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Alex joined the LSE as an Assistant Professor in 2022. He researches and teaches all aspects of private law, but is particularly interested in property, tort and restitution. His PhD thesis concerned the doctrinal and normative foundations of rules of English law which govern the creation of new property rights. The thesis was awarded a Yorke Prize by the University of Cambridge, in recognition of its exceptional quality. Some of that research was also published as an article in the 2021 Modern Law Review, for which Alex was awarded the Wedderburn Prize. He is currently working on papers relating to remedies in tort, the nature of bailment, and methodology in private law theory.
Before coming to the LSE, Alex was a fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge, and studied Law at Cambridge (BA, PhD) and Oxford (BCL).
Research
Research Interests
Private Law
Publications
- ‘What’s the Point of Proprietary Estoppel?’ in L Graham and J Russell (eds), Private Law and The UK Supreme Court (Routledge 2025)
- ‘The Nature and Justification of Possessory Title’ (2025) 84 Cambridge Law Journal 431
- ‘Remoteness in the Supreme Court’ (2024) 140 LQR 502
- ‘Property & Tort’ in W Day and JAW Grower (eds), Borderlines in Private Law (Oxford University Press 2024)
- 'Specificatio's Raw Materials' (2024) 140 LQR 85
- 'Promises in Equity and at Law: Proprietary Estoppel after Guest v Guest' (2023) 86 Modern Law Review 1504
- 'Sorting Out Mixtures of Property at Common Law' (2021) 84(1) MLR 61
- 'Form and Substance in the Law of Obligations' [2021] CLJ 187 (Book review)
- 'An Expressive Theory of Possession' (2021) 84(4) MLR 923 (Book review)