Dr Dr Rachel Leow

Rachel Leow (pronounced lee-ow) is an Associate Professor of Law. She joined the LSE Law School in Sep 2022. Rachel is a private lawyer whose main research expertise and interests span three broad areas: agency law, the law of unjust enrichment and restitution, and trusts and commercial equity. She also has a special interest in corporate attribution in private law, the subject-matter of her doctorate and first monograph, Corporate Attribution in Private Law (Hart Publishing 2022). Her work has been cited with approval by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, High Court of Australia, and the Singapore Court of Appeal.

Much of her work thus far has centred around one core question: why, how, and when do people act for or on behalf of another in private law? Currently, she is working on projects on mental incapacity and minority in private law, apparent authority, the liability of principals for torts of their agents, and the Partnership Act 1890.

Before coming to the LSE, Rachel was Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, where she also read law as an undergraduate (LLB). She then moved to the University of Cambridge, where she completed her LLM and PhD at Downing College. At Cambridge, she won the Gareth Jones Prize for the Law of Restitution with the then-highest mark on record. She also won the Chancellor’s Medal for English Law, which is awarded to a candidate of exceptional merit in English law. At NUS, she won the university-wide University Annual Teaching Excellence Award once and the Faculty of Law Annual Teaching Excellence Award twice.

At the LSE, Rachel is currently Chair of the LLM Exam Sub-Board.