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Michael specialises in civil and regulatory litigation, class actions, and corporate and securities law. 

Michael's main research interests are case management of complex civil litigation, the impact of cost and delay on the civil justice system, class actions, litigation funding, regulators’ investigatory powers and the interaction between public and private enforcement of securities laws.  His research has been cited in judgments from the Federal Court of Australia, Supreme Court of New South Wales and the Supreme Court of Victoria, and in law reform reports by the Australian Law Reform Commission, NSW Law Reform Commission and Victorian Law Reform Commission.

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My research is about private law and its internal structures and architecture. My research is premised on the view that private law should be transparent and rational. Law should offer an acceptable degree of predictability of outcome and those who apply it should be accountable in part by the giving of defensible reasons. The development of a taxonomy by which we can understand private law assists in achieving and maintaining these objectives. It is therefore necessary to have a view of private law as an integrated whole rather than simply as a collection of discrete and sometimes merely contextual categories.

My particular expertise lies in the law of unjust enrichment, the law of equity and the law of remedies. Within unjust enrichment scholarship, I have done extensive work on policy motivated unjust factors and the intersections between unjust enrichment and tort. I use both doctrinal and theoretical approaches to inform my work.

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