Paul S Davies

Fellow and Tutor, St Catherine’s College
Paul read Oriental Studies (Japanese) and then Law at Downing College, Cambridge, and spent a year in Poitiers studying French Law. After graduating, Paul worked in the Property and Trust Law Team at the Law Commission, and was called to the Bar by Lincoln's Inn.
He became a Fellow and College Lecturer in Law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, in 2008, and was also a Newton Trust Lecturer in the Faculty of Law. He joined the Oxford Law Faculty as a CUF Lecturer in April 2013, and is a Fellow of St Catherine's College. Paul's teaching and research interests lie primarily in the law of obligations and property.
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P S Davies, 'Accessory Liability for Assisting Torts' (2011) CLJ 353
P S Davies, 'Accessory Liability: protecting IP rights' [2011] IPQ 390
P S Davies, 'Aid, abet, counsel or procure?' in S Pitel, J Neyers, E Chamberlain (eds), Tort Law: Challenging Orthodoxy (Hart 2013) (forthcoming)
P S Davies, 'Anticipated contracts: room for agreement' (2010) 69 CLJ 467
P S Davies, 'Auditors? Liability: no need to detect fraud?' (2009) 68 CLJ 505 [Case Note]
P S Davies, 'Bank Charges and Unfair Terms' (2008) 67 CLJ 466 [Case Note]
P S Davies, 'Bank charges in the Supreme Court' (2010) 69 CLJ 21 [Case Note]
P S Davies, 'Claims against third parties: room for the common law' [2011] CIPA Journal 362
P S Davies, 'Construing commercial contracts: no need for violence' in M Freeman and F Smith (eds), Law and Language: Current Legal Issues Volume 15 (OUP 2013)
P S Davies, 'Contract and unjust enrichment: a blurry divide' (2010) 126 LQR 175 [Case Note]
P S Davies, 'Correcting mistakes: wither the rule in Hastings-Bass' [2011] Conv 406
P S Davies and G Virgo, Equity and Trusts: Text, Cases, and Materials (OUP 2013)
P S Davies, 'Finding the Limits of Contractual Interpretation' [2009] LMCLQ 420 [Case Note]
P S Davies, 'Injunction' in J McGhee QC (ed), Snell's Equity (32nd edition) (Sweet and Maxwell 2010)
P S Davies, 'Interpreting commercial contracts: a case of ambiguity?' [2012] LMCLQ 26 [Case Note]
P S Davies, 'Interpreting Commercial Contracts: Back to the Top' (2011) 127 LQR 185 [Case Note]
P S Davies, 'Lighting the way ahead: the use and abuse of property rights' in S Bright (ed), Modern Studies in Property Law - Volume 6 (Hart 2011)
P S Davies, 'Making mistakes' (2012) 24 NLSIR 97
P S Davies, 'Negotiating the boundaries of admissibility' (2011) 70 CLJ 24 [Case Note]
P S Davies, 'No leapfrogging of contract in unjust enrichment' (2012) 71 CLJ 37 [Case Note]
P S Davies, 'Recent Developments in the Law of Implied Terms' [2010] LMCLQ 140
P S Davies and J O'Sullivan, 'Rectification' in J McGhee QC (ed), Snell's Equity (32nd edition) (Sweet and Maxwell 2010)
P S Davies, 'Rectifying the course of rectification' (2012) 75 MLR 412
P S Davies, 'Registered charges in the contractual matrix' (2013) 129 LQR 24 [Case Note]
P S Davies and P Turner, 'Relief against penalties without a breach of contract' (2013) 72 CLJ 20 [Case Note]
P S Davies, 'Review of Michael Furmston and GJ Tolhurst, "Contract Formation: Law and Practice" (OUP 2010)' (2011) 70 CLJ 470 [Review]
P S Davies, 'Review of Qiao Liu, "Anticipatory Breach" (Hart, 2011)' [2011] LMCLQ 496 [Review]
P S Davies, 'Review of Rebecca Williams, "Unjust enrichment and public law" (Hart, 2010)' (2011) 127 LQR 483 [Review]
P S Davies, 'Risk in unjust enrichment' [2012] RLR 27
P S Davies and P Rogerson, 'Swaps in another dimension' [2010] LMCLQ 529 [Case Note]
P S Davies, 'The illegality defence ? two steps forward, one step back?' [2009] Conv 182
P S Davies, 'The Illegality Defence and Public Policy' (2009) 125 LQR 556 [Case Note]
P S Davies, 'The illegality defence: turning back the clock' [2010] Conv 282

