Christian Witting is Associate Professor in the Melbourne Law School, Member of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, and Fellow of the European Centre for Tort and Insurance Law, Vienna (see www.ectil.org). He is admitted as a barrister and solicitor in the High Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Victoria. His areas of expertise are corporations and tort law. His current research examines limited liability and the liability of corporate groups and is funded by the Australian Research Council.
Christian is the author of Liability for Negligent Misstatements (Oxford, 2004) and co-editor of Pure Economic Loss (Springer Verlag, 2004). He has published in Cambridge Law Journal, Law Quarterly Review, Legal Studies, Melbourne University Law Review, Modern Law Review, Monash University Law Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, University of New South Wales Law Journal, University of Queensland Law Journal and a number of professional journals.
Christian's work has been cited in the United Kingdom House of Lords, the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, the High Court of Australia, the Federal Court of Australia, the New South Wales Court of Appeal, Queensland Court of Appeal and the ACT Supreme Court. He has presented to various professional bodies including Munich-Re (Germany), the College of Law of England and Wales, Barry and Nilsson Lawyers (Queensland), and the Victorian Departments of Primary Industry and Sustainability and Energy.
