About us
The UWA Private & Commercial Law Research Cluster is a group of UWA Law School academics which aims to foster scholarship and academic discussion in private law and commercial law, both in respect of research and teaching.
Its predecessor is the UWA Law School Obligations Hub, which was established informally in 2018. The law of obligations is a branch of private law which organises and regulates the rights and duties (the ‘obligations’) arising between individuals. This ordinarily includes the law of contract, tort, unjust enrichment, property, equity and trusts, and remedies. The law of ‘obligations’ comprises a significant part of private law.
There is a rich and deep history of legal scholarship in these core areas of legal education and practice. Increasingly researchers in the law of obligations are combining doctrinal and empirical research methods and undertaking interdisciplinary projects.
Scholarship of obligations often touches on other areas of law, especially commercial law. The rebranding of the Obligations Hub as the UWA Private & Commercial Law Research Cluster embraces the practical applications of this rich area of law to industry.
