Jordan English

Jordan is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and a Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College. He teaches Contract, Land Law, and A Roman Introduction to Private Law at the undergraduate level and teaches Commercial Remedies and Restitution of Unjust Enrichment on the BCL/MJur. He has also taught Trusts and Tort. 

Jordan's research focuses on private law, with a particular emphasis on contract law and property law. He is (i) the author of Discharge of Contractual Obligations (Oxford University Press, 2025), which was the 2025 winner of the SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Early Career Scholarship, (ii) the co-author of the The Law of Tracing (Federation Press, 2021), (iii) the co-editor of Issues on the Law of Rescission (Oxford University Press, 2026), and (iv) a co-author of Federal Proceeds of Crime Law (Thomson Reuters, 2024). His research has been cited widely, including by the United Kingdom Supreme Court, the England and Wales High Court (Commercial Court), the Inner House of the Court of Session, the High Court of Australia, the New South Wales Court of Appeal, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the Supreme Court of Queensland, and the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. 

Alongside his positions in Oxford, Jordan is an Associate Member of 3 Verulam Buildings, an Academic Fellow of Middle Temple, and an academic member of the Chancery Bar Association. He also has strong connections with Hong Kong, in which capacity he is the Cheng Yu Tung Residence Fellow at the University of Hong Kong (where he previously was the Des Voeux Chambers Oxford-HKU Visiting Fellow) and an Academic Associate at Des Voeux Chambers. 

Jordan completed a DPhil in Law and obtained a Bachelor of Civil Law (Dist) from the University of Oxford. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons I, Medal) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Queensland. Prior to his academic career, Jordan worked as a solicitor in dispute resolution at King and Wood Mallesons and as an Associate to Justice James Edelman at the High Court of Australia. 

Jordan is also the Law Faculty's Mooting Coordinator and the Chair of Governors of Magdalen College School, Brackley.