Leonardo Antonelli

Leo is a DPhil student at Balliol College, supervised by Professor Robert Stevens. His doctoral research investigates the problem of ‘concurrency’ in private law – that is, the situation in which a single set of facts gives rise to two or more, possibly conflicting, legal responses. Because this problem cuts across private law, the relevant cases have resisted systemisation. His DPhil thesis aims to remedy this deficiency and to articulate what rules do, and should, govern the interaction between concurrent legal responses. The doctorate is supported by Balliol’s McDougall Scholarship.

Before coming to Oxford, he read law at King’s College London. He also holds a BCL from the University of Oxford, during which he was the Marchand Legacy–Helena Kennedy Scholar at Mansfield College, and was awarded the John Gardner Prize for Philosophical Foundations of the Common Law. 

Leo is currently a Stipendiary Lecturer at The Queen’s College, Oxford, where he teaches a range of private law subjects – namely Land Law, Contract Law, and Trusts – and assists in the delivery of the Jurisprudence paper. He has previously taught Tort and Trusts at St Edmund Hall and Jesus College, Oxford. 

At the Faculty, he co-convenes the Obligations Discussion Group.