On 28 October 2023, Dr Rachel Leow, Dr Tim Liau, and Professor Charlie Webb spoke at a symposium on ‘The Laws of Restitution’. The full-day research symposium at Keble College, Oxford, was organised to celebrate the publication of Professor Robert Stevens’s new book, The Laws of Restitution (OUP, 2023). The symposium brought together students, practitioners, members of the judiciary, and distinguished academics from around the world to discuss the ideas in the book and their practical implications.
Each of the symposium’s four panels was represented by a member of the LSE Law School. In the first session on ‘Summary and Foundations’, Professor Charlie Webb commented on the book’s methodology. Dr Tim Liau contributed a comment on ‘Conditional Performance’ in the second session on a key section of the book: the concept of ‘Performance’. Dr Rachel Leow discussed the book’s challenging views on ‘Trusts’ in the third session on ‘Property and Trusts’. Professor Dame Sarah Worthington, also of the LSE Law School, chaired the fourth and final session of the symposium, which covered ‘Countervailing Reasons’, ‘Wrongdoing’, and ‘Intervention in Another’s Affairs’.