subjects within contract, equity and property law, and he has been a keynote speaker at international conferences on contract law. His publications include the following books: Legal Method in New Zealand (Butterworths, 2001); Exploitative Contracts (Oxford University Press, 2003) (awarded the JF Northey Memorial Book Award for 2003); The Statute: Making and Meaning (LexisNexis, 2004); Public Interest Litigation: The New Zealand Experience in International Perspective (LexisNexis, 2006); The Permanent New Zealand Court of Appeal: Essays on the First 50 Years (Hart Publishing, 2009); Contract as Assumption: Essays on a Theme (by Brian Coote) (Hart Publishing, 2010); and The Law of Remedies: New Directions in the Common Law (Irwin Law, 2010) (with Jeff Berryman). He was formerly the General Editor of the New Zealand Universities Law Review, and was Editor of the New Zealand Law Review 2002-2008.
Articles
Circumscribing election: Reflections on the taxonomization and mental componentry of the affirmation of a contract by election, The University of Queensland Law Journal (2011)
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It not frequently occurs in legal contractual settings that one contracting party is confronted with...
Lapse of offers due to changed circumstances: a contract conversion (with David McLauchlan), Journal of Contract Law (2011)
It is trite law that a change of circumstances between the making of an offer...
Ill-gotten contracts in New Zealand: Parting thoughts on duress, undue influence and unconscionable dealing - Kiwi-style?, Victoria University of Wellington Law Review (2011)
This article considers the private-law doctrines of duress, undue influence and unconscionable dealing as they...
Doctrinal reform and post-contractual modifications in New Brunswick: Nav Canada v. Greater Fredericton Airport Authority Inc., Canadian business law journal (2010)
The application of the pre-existing duty rule and economic duress doctrine in connection with informal...
Fine-tuning affirmation of contract by election: Part 1, New Zealand law review (2010)
The common law election doctrine is well known to judges and lawyers but it is...
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