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28 Sydney L. Rev. 7 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/sydney28 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION: DAVID HARLAND KEVIN LINDGREN* I am thankful to the editor of the Sydney Law Review for the opportunity to write an introduction to this special issue in honour in the late Professor David John Harland. David, by then Professor Emeritus, died suddenly on 30 November 2004, when he was recuperating at home following a hip replacement operation. David obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sydney in 1960, followed by a Bachelor of Laws with First Class Honours and the University Medal in 1963. In that year he was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and won a shell Post-Graduate Scholarship which enabled him to study at Magdalen College, Oxford. He graduated BCL in 1965. For a short time he was an instructor at the School of Law, University of Pennsylvania. It was during his sojourn there that he met his future wife Barbara. David returned home in 1966 to take up a Lectureship in Law at the University of Sydney, becoming Senior Lecturer (1968), Associate Professor (1974), and Challis Professor of Law (1981). Although he retired in 2001, he remained at the Law School, researching, writing, and lecturing to postgraduate classes. He was made an Emeritus Professor in May 2001. Upon his appointment as a Lecturer in Law, David was assigned teaching responsibilities in the law of contracts. He developed expertise in that field for which he was soon widely recognised. In 1974 his The Law of Minors in Relation to Contracts and Property was published. Although the book's sub-title described it as 'An analysis of the Minors (Property and Contracts) Act 1970 (NSW)' and the Preface referred to that analysis as its 'primary object', the book also contained, both by way of introduction and in the discussion throughout, a learned account of the position at common law. Early in his career, David developed an interest in consumer protection and product liability. With Geoffrey Taperell and Bob Vermeesch, he wrote Trade Practices and Consumer Protection. The various editions of this work appeared in 1974, 1978 and 1983. At the outset of the planning of Lindgren, Carter and Harland, Contract Law in Australia (1986), David very fairly explained to John and me that contract law had come to take second place to consumer protection and product liability in terms of his academic interests and activities, and that his contribution to the book would have to be less than what it would otherwise have been. John and I were most grateful that he remained willing to participate at all. It was a pleasure to work with him. * Justice of the Federal Court of Australia.

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