Alexandra Braun

CUF Lecturer

Alexandra Braun is a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Lady Margaret Hall and a Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law. Prior to that she was a Supernumerary Teaching Fellow and a Junior Research Fellow in Law at St. John's College, Oxford. She received her BA and LLM degree from the University of Genoa (Italy) and holds a PhD in Comparative Private Law from the University of Trento (Italy). Since 2009 she is also a Visiting Associate Professor at the International University College of Turin where she teaches a course on Intergenerational Transfer of Wealth.

Her teaching interests include Comparative Private Law and Legal History as well as some core areas of private law such as Trust Law, Succession Law and Contract Law. Currently, she teaches the undergraduate courses on A Roman Introduction to Private Law, Trust Law and Land Law and the BCL/MJur course on Advanced Property and Trusts.

Her main research interests lie in the field of Comparative Law, European Private Law and Legal History, as well as areas of private law such as Contract Law, Succession Law and the Law of Trusts.