Dr Alexander Georgiou

Dr Alexander Georgiou

Law
Examination Fellow since 2019

Alexander Georgiou is a Prize Fellow at All Souls College. He has broad research interests across the laws of contract, tort, trusts, and unjust enrichment. He is 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. Alex read for the BA in Jurisprudence (2014–2017) at Brasenose College, Oxford, for which he received the Martin Wronker Prize for the best performance in FHS. Following his undergraduate studies, he returned to Brasenose to read for the Bachelor of Civil Law (2018–2019) as a Temple Chambers scholar, following which he completed his doctoral research at All Souls College (2020–2024). He currently also holds a position as an Academic Fellow of the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business at the National University of Singapore, and is a barrister at One Essex Court.

Research Areas
Remedies
Unjust Enrichment
Contract
Tort
Trusts
Jurisprudence.

Selected Publications

‘Are equitable remedies discretionary?'

(2025) 18 Journal of Equity 246 (with Dr Timothy Liau)

'Making contract-breakers pay’

(2025) 141 Law Quarterly Review 104.

‘The market rule and late performance’

(2025) Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 423

‘Remedies and the public interest’

in Andrew Robertson and Jason Neyers (eds), Private Law and the State (Hart Publishing 2024) (with Professor Sandy Steel)

‘Mistaken payments, quasi-contracts, and the “justice” of unjust enrichment’

(2022) 42 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 606

‘Between rocks and hard places: limitation, privilege, and mistakes of law’

(2022) 138 Law Quarterly Review 535 (with Emma Rawkins)