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.
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Journal Articles
2012
A Braun, 'Formal and Informal Testamentary Promises: A Historical and Comparative Perspective' (2012) The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law 994
A Braun, 'Towards a Greater Autonomy for Testators and Heirs: Some Reflections on Recent Reforms in France, Belgium and Italy' (2012) Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht 461
2011
A Braun, 'Trusts in the Draft Common Frame of Reference: The ‘Best Solution’ For Europe? ' (2011) 70 Cambridge Law Journal 327
2010
A Braun, 'Burying the Living? The Citation of Legal Writings in English Courts' (2010) 58 American Journal of Comparative Law 27
Chapters
2013
A Braun, 'The Framing of a European Law of Trusts' in L. Smith (ed), The Worlds of the Trust (CUP, Cambridge 2013) (forthcoming)
2012
A Braun, 'Testamentary Freedom and its Restrictions in French and Italian Law: Trends and Shifts' in R. Zimmermann (ed), Freedom of Testation/Testierfreiheit (Mohr Siebeck 2012)
2010
A Braun, 'Judges and Academics: Features of a Partnership' in J Lee (ed), From House of Lords to Supreme Court. Judges, Jurists and the Process of Judging (Hart Publishing, Oxford 2010)
Interests
Teaching: Trusts; Contract; Roman Law; Land Law; Advanced Property and Trusts; Comparative Private Law
Research: Comparative Trusts and Succession Law, European Private Law, European Legal History and Comparative Law
