Biography
Roderick Bagshaw is Tutor and Fellow in Law at Magdalen College and an Professor in the Faculty of Law. He teaches undergraduate courses in Administrative Law and Tort Law, and on the postgraduate BCL Private Law and Fundamental Rights course. He is the co-author, with Nicholas J. McBride, of a textbook on Tort Law (6th ed, 2018) and responsible for writing chapters in Phipson on Evidence and Clerk and Lindsell on Torts. He was formerly on the Executive Committee of the Society of Legal Scholars and the Convenor of the Society's Tort Law Subject Section.
Previous posts:
Fellow of Mansfield College 1994-2002.
Lecturer, Jesus College, 1992-94.
Publications
BAGSHAW R, ‘Private Nuisance: The UK Supreme Court Take a View’ [2023] Journal of Tort Law
Bagshaw R, ‘Lord Hoffmann and the Economic Torts’
Bagshaw R, ‘Monetary Remedies in Public Law – Misdiagnosis and Misprescription’ (2006) 26(1) Legal Studies 4
Bagshaw R, ‘Children As Actionable Damage’ (2004) 15 King’s College Law Journal 117
Bagshaw R, ‘Children through Tort’
J McBride N and Bagshaw R, Tort Law (6th edition) (Pearson 2018)
McBride N and Bagshaw R, Tort Law (Pearson 2015) lii + 926 + bibliography + ind
J McBride N and Bagshaw R, Tort Law (Fourth edition) (Pearson 2012)
J McBride N and Bagshaw R, Tort Law (Third edition) (Pearson Longman 2008) lviii + 847pp
McBride N and Bagshaw R, Tort Law, Second Edition (Pearson Education 2005) 864
BAGSHAW R, ‘Ch. 2, "Causation and Remoteness: General Principles"; Ch.7, "Negligence"; Ch.23, "Economic Torts"’ in A Tettenborn (ed.), CLERK & LINDSELL ON TORTS. (Sweet & Maxwell 2023)
BAGSHAW R, ‘Rookes’ Tale’, Landmark Cases in Labour Law (Hart Publishing 2022)
Bagshaw R, ‘Product Liability: Autonomous Ships’ in Soyer,,rew Tettenborn, Baris (ed.), Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Shipping: Developing the International Legal Framework (Hart Publishing 2021)
Bagshaw R, ‘Ch. 23, Economic Torts,’ in M Jones (ed.), Clerk and Lindsell on Torts, 23rd edn (Sweet & Maxwell 2020)
Bagshaw R, ‘Ch 7 Relevance, Etc, Ch 14 Corroboration, Etc, Ch 15 Identification and Ch 16 Physical Conditions, Etc’ in H Malek (ed.), Phipson on Evidence (Nineteenth edition) (Sweet & Maxwell 2018)
BAGSHAW R, ‘Lord Hoffmann and the Economic Torts’ in P Davies and J Pila (eds.), The Jurisprudence of Lord Hoffmann (Bloomsbury 2015)
BAGSHAW R, ‘Balancing Defences’ in A Dyson, J GOUDKAMP and F WILMOT-SMITH (eds.), Defences in Tort (Bloomsbury 2015)
Bagshaw R, ‘The Animals Act 1971’ in T Arvind and J Steele (eds.), Tort Law and the Legislature (Hart Publishing 2013)
Bagshaw R, ‘The Edges of Tort Law’s Rights’ in D Nolan and A Robertson (eds.), Rights and Private Law (Hart Publishing 2011)
Bagshaw R, ‘Causing the Behaviour of Others and Other Causal Mixtures’ in R Goldberg (ed.), Perspectives on Causation (Hart Publishing 2011)
Bagshaw R, ‘Tort Design and Human Rights Thinking’, The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law (2011)
Bagshaw R, ‘Tort Law, Concepts and What Really Matters’ in A Robertson and T Hang Wu (eds.), The Goals of Private Law (Hart Publishing 2009)
Bagshaw R, ‘Behavioural Science Data in Evidence Teaching and Scholarship’ in P Roberts and M Redmayne (eds.), Innovations in Evidence and Proof (Hart Publishing 2007)
Bagshaw R, ‘Chapters On: ’Relevance, Admissibility and Weight; Previous and Subsequent Existence of Facts; The Best Evidence Rule’; ’Corroboration, Supporting Evidence and Related Warnings’; ’Identification’; ’Physical Conditions, States of Mind and Emotions’’ in H M Malek (ed.), Phipson on Evidence, Sixteenth edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2005)
Bagshaw R, ‘Downloading Torts: An English Introduction to On-Line Torts’ in H Snijders and S Weatherill (eds.), E-Commerce Law (Kluwer Law International 2003)
Bagshaw R, ‘Legal Proof of Knowledge’ in Mirfield and R Smith (eds.), Essays for Colin Tapper (LexisNexis Butterworths 2003)
Bagshaw R, ‘The Development of Traffic Liability in England and Wales’ in W Ernst (ed.), The Development of Traffic Liability, Volume 5 (Cambridge University Press)
Bagshaw R, ‘Modernising the Doctor’s Duty to Disclose Risks of Treatment’ [2016] (132) Law Quarterly Review 182 (case-note)
Bagshaw R, ‘Unauthorized Wedding Photographs’ (2005) 121 Law Quarterly Review 550 (case-note)
Bagshaw R, ‘Private Nuisance and Defence of the Realm’ (2004) 120 Law Quarterly Review 37 (case-note)
Bagshaw R, ‘Rylands Confined’ (2004) 120 Law Quarterly Review 388 (case-note)