Donal Nolan
CUF Lecturer
Donal Nolan is the Porjes Foundation Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford, and a CUF Lecturer in Law in the University of Oxford. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford (BA and BCL) and was previously a Lecturer in Law at King's College London. He has taught tort, contract, international trade law, restitution and commercial law, and has been a Visiting Professor in the Universities of Florida and Trento. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne. Donal's research interests lie in tort and contract, and he has published on a range of topics in these areas, including nuisance, liability for psychiatric injury, public authority liability, privity of contract and estoppel. Recent publications include 'Offer and Acceptance in the Electronic Age' in Burrows and Peel (eds), Contract Formation and Parties (OUP, 2010); 'The Page v Smith Saga: A Tale of Inauspicious Origins and Unintended Consequences' [2010] CLJ 495 (with Stephen Bailey); 'The Liability of Public Authorities for Failing to Confer Benefits' (2011) 127 LQR 260; 'Nuisance' in Hoffman (ed), The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law (CUP, 2011); and 'The Fatal Accidents Act 1846' in Arvind and Steele (eds), Tort Law and the Legislature: Common Law, Statute and the Dynamics of Legal Change (Hart, 2012). He is the author of the chapters on government liability, product liability, nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher and fire in Oliphant (ed), The Law of Tort (Butterworths, 2nd edn, 2007); the chapters on strict liability and the principle of Rylands v Fletcher in Sappideen and Vines (eds), Fleming's The Law of Torts (Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia, 10th edn, 2011); and the co-editor of Rights and Private Law (Hart, 2012), to which he contributed two chapters, 'Rights and Private Law' (with Andrew Robertson) and '"A Tort Against Land": Private Nuisance as a Property Tort' . Donal is also the co-editor of OSCOLA, the Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (www.law.ox.ac.uk/publications/oscola.php).
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2013
D P Nolan, 'Negligence and Human Rights: The Case for Separate Development' (2013) 76 Modern Law Review 286
2012
D P Nolan, 'Carriage of Goods by Sea, 2nd edn' (2012) 128 Law Quarterly Review 469 [Review]
D P Nolan, 'Enterprise Liability and the Common Law' (2012) 41 Industrial Law Journal 370 [Review]
D P Nolan and S Meredith (eds), 'OSCOLA: The Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities' (2012) 4th edn Hart Publishing
D P Nolan and A Robertson (eds), Rights and Private Law (Hart Publishing 2012)
D P Nolan and A Robertson, 'Rights and Private Law' in D Nolan and A Robertson (eds), Rights and Private Law (Hart Publishing 2012)
D P Nolan, 'The Fatal Accidents Act 1846' in TT Arvind and J Steele (eds), Tort Law and the Legislature: Common Law, Statute and the Dynamics of Legal Change ( 2012)
A Mullis and D P Nolan, 'Tort' in All England Law Reports Annual Review 2011 (Butterworths LexisNexis 2012)
D P Nolan, '\\\"A Tort Against Land\\\": Private Nuisance as a Property Tort' in D Nolan and A Robertson (eds), Rights and Private Law (Hart Publishing 2012)
2011
D P Nolan, 'Chapters on Strict Liability and The Principle of Rylands v Fletcher' in Carolyn Sappideen and Prue Vines (eds), Fleming's The Law of Torts (Thomson Reuters (Professional) Australia 2011)
D P Nolan, 'Nuisance' in D Hoffman (ed), The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law (CUP 2011)
D P Nolan, 'The Law of Electronic Commerce' [2011] [2010] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 677 [Review]
D P Nolan, 'The Liability of Public Authorities for Failing to Confer Benefits' (2011) 127 Law Quarterly Review 260
D P Nolan and A Mullis, 'Tort' in All England Law Reports Annual Review 2010 (LexisNexis Butterworths 2011)
2010
D P Nolan, 'Alcock v Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police (1991)' in Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell (eds), Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort (Hart Publishing 2010)
D P Nolan, 'Offer and Acceptance in the Electronic Age' in Andrew Burrows and Edwin Peel (eds), Contract Formation and Parties (OUP 2010)
D P Nolan and S Bailey, 'The Page v Smith Saga: A Tale of Inauspicious Origins and Unintended Consequences' (2010) 69 Cambridge Law Journal 495
D P Nolan and Alastair Mullis, 'Tort' in All England Law Reports Annual Review 2009 (LexisNexis Butterworths 2010)
2009
D P Nolan, 'Causation and the Goals of Tort Law' in Andrew Robertson and Tang Hang Wu (eds), The Goals of Private Law (Hart Publishing 2009)
D P Nolan and Alastair Mullis, 'Tort' in All England Law Reports Annual Review 2008 (LexisNexis Butterworths 2009)
2008
D P Nolan, 'Hongkong Fir Shipping Co v Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd, The Hongkong Fir (1961)' in Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell (eds), Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract (Hart Publishing 2008)
D P Nolan and Alastair Mullis, 'Tort' in All England Law Reports Annual Review 2007 (LexisNexis Butterworths 2008)
2007
D P Nolan, 'Chapters on Government Liability, Product Liability, Nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher and Fire' in Ken Oliphant (ed), The Law of Tort (2nd edn) (LexisNexis Butterworths 2007)
D P Nolan, 'New Forms of Damage in Negligence' (2007) 70 Modern Law Review 59
D P Nolan and Alastair Mullis, 'Tort' in All England Law Reports Annual Review 2006 (LexisNexis Butterworths 2007)
2006
D P Nolan and Alastair Mullis, 'Tort' in All England Law Reports Annual Review 2005 (LexisNexis Butterworths 2006)
2005
D P Nolan, 'Reforming Liability for Psychiatric Injury in Scotland: a Recipe for Uncertainty?' (2005) 68 Modern Law Review 983 [...]
A paper in the Reports section of the MLR on the Scottish Law Commission's Report on Liability for Psychiatric Injury. In the paper, I summarise the Report and subject it to a detailed critique.
ISBN: 0026-7961
D P Nolan, 'The Distinctiveness of Rylands v Fletcher' (2005) 121 Law Quarterly Review 421
D P Nolan and Alastair Mullis, 'Tort' in All England Law Reports Annual Review 2004 (Butterworths 2005) [...]
A summary of, and critical commentary on, the tort cases published in the All England Law Reports in 2004.
ISBN: 1-405-70360-1
2004
D P Nolan, 'Psychiatric Injury at the Crossroads' (2004) Journal of Personal Injury Law 1 [...]
An overview of the law governing psychiatric injury and an assessment of the options for reform. Commissioned by the journal, which is practitioner-oriented.
ISBN: 1352 7533
D P Nolan, 'Suing the State: Governmental Liability in Comparative Perspective' (2004) 67 Modern Law Review 843 [...]
A review article of Duncan Fairgrieve, State Liability in Tort: A Comparative Law Study. The article considers the current state of governmental liability in English law from three different perspectives (public law, private law, and legal politics), and focuses in particular on the lessons that can be learned from the French law of state liability.
ISBN: 0026 7961
D P Nolan and Alastair Mullis, 'Tort' in All England Law Reports Annual Review 2003 (Butterworths 2004) [...]
A summary of English case law developments in the law of tort in 2003.
ISBN: 406965439
2003
D P Nolan and Alastair Mullis, 'Tort' in All England Law Reports Annual Review 2002 (Butterworths 2003) [...]
summary of the year's tort cases
ISBN: 406965439
2002
D P Nolan, 'Chapters on Government Liability, Product Liability, Nuisance and Rylands v Fletcher and Fire' in Andrew Grubb (ed), The Law of Tort (Butterworths 2002) [...]
in-depth analysis of public authority tort liability for new practitioners' work
ISBN: 406896720
D P Nolan and Alastair Mullis, 'Tort' in All England Law Reports Annual Review 2001 (Butterworths 2002) [...]
summary of the year's tort cases
ISBN: 406950423
2001
D P Nolan, 'Clerk and Lindsell on Torts (18th edn) ' (2001) 6 Construction and Engineering Law 48 [Review]
D P Nolan, 'Risks and Wrongs: Remoteness of Damage in the House of Lords' (2001) 9 Tort Law Review 101 [Case Note]
D P Nolan, 'The Modern Law of Estoppel ' (2001) 15 Trust Law International 59 [Review]
D P Nolan and Alastair Mullis, 'Tort' in All England Law Reports Annual Review 2000 (Butterworths 2001) [...]
summary of the year's tort cases
ISBN: 406940967
2000
D P Nolan, 'Economic Duress and the Availability of a Reasonable Alternative' (2000) Restitution Law Review 105 [Case Note]
D P Nolan, 'Following in their Footsteps: Equitable Estoppel in Australia and the United States' (2000) 11 King's College Law Journal 202
D P Nolan, 'Negligence Liability for Suicides in Custody' (2000) 8 Tort Law Review 91 [Case Note]
D P Nolan and Alastair Mullis, 'Tort' in All England Law Reports Annual Review 1999 (Butterworths 2000)
