John Enman-Beech
Contact
Faculty of Law - Admin
- enmanbee@ualberta.ca
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
law contract private law rhetoric
About
John (or Jack) Enman-Beech studies contract law, especially current issues in work, consumer, and user law. They have published on the ways contract structures people's relationships with social media platforms, gig economy apps, and other businesses. Their work is methodologically diverse, encompassing both doctrinal approaches and feminist, queer and critical legal and economic theory.
See their SSRN page for publications from the Dalhousie Law Journal, the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, the Supreme Court Law Review, the Canadian Business Law Journal, the Journal of Commonwealth Law, and the Journal of Law and Equality.
Courses
LAW 455 - Legal Seminar
Legal Seminars present diverse perspectives on the law and legal systems, including topics such as jurisprudence, legal history, legal theory, justice and human rights, within one or more legal traditions. Evaluation will be based primarily on written work. Students may take multiple sections of the course with the approval of the Vice Dean.
LAW 511 - Remedies
This course focuses on remedies in a commercial setting, regardless of which 'compartment' of law with which they are typically associated. The course will explore issues related to traditional contract remedies, contract-tort overlap, and equitable remedies. It will also consider some of the problems associated with personal injury claims including quantification issues and the role of insurance.
LAW 580 - Trusts
A brief survey of the historical development of the trust. Definition and classification of trusts. Creation of express trust; the three certainties. Completely and incompletely constituted trusts. Secret, protective, discretionary and illusory trusts. Charitable trust and the rule against perpetuities. Cy-pres doctrine. Non-charitable purpose trusts. Implied or resulting trusts. Constructive trusts. Revocation, termination and variation of trusts. The appointment, retirement and removal of trustees. Duties, discretion and powers of trustees. Breach of trust.