Mr John Murphy

John Murphy's research interests nowadays lie in the field of tort. He is also known for his previous work on family law and (probably less so) health care law.

John Murphy is interested in all aspects of tort law; but in recent times he has been chiefly concerned with explantory accounts of tort law as a whole as well as with different models and theories of tortious liability.

John Murphy teaches tort, contract and some family law. He welcomes applications from potential postgraduate research students in any of these three areas.

Publications Database

John Murphy is the author of International Dimensions in Family Law (Manchester University Press, 2005) and the principal author and editor of Ethnic Minorities, Their Families and the Law (Hart Publishing, 2000).

He is also the editor of Street on Torts (Oxford University Press: 2007) and one of the editorial team of Clerk and Lindsell on Torts.

BOOKS (Since 2000)

Street on Torts (Oxford: OUP, 12th ed, 2007).

Clerk and Lindsell on Torts (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 19th ed, 2006). (Five chapters.)

International Dimensions in Family Law (Manchester: MUP, 2005).

Street on Torts (Oxford: OUP, 11th ed, 2003).

Ethnic Minorities, Their Families and the Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2000) (Principal author and editor).

 

REPORT

Tort Liability for Pesticide Misuse (30pp) (published in the "Use of Pesticides" Report produced by Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution).

 

ARTICLES & ESSAYS (Since 2000)

"Partial Blindness and Alternative Insights in the Ascription of Negligence Liability” (with F. Stephen) in M. Faure and F. Stephen (eds), Essays in the Law and Economics of Regulation: In Honour of Anthony Ogus (Antwerp: Intersentia, 2008)

"Rights, Reductionism and Tort Law" (2008) 28 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies ( 393-407 )

"The Liability Bases of Common Law Non-Delegable Duties: A Reply to Christian Witting" (2007) 30 Unversity of New South Wales Law Journal 86-102.

"Rethinking Injunctions in Tort law" (2007) 27 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 509-535.

"Juridical Foundations of Common Law Non-Delegable Duties" in Neyers et al (eds.), Emerging Issues in Tort Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2007).

"Same-sex Marriage - A Human Rights Approach" [2004] Child and Family Law Quarterly 245-259.

"The Merits of Rylands v Fletcher" (2004) 24 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 643-669.

"Some Wrongs and (Human) Rights in the English Same-Sex Marriage Debate" (2004) 18 Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law 543-567.

"Children in Need: The Limits of Local Authority Accountability" [2003] Legal Studies 102-134.

"The Recognition of Same-sex Families in Britain : the Role of Private International Law" (2002) 16 International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family 181-201.

"Rationality and Cultural Pluralism in the Non-Recognition of Foreign Marriages" (2000) 49 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 643-659.