Professor John Murphy

John holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in law. Prior to coming to Manchester, John worked as a lecturer in law at Sussex University. Over the years he has also held a number of visiting professorships at universities in Europe, Australia and Canada.

These days John's research lies primarily in the field of tort law. In the past, however, he has also published a number of articles and books on family law, health care law and contract.

John's teaching straddles both the undergraduate and postgraduate law programmes. In the main, he teaches tort, contract and family law.

John is also active in the supervision of postgraduate research degrees and he very much welcomes applications from potential postgraduate research students in any of the three areas in which he teaches. Recent supervisees include:

Tareq Al-Tawil (Promises, Contracts and Remedies: The Efficient Breach Theory versus Routine Specific Performance), co-supervised with William Lucy, PhD 2009.

Lawrence Modeme (A Right to Popular Governance in International Law), PhD 2009.

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)

The Law of Nuisance (Oxford: OUP, 2010) (forthcoming).

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

Clerk and Lindsell on Torts (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 20th ed, 2010). (Six 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.