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Private law as a complex system: agendas for the twenty-first century / Kit Barker -- Challenges for private law in the twenty-first century / Andrew Burrows --Rationalising tort law for the twenty-first century / Ken Oliphant -- The challenges of private law: a research agenda for an autonomy-based private law / Hanoch Dagan -- The steaming lungs of a pigeon: predicting the direction of Australian contract law in the next 25 years / Warren Swain -- Codification of private law: Scots law at the crossroads of common and civil law / Martin A Hogg -- Power-failure? the distracting effect of legislation on common law torts / Wendy Bonython -- Constructive trusteeship: the perils of statutory formulae / Darryn Jensen -- Fusing the equitable function in private law / Henry E Smith -- Dealing with complexity: different approaches to explaining accessory liability / Joachim Dietrich -- The challenges presented by fundamental rights to private law / Hugh Collins -- The limits of technocracy: private law's future in the regulatory state / TT Arvind and Joanna Gray -- Common law and the constraint of financial markets: credit-ratings as a test case / Joshua Getzler and Alexandra Whelan -- Apologies as canaries: tortious liability in negligence and insurance in the twenty-first century / Prue Vines -- When lump sums run out: disputes at the borderlines of tort law, injury compensation, and social security / Genevieve Grant, Kylie Burns, Rosamund Harrington, Prue Vines, Elizabeth Kendall and Annick Maujean -- Perform if and when you do?: non-performance and the suspension of contractual duties / Andrew Tettenborn -- Vindicatory damages / James Edelman -- Persuasive technologies: from loss of privacy to loss of autonomy / Eliza Mik -- Snooping: how should damages be assessed for harmless breaches of privacy? / Erika Chamberlain -- Compensating injury to autonomy: a conceptual and normative analysis / Tsachi Keren-Paz -- Matter over mind: tort law's treatment of emot