Dr Frederick Wilmot-Smith

MA, BCL, MPhil, DPhil

Law

Fifty-Pound Fellow since 2019

Fred is a Fifty-Pound Fellow in Law, elected in 2019. He was an Examination Fellow from 2011 to 2018. His principal research interests concern the law of obligations and the structure of legal institutions.

Research Areas

Law of Obligations

Structure of Legal Systems - including Topics Such as Legal Aid

Selected Publications

Equal Justice: Fair Legal Institutions in an Unfair World

(Harvard University Press, 2019)

Term Limits: What is a Term? Oxford Journal of Legal Studies

(2019)

‘Termination After Breach’

Law Quarterly Review 2018, 134 (Apr), 307-325

‘Should the Payee Pay?’

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, (2017) 37(4), p. 844-861

Reconsidering "Total" Failure (2013) 72(2)

Cambridge Law Journal 414.

Background

Eldon Scholar (2017)
Examination Fellow, All Souls College (from 2011 to 2018)
Vinerian Scholar (2010)
Postgraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 2009 to 2011)
Undergraduate, Christ's College, Cambridge (from 2005 to 2009)