Edwin Simpson
Associate Professor of Law
Biography
Edwin Simpson (BCL 1989, MA 1990) is an Official Student (or Tutor) in Law at Christ Church, and the Barclays Bank Lecturer in Taxation in the University. He is a barrister and member of Lincoln's Inn.
His interests focus around theories of the public sphere and of property, and naturally meet in topics such as trusts law, jurisprudence, highway law, and the law of taxation.
He teaches Trusts, Jurisprudence, and Taxation Law (FHS); and Trusts and Global Wealth Taxation (BCL/MJur/MLF).
Publications
Simpson E, ‘Five Lectures on the Common Law With Comparative Reference to the Law of China: Lecture Five, Common Law and Taxation’ [2015] Tsinghua China L. Rev. 109
Simpson E, ‘The Ramsay Principle: A Curious Incident of Judicial Reticence?’ [2004] British Tax Review 358
Simpson E, ‘""As of right"": All in the Mind?’ [1998] The Conveyancer 442
Simpson E, Sham Transactions (M Stewart and E Simpson eds., OUP 2013)
Simpson E, Lewin on Trusts (Mowbray, Tucker, L Poidevin, and others eds., Thomson Sweet & Maxwell 2008)
Simpson E, Mowbray QC J, Tucker L, and others, Lewin on Trusts, First Supplement to the Seventeenth Edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2003) i
Simpson E, Lewin on Trusts (Mowbray, Tucker, L Poidevin, and others eds., Sweet & Maxwell 2000)
SIMPSON E, ‘Should the Suggestion That Ownership Is a ’myth’ Have Any Implications for the Structure of Tax Law?’ in G LOUTZENHISER and R DE LA FERIA (eds.), The Dynamics of Taxation: Essays in Honour of Judith Freedman (Hart Publishing 2020)
Simpson E and Peacock I, ‘Exempt Information’ in J Macdonald QC and R Crail (eds.), Macdonald on the Law of Freedom of Information, 3rd edition (OUP 2016)
Simpson E, ‘Is There a Role for a European Principle Prohibiting Abuse of Law in in the Field of Personal Taxation?’ in R de la Feria and S Vogenauer (eds.), Prohibition of Abuse of Law (Hart Publishing, Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law 2011)
Simpson E and Peacock I, ‘Exempt Information’ in Macdonald, Crail and Jones (eds.), The Law of Freedom of Information, 2nd edition (OUP 2009)
Simpson E, ‘Making Sense of the Ramsay Principle: A Novel Role for Public Law?’ in J Auby and M R. Freedland (eds.), The Public Law/Private Law Divide: une entente assez cordiale (Hart Publishing 2006)
Simpson E and Peacock I, ‘Exempt Information’ in Macdonald and Jones (eds.), The Law of Freedom of Information (OUP 2003)
Simpson E and McFarlane B, ‘Tackling Avoidance’ in J Getzler (ed.), Rationalizing Property, Equity and Trusts - Essays in Honour of Edward Burn (OUP 2003)
Simpson E, ‘Conflicts’ in P Birks and A Pretto (eds.), Breach of Trust (Hart Publishing 2002)
Simpson E, ‘Part Three: Trusts and Taxation’ in Megarry and Burn (eds.), Trusts and Trustees: Cases and Materials, 6th edn, (Butterworths Lexis-Nexis 2002)
Simpson E, ‘On the Nature of Resulting Trusts: The Vandervell Litigation Revisited’ in Birks and Rose (eds.), Restitution and Equity Vol 1: Resulting Trusts and Equitable Compensation (LLP Mansfield Press 2000)
Simpson E, ‘The Golden Metwand and the Crooked Cord: Essays on Public Law in Honour of Sir William Wade QC’ [1999] Law Quarterly Review 160 (review)
Simpson E, ‘Paterson V Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2010] EWHC 394 (Admin)’ [2010] RWLR (case-note)
Simpson E, ‘DPP V Jones Gains Ground’ (2004) 38018 Rights of Way Law Review 55 (case-note)
Simpson E, ‘Capital Gains Tax’ (2008) OUP 99
Simpson E, ‘Taxation of Trusts’ (2008) 1156