Alexander Georgiou

Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) in Law - All Souls College, University of Oxford (2020–present)

2019 - 2020 Bar Professional Training Course (Distinction) - BPP London

Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) (Distinction) - Brasenose College, University of Oxford (2018–2019)

Temple Chambers (Hong Kong) scholarship.

Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Jurisprudence (First Class Honours) - Brasenose College, University of Oxford (2014–2017) 

Incepted as a Master of Arts in 2021

Prizes and awards:

• Martin Wronker Prize for best overall performance (received jointly).
• Gibbs Prize (Proxime Accessit) for second-best overall performance in the Contract, Tort, Trusts, and Land papers (received jointly).
• 3 Verulam Buildings Prize for best performance in the Commercial Law paper.
• White & Case Prize for best performance in the Comparative Private Law paper.

Prize Fellow 

All Souls College, University of Oxford (2019–present)

Lectures:

• Declarations of trust, formalities, and constitution (for BA students) (2023–2024).
• Termination of contract for breach and for frustration (for BA students) (2021–2024).
  

Graduate (BCL/MJur) seminars and tutorials:

• Commercial Remedies (2020–2024).
• Restitution of Unjust Enrichment (2021–2023).
  

Undergraduate (BA) tutorials and classes:

• Contract law (2020–2023, for Jesus College).
• Tort law (2021–2023, for Jesus College).
• Trusts (2019–2022, for University College).
• Land law (2020–2021, for University College).
  

Other responsibilities (University-based):

Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal (2020–2022).

Convenor of the Obligations Discussion Group (2020–2022).

• Academic Fellow of the EW Barker Centre for Law and Business, National University of Singapore (2024–present). 
• Elected to Prize Fellowship at All Souls College, University of Oxford (2019)
• Temple Chambers (Hong Kong) BCL scholarship, University of Oxford (2018)
• Martin Wronker Prize for best overall performance in BA (Jurisprudence), University of Oxford (2017)
• Gibbs Prize (Proxime Accessit) for second-best overall performance in the Contract, Tort, Trusts, and Land papers during BA (Jurisprudence), University of Oxford (2017).
• 3 Verulam Buildings Prize for best performance in the BA (Jurisprudence) Commercial Law paper, University of Oxford (2017).
• White & Case Prize for best performance in the BA (Jurisprudence) Comparative Private Law paper, University of Oxford (2017).

Chapters

• ‘Statutory trusts and co-ownership’ in Martin Dixon and Emma Lees (eds), Modern Studies in Property Law vol. 15 (Hart Publishing 2025) (with Professor William Swadling) (forthcoming).
• ‘Remedies and the public interest’ in Andrew Robertson et al. (eds), Private Law and the State (Hart Publishing 2024) (with Professor Sandy Steel) (forthcoming).
  

Articles

• ‘Making contract-breakers pay’ (2025) Law Quarterly Review (forthcoming).
• ‘Mistaken payments, quasi-contracts, and the “justice” of unjust enrichment’ (2022) 42 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 606.
• ‘Taking trusts seriously’ (2021) 137 Law Quarterly Review 305.
  

Case notes

• ‘Property damage, remoteness, and consequential contractual liabilities’ [2024] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 386.
• ‘Knowing receipt: continuing trusts and conscionability’ (2022) 86 Modern Law Review 276.
• ‘Between rocks and hard places: limitation, privilege, and mistakes of law’ (2022) 138 Law Quarterly Review 535 (with Emma Rawkins)
• ‘Interest and enrichment, again’ (2022) 138 Law Quarterly Review 186 (with Emma Rawkins).
• ‘What’s “unjust” about unjust enrichment: an answer at last?’ [2021] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 63.
• ‘In defence of Sempra’ [2019] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 38.
• ‘Marr v Collie: The ballooning of the common intention constructive trust’ (2019) 82 Modern Law Review 145.
• Cited in Banca Intesa Sanpaolo Spa v Comune di Venezia [2022] EWHC 2586 (Comm) at [395].

Book reviews

• ‘Review of Standing in Private Law: Powers of Enforcement in the Law of Obligations and Trusts by Timothy Liau’ (2024) 83 Cambridge Law Journal 184.
• Conference presentations etc.
• ‘Two conceptions of consideration’ (London School of Economics Private Law Research Group, London, 2 May 2024). 
• ‘Statutory trusts and co-ownership’ (15th Modern Studies in Property Law conference, Cambridge, 25–28 March 2024).
• ‘Two conceptions of consideration’ (Hong Kong University ‘Private Law and Theory Speaker Series’, Hong Kong, 11–15 March 2024).
• ‘Making contract-breakers pay’ (Hong Kong University ‘Private Law and Theory Speaker Series’, Hong Kong, 11–15 March 2024).
• ‘Making contract breakers pay’ (Global Seminars in Private Law Theory, online, 23 November 2023).
• ‘Remedies and the public interest’ (Obligations X conference, Banff, 11–14 July 2023) (with Professor Sandy Steel).
• ‘Remedies and the public interest’ (Oxford Private Law Research Group workshop, Oxford, 20 June 2022) (with Professor Sandy Steel).

Chinese: Conversational in both Mandarin and Cantonese; equivalent reading and writing.