Mindy Chen-Wishart
Reader in Contract Law
Mindy Chen-Wishart is a Lecturer in the Law Faculty and a Tutorial Fellow in Law at Merton College. She has taught law since 1985. Until 1992, she was a Senior Lecturer at Otago University in New Zealand. She then spent two years as the Rhodes Visiting Research Fellow at St. Hilda's College before taking up her current position. She teaches Contract, Restitution, Torts and Constitutional Law (and has previously also taught Administrative Law, Consumer Protection Law and Introduction to Law). She is involved in graduate teaching in Restitution and supervises graduate students working in topics in the law of Contract and Restitution.
Publications
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2013
M Chen-Wishart, 'Legal Transplant and Undue Influence: Lost in Translation or a Working Misunderstanding' (2013) 62 International and Comparative Law Quarterly (forthcoming) [...]
Is legal transplant possible? The stark bipolarity of a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer attracted by such a question is much less interesting and revealing than the question: what shapes the life of legal transplants? The answer to the latter question is contingent on a wide range of variables triggered by the particular transplant; the result can occupy any point along the spectrum from faithful replication to outright rejection. This case study of the transplant of the English doctrine of undue influence into Singaporean law asks why the Singaporean courts have applied the doctrine in family guarantee cases to such divergent effect, when they profess to apply the same law. The answer requires an examination of the relationship between law and society, and between the formal and informal legal orders of the originating and the recipient society.
ISBN: 0020-5893
M Chen-Wishart and U Magnus, 'Termination, Price Reduction and Damages' in S Vogenaur, G Dannemann (eds), The Common European Sales Law and its Interaction with English and German Law (Oxford University Press 2013) (forthcoming)
2012
M Chen-Wishart, Contract Law (4th ed, Oxford University Press 2012)
2011
M Chen-Wishart, Contract and Reciprocity: The Hochelaga Annual Lectures of the Hong Kong University Law Faculty (Hochelaga 2011)
M Chen-Wishart, 'The Purposes and Methods of English Contract Law' (2011) 12 Peking University Law Review 681
