Alexander Georgiou
BCL, MA
Examination Fellow since 2019
My research spans doctrinal and philosophical concepts in private law. I have broad research interests across the laws of contract, tort, trusts, and unjust enrichment. I am particularly interested in the remedial aspects of private law, as well as the intersection of linguistics and law, and wider questions of moral and political philosophy in the context of the law and civil justice systems.
- Postgraduate (DPhil) at All Souls College, Oxford (from 2020 to 2024)
- Postgraduate (BPTC) at BPP University, London (from 2019 to 2020)
- Postgraduate (BCL) at Brasenose College, Oxford (from 2018 to 2019)
- Undergraduate (BA, Jurisprudence) at Brasenose College, Oxford (from 2014 to 2017)
- The law of obligations
- The law of trusts
Chapters
- ‘Statutory trusts and co-ownership’ in Martin Dixon and Emma Lees (eds), Modern Studies in Property Law vol. 15 (Hart Publishing 2025) (with Professor William Swadling) (forthcoming).
- ‘Remedies and the public interest’ in Andrew Robertson and Jason Neyers (eds), Private Law and the State (Hart Publishing 2024) (with Professor Sandy Steel).
Articles
- ‘Are equitable remedies discretionary?’ (2025) 18 Journal of Equity 246 (with Dr Timothy Liau).
- ‘Making contract-breakers pay’ (2025) 141 Law Quarterly Review 104.
- ‘Mistaken payments, quasi-contracts, and the “justice” of unjust enrichment’ (2022) 42 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 606.
- ‘Taking trusts seriously’ (2021) 137 Law Quarterly Review 305.
Case notes
- ‘Property damage, remoteness, and consequential contractual liabilities’ [2024] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 386.
- ‘Knowing receipt: continuing trusts and conscionability’ (2022) 86 Modern Law Review 276.
- ‘Between rocks and hard places: limitation, privilege, and mistakes of law’ (2022) 138 Law Quarterly Review 535 (with Emma Rawkins)
- ‘Interest and enrichment, again’ (2022) 138 Law Quarterly Review 186 (with Emma Rawkins).
- ‘What’s “unjust” about unjust enrichment: an answer at last?’ [2021] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 63.
- ‘In defence of Sempra’ [2019] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 38.
- ‘Marr v Collie: The ballooning of the common intention constructive trust’ (2019) 82 Modern Law Review 145.
Book reviews
- ‘Review of Standing in Private Law: Powers of Enforcement in the Law of Obligations and Trusts by Timothy Liau’ (2024) 83 Cambridge Law Journal 184.
- Academic Fellow of the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business, National University of Singapore (2024–present).
- Contract (FHS).
- Tort (FHS).
- Trusts (FHS).
- Restitution of Unjust Enrichment (BCL/MJur).
- Commercial Remedies (BCL/MJur).
- Temple Chambers BCL Scholar (2018).
- Martin Wronker Prize (2017).
- Gibbs Prize, Proxime Accessit (2017).