Professor Jo Braithwaite
Jo is a professor of international commercial finance law. Her current and ongoing research interests relate to the use of private law in the international markets, with a particular focus on the derivatives markets, the use of standard form contracts and the resilience of financial market infrastructure.
Dr Jacco Bomhoff
Jacco’s main areas of interest are comparative law and the conflict of laws (private international law).
Emeritus Professor Michael Bridge KC (Hon)
Michael researches secured transactions, international and domestic sale of goods, uniform law, private international law, comparative private law, and personal property law.
Professor, Cassel Chair of Commercial Law Hugh Collins
Hugh Collins has published research in contract law, employment law, European law, legal theory, and human rights law.
Professor Sir Ross Cranston
Presently Ross’s main research interests are the judiciary and judging. He has written extensively on commercial law and regulation, legal history, and legal method.
Professor Neil Duxbury
Neil has published works on jurisprudence, legal history, and legal method. He is currently writing about sources of law.
Dr Tatiana Flessas
Tatiana’s research is in the area of cultural property and legal theory, focussing on the emergence of cultural property regulation and heritage legislation as discourses of modernity. I look at the problems of defining cultural property, the controversy surrounding the ownership of the Parthenon Marbles, and how museums and the repatriation of ancient skeletons fit within the debates regarding the cultural commons. Her work draws on modern philosophy from Nietzsche onwards, as well as literary theory.
Dr Rachel Leow
Rachel is a private lawyer whose main research expertise and interests span three broad areas: agency law, the law of unjust enrichment and restitution, and trusts and commercial equity. She also has a special interest in corporate attribution in private law.
Dr Tim Liau
Tim researches private and commercial law. He is especially interested in the laws of contract, unjust enrichment and restitution, commercial remedies, and private law theory. His research spans the laws of obligations and property.
Dr Paul MacMahon
Paul’s primary interests are contracts, commercial law, and international arbitration.
Professor Eva Micheler
Eva has written widely on corporate and comparative law. Intermediated securities and holding and transfer systems have been a significant focus of her work.
Dr Szymon Osmola
Szymon's research focuses on the intersection of contract and consumer law, legal theory and EU law.
Professor Sarah Paterson
Sarah’s main areas of research are corporate reorganization and insolvency. She is also interested in related areas of property and trust law.
Dr Nick Sage
Nick has written about contract, property, and tort law. He is particularly interested in theoretical questions about how to understand and justify these areas of law, as well as related issues in moral and political philosophy.
Dr Astrid Sanders
Astrid researches labour law and employment law, the relationship between labour law and contract and tort, and the relationship between labour law and human rights law.
Dr Joe Spooner
Joe researches issues of law, policy, and politics relating to household debt, over-indebtedness, and financialization. He also takes particular interest in issues of dispute resolution and access to justice, with a focus on how law serves low-income groups.
Professor Emmanuel Voyiakis
Emmanuel’s private law research focuses on the proper justification of tort and contract law doctrines, and tries to explain how our considered views about moral justification, responsibility and social justice bear on general theories of private law and on the way particular private law doctrines should be understood and applied. He is also interested in the theory of international law.
Dr Alex Waghorn
Alex researches all aspects of private law, but is particularly interested in property, tort and restitution. His PhD thesis concerned the doctrinal and normative foundations of rules of English law which govern the creation of new property rights.
Professor Dame Sarah Worthington KC (Hon)
Sarah’s research is primarily focused on controversial issues relating either to personal property rights or to abuse of power in commercial, not-for-profit and corporate contexts.
Professor Charlie Webb
Charlie’s research is in private law theory, principally in the areas of contract, trusts and restitution.