Warren Swain

Warren Swain is Professor of Law and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland. He has previously published The Law of Contract 1670-1870 (Cambridge, 2015) as part of the Cambridge Studies in English Legal History series, and is currently writing a monograph on the history of the law of contract in Australia and New Zealand between 1788 and 2000. He edited a collection on contract law teaching, Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy with David Campbell (2019). He has published...See more

Warren Swain is Professor of Law and Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Law at the University of Auckland. He has previously published The Law of Contract 1670-1870 (Cambridge, 2015) as part of the Cambridge Studies in English Legal History series, and is currently writing a monograph on the history of the law of contract in Australia and New Zealand between 1788 and 2000. He edited a collection on contract law teaching, Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy with David Campbell (2019). He has published very widely on contract, tort, restitution and intellectual history in a number of jurisdictions. He is one of the world's leading historians of private law. See less