Restitution and Unjust Enrichment Law - LAWS4036


	Faculty: Faculty of Law
	School: Faculty of Law
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 8
	EFTSL: 0.167 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9210 or 5740.
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 3 (more info)

Description

Restitution is the law's response to unjust enrichment. This course will deal with the question of how and when a plaintiff can compel a defendant to hand over enrichment gained at the plaintiff's expense. Courts in Australia, alongside those in other common law jurisdictions, recognise unjust enrichment as a source of rights and obligations.

The course will also deal with such fundamental questions as:

(1) the reasons for and measures of an unjust enrichment claim;
(2) the constituent elements of a claim in unjust enrichment; and
(3) how the law of unjust enrichment is conceptually related to other sources of rights and obligations (eg tort, contract).