Andrew Burrows
Professor of the Law of England
Andrew Burrows, MA, BCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), FBA, Barrister and Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple is is Professor of the Law of England and a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls. Formerly: the Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law, Fellow of St. Hugh's College. Honorary Director of the Oxford University Law Foundation.
Law Commissioner for England and Wales 1994-1999; Professor of English Law, University College, London 1994-1999; Fellow and CUF Lecturer in Law, Lady Margaret Hall, 1986-1994; Lecturer in Law, University of Manchester 1980-1986; Visiting Professor, Bond University 1994; Research Fellow, Australian National University 1994.
Judicial Studies Board; Civil Committee of the Judicial Studies Board; Recorder on the South-Eastern Circuit; Member of the Ogden Working Party; Door Tenant of Fountain Court Chambers, London.
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2012
A S Burrows, A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment (OUP 2012)
A S Burrows, 'Damages and Rights' in Rights and Private Law (Hart 2012)
A S Burrows, 'Restitution of Mistaken Enrichments ' (2012) 92 Boston University Law Review 767
A S Burrows, 'The Relationship between Common Law and Statute in the Law of Obligations' (2012) 128 Law Quarterly Review 232
2011
A S Burrows, A Casebook on Contract (3rd edn, Hart 2011)
A S Burrows, 'Comparing Compensatory Damages in Contract and Tort: Some Problematic Issues ' in Degeling, Edelman and Goudkamp (eds), Torts in Commercial Law (Thomson Reuters 2011)
A S Burrows, The Law of Restitution (3rd edn, OUP 2011)
2010
A S Burrows, J Beatson and J. Cartwright, Anson's Law of Contract (29th edn, OUP 2010)
A S Burrows, Clerk and Lindsell on Torts (20th edn, Thomson Reuters 2010)
A S Burrows, 'The Australian Law of Restitution: Has the High Court Lost its Way? ' in Bant and Harding (eds), (Cambridge University Press 2010)
2009
A S Burrows, A Casebook on Contract (2nd edn, Hart 2009)
A S Burrows, 'Lord Bingham and Three Continuing Remedial Controversies ' in Adenas and Fairgrieve (eds), Tom Bingham and the Transformation of the Law (OUP 2009)
2008
A S Burrows, 'Are ‘Damages on the Wrotham Park Basis’ Compensatory, Restitutionary, or Neither? ' in Saidov and Cunnington (eds), Current Themes in the Law of Contract Damages (Hart 2008)
A S Burrows, Chitty on Contracts (30th edn, Thomson Reuters 2008)
A S Burrows and Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, 'Peter Birks 1941-2004 ' in Proceedings of the Biritish Academy 150, Biographcial Memoirs of Fellows VI (OUP 2008)
A S Burrows, 'The Relationship Between Unjust Enrichment and Property: Some Unresolved Issues ' in Degeling and Edelman (eds), Unjust Enrichment in Commercial Law (Thomson Reuters 2008)
A S Burrows, 'Uncertainty about Uncertainty: Damages for Loss of a Chance ' (2008) Journal of Personal Injury Law 31
2007
A S Burrows, A Casebook on Contract (Hart 2007)
A S Burrows, Ewan McKendrick and James Edelman, Cases and Materials on the Law of Restitution, 2nd edition (OUP 2007)
A S Burrows, 'Construction and Rectification' in Burrows and Peel (eds), Contract Terms (OUP 2007)
A S Burrows and others (eds), Contract Terms (OUP 2007) [...]
Essays from Norton Rose-Oxford colloquium
ISBN: 978-0-19-922937-6
2006
A S Burrows, 'Absence of Basis: the New Birksian Scheme' in Andrew Burrows and Alan Rodger (eds), Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (OUP 2006) [...]
Essay analysing the advantages and disadvantages of Birks' new approach to the unjust question in unjust enrichment.
ISBN: 0-19-920655-4
A S Burrows, 'Chapters 29-33' in Clerk and Lindsell on Torts (19th edn) (Sweet and Maxwell 2006) [...]
Leading practitioners' work on Torts
ISBN: 0-421-88890-3
A S Burrows and Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (co-editor) (eds), Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (OUP 2006) [...]
Essays in memory of Peter Birks
ISBN: 0-19-920655-4
A S Burrows, 'Remedial Coherence and Punitive Damages in Equity' in S Degeling (ed), Equity in Commercial Law (Thomson 2006) [...]
Argues that punitive damages should be available for equitable wrongs.
ISBN: 0455222088
2005
A S Burrows, 'Restitution in Respect of Mistakenly Paid Tax' (2005) 121 LQR 540 [Case Note]
A S Burrows, 'Unravelling Proprietary Restitution: a Response to Professor Lionel Smith' (2005) Canadian Business Law Journal 424
2004
A S Burrows, 'Chapters 19-20, 28 plus annual supplements 2004, 2005, 2006' in Chitty on Contracts 29th edn ( 2004)
A S Burrows, Remedies for Torts and Breach of contract (3rd edn, OUP 2004)
A S Burrows, 'Some Reflections on Law Reform in England and Canada' (2004) 39 Canadian Business Law Journal 320
A S Burrows, 'The English Law of Restitution: A Ten-Year Review' in Neyers, McInnes and Pitel (eds), Understanding Unjust Enrichment ( 2004)
2003
A S Burrows, 'Change of Position: the View from England' (2003) Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 803 [...]
An examination of the developing defence to restitution of change of position
A S Burrows, Chitty on Contracts, plus supplement 2004 (Sweet and Maxwell 2003) [...]
Practitioners' work
ISBN: 0-421-82900-1
A S Burrows and others (eds), Commercial Remedies (OUP 2003) [...]
Edited papers from Norton Rose -Oxford Law Colloquium 2002
ISBN: 0-19-926465-1
A S Burrows, 'Limitations on Compensation' in Andrew Burrows and Edwin Peel (eds), Commercial Remedies: Current Issues and Problems (OUP 2003) [...]
Explores various limits on contractual damages and equitable compensation
ISBN: 0-19-926465-1
2002
A S Burrows, Clerk and Lindsell on Torts: Annual Supplements 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 (Sweet and Maxwell 2002) [...]
Practitioners' work
ISBN: 0-421-79580-8
A S Burrows, English Private Law: first and second supplements (OUP 2002) [...]
Supplement. My section is on Remedies.
ISBN: 0-19-924754-4
A S Burrows, Fusing Common law and Equity: Remedies, Restitution and Reform (Sweet and Maxwell, Asia 2002) [...]
Text of Hochelaga lectures given in 2001
A S Burrows, The Law of Restitution (2nd edn, Butterworths 2002) [...]
Text on the law of restitution
A S Burrows, 'We do this at Common Law but that in Equity' (2002) 22(1) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1
2001
A S Burrows, 'No Damages for a Third Party's Loss' (2001) 1 OUCLJ 107 [...]
Analysis of Alfred McAlpine case
ISBN: 1472-9342
A S Burrows, 'Proprietary Restitution: Unmasking Unjust Enrichment' (2001) 117(Jul) Law Quarterly Review 412
News
The Law of Unjust Enrichment Lecture & Book Launch
Professor Andrew Burrows QC has recently published a Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment (OUP, 2012) [more…]
Interests
Teaching: Commercial Law; Contract; Restitution; Tort
Research: English Private Law, Contract, Unjust Enrichment, Tort, Remedies
