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Timothy Liau (pronounced lee-ow) is Assistant Professor of Law at the LSE Law School. He was previously Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and prior to that Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Merton College, University of Oxford. He holds an LLB from NUS where he was top First and Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medallist. He did his postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar and Graduate Prize Scholar at Merton College, where he read for the Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL), MPhil, and DPhil, while also teaching Commercial Remedies on the BCL.
Timothy’s main research interests are in remedies, contracts, unjust enrichment, and foundational questions about private law’s basic concepts and structure. His book Standing in Private Law (OUP 2023) won the Society of Legal Scholars’ Peter Birks prize in 2024, summaries of which are available here. His research has been cited by courts around the world, including the High Court of Australia, Singapore High Court and Court of Appeal, and in leading practitioner treatises like Goff & Jones on Unjust Enrichment, Lewin on Trusts, and Chitty on Contracts.
He co-convenes the ‘Remedies and Restitution’ section of the Society of Legal Scholars’ annual conference. He remains an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow (EWB Centre for Law & Business) and Associate Academic Fellow (Centre for Legal Theory) at the National University of Singapore. Draft papers can be found on SSRN.
A list of publications can be found here.
Research
Remedies, Contracts, Unjust Enrichment, and foundational questions about private law ("Private Law Theory").
I have written on topics like contractual interpretation, misrepresentation, no-oral-modification clauses, specific performance and equitable discretion, privity of contract, punishment, and proprietary restitution.
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