Dori Kimel
Reader in Legal Philosophy

Biography
Dori Kimel is Fellow and Senior Law Tutor at New College. Having completed his D.Phil he took up a lectureship at University College London, then returned to Oxford to take up a Fellowship at New College in 2001. His teaching and research interests are in legal, moral and political philosophy, criminal law, and contract law theory. Amongst his publications is the book From Promise to Contract: Towards a Liberal Theory of Contract (Oxford 2003).
Publications
Kimel D, “The Choice Theory of Contract. By Hanoch Dagan and Michael Heller. [Cambridge University Press, 2017. Xiv + 180 Pp. Hardback £80.00. ISBN 978-11-07135-98-7.]” (2019) 78 Cambridge Law Journal 202
Kimel D, “Promise, Contract, Personal Autonomy, and the Freedom to Change One’s Mind” [2013] Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper
Kimel D, “The Morality of Contract and Moral Culpability in Breach” (2010) 21 King’s Law Journal 213
Kimel D, “The Choice of Paradigm for Theory of Contract: Reflections on the Relational Model” (2007) 27 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 233
Kimel D, “Inadvertent Recklessness in Criminal Law” (2004) 120 Law Quarterly Review 548
Kimel D, “Remedial Rights and Substantive Rights in Contract Law” (2002) 8 Legal Theory 313
Kimel D, “Neutrality, Autonomy, and Freedom of Contract” (2001) 21 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 473
Kimel D, De La Promesa Al Contrato Hacia Una teoría Liberal Del Contrato (2018)
Kimel D, “Personal Freedom and the Protection of the Weak through the Lens of Contract: Jurisprudential Overview”, GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF LAW: EUROPEAN AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES (2017)
Kimel D, “Preface to the Spanish Edition: Why Should We Be Interested in the Philosophy of Contract?”, From Contract to Promise (Spanish Edition) (Hart Publishing 2016)
Kimel D, “Personal Autonomy and Change of Mind in Promise and in Contract” in G Klass, G Letsas and P Saprai (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law (Oxford Univeristy Press 2014)
Kimel D, “Fault and Harm in Breach of Contract”, Fault in American Contract Law (2010)