Alistair Price

Gonville and Caius College

The Influence of Human Rights on State Liability for Negligence in South Africa and England

I am comparing and partially evaluating the impact of human rights law on the tortious and delictual liability of public bodies for harm occasioned by their negligent conduct in England and South Africa.

Start Date: 2008/10.

End Date: 2011/09.

Academic qualifications

• BCL (University College, Oxford), LLB (Cape Town), BBusSc (Cape Town)

Teaching experience

• Supervisor in Tort, at Gonville and Caius College (2009-10), and Selwyn and Sidney Sussex Colleges (2010-11), Cambridge University

Research experience

• Clerk to Chief Justice Pius Langa, at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg (2007-8)

• Assistant to Professor Reinhard Zimmermann, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg (2006)

Website

http://cambridge.academia.edu/AlistairPrice

Law of obligations and property; constitutional, administrative and human rights law; legal and political philosophy; Roman and Roman-Dutch law; comparative law

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

• 'The Influence of Human Rights on Private Common Law', forthcoming in South African Law Journal (2011/12).

• 'The Content and Justification of Rationality Review' (2010) 25 Southern African Public Law 346-381.

• 'Rationality Review of Legislation and Executive Decisions: Poverty Alleviation Network and Albutt', (2010) 127 South African Law Journal 580-591.

• Book Review of Goverment Liability by C. Okpaluba & P.C. Osode, (2010) 127 South African Law Journal 548-557.

• '"Dealing with Differences": admitting expert evidence to stretch judicial thinking beyond personal experience, intuition and common sense', 19 South African Journal of Criminal Justice (2006) 141.

Other publications

• 'Spes, Contingent and Vested Rights: Towards the Clear and Consistent Regulation of Future Uncertainty', (2005) Responsa Meridiana 73.

Conference and seminar papers

• 'The Impact of the Bill of Rights on State Delictual Liability for Negligence in South Africa', Obligations V Conference: Rights and Private Law, St Anne's College, Oxford University (2010)

• 'The Influence of Human Rights on State Liability for Negligence in England and South Africa', Comparative Law Discussion Group, Faculty of Law, Cambridge University (2010)

• 'The Content and Justification of Rationality Review', South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law, Johannesburg (2009)

• 'Vicarious Liability of Employers for their Employees' Intentional Delicts', Max Planck Institute for International and Comparative Private Law, Hamburg (2006)

Professor C. F. Forsyth