Mindy Chen-Wishart
Emeritus Professor of the Law of Contract
Other affiliations
Institute of European and Comparative Law
Biography
Mindy Chen-Wishart is an Emeritus Professor of the Law of Contract at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow in Law at Merton College, and was the Dean of the Faculty of Law until 30 September 2023.
She was formerly a Senior Lecturer at Otago University in New Zealand and a Rhodes Visiting Research Fellow at St. Hilda's College. She has taught Contract, Restitution, Torts and Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Consumer Protection Law and Introduction to Law. She is involved in graduate teaching in Philosophical Foundations of the Common Law and Private Law and Fundamental Rights. She is author of Contract Law (7th ed), an editor of Chitty on Contracts (currently in its 35th ed), is co-editing a Handbook on Contract Theory, and is leading a series titled Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia, published with OUP; volumes I-IV are published. She has held Visiting Professorships in Asia, Australasia and Europe. She delivered the Fourth Annual International and Comparative Quarterly Lecture as author of the best paper in 2013, has lectured to the Judicial College in the UK, Hong Kong and Taiwan. She is Provost's Professor at the National University of Singapore.
Publications
Chen-Wishart M and Wu Y-C, ‘Contract Law in Japan’ (2021) 70(2) INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE LAW QUARTERLY 529
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Contractual Remedies: Beyond Enforcing Contractual Duties’ (2017) 85(6) GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 1617
Chen-Wishart M, ‘In defence of consideration’ (2013) 13(1) Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 209
Chen-Wishart M and Magnus U, ‘Termination, Price Reduction, and Damages’ 647
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Legal Transplant and Undue Influence: Lost in Translation or a Working Misunderstanding’ (2013) 62(Jan) International and Comparative Law Quarterly
Chen-Wishart M, ‘The Purposes and Methods of English Contract Law’ (2011) 12 Peking University Law Review 681
Chen-Wishart M, ‘A Bird in the Hand: Consideration and One-Sided Contract Modifications’
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Transparency and Fairness in Bank Charges’ (2010) 126 Law Quarterly Review 157
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Objectivity and Mistake: The Oxymoron of Smith v. Hughes’
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Bank Charges: A Lesson in Interpreting EC Law’ (2009) 125 Law Quarterly Review 389
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Unfairness of Bank Charges’ (2008) 124 Law Quarterly Review 561
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Undue Influence Vindicating Relationships of Influence’ [2007] OUP 231
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘Unjust Factors and the Restitutionary Response’ (2000) 20(4) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 557
Chen-Wishart M, ‘In Defence of Unjust Factors: A Comparative Study of Duress, Fraud and Exploitation’ [2000] Oxford University Comparative Law Forum
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Restitutionary Damages for Breach of Contract’
Chen-Wishart M, ‘The O’Brien Principle and Substantive Unfairness’ (1997) 56(1) The Cambridge Law Journal 60
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Undue Influence, Manifest Disadvantage and Loss Apportionment’ (1994) 110 Law Quarterly Review 173
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Loss Sharing, Undue Influence and Manifest Disadvantage’
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘Creditors Beware’ [1993] Property Review
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Taking Securities, Taking Advantage’ [1993] New Zealand Law Journal 224
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Creditors Beware II’ (1993) 2 Property Review 499
Chen-Wishart M, ‘The Enforceability of Additional Contractual Promises: A Question of Consideration?’
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Unconscionable Bargains’
Chen-Wishart M, ‘The Contractual Mistakes Act 1977 and Contract Formation’ [1986] Otago Law Review 334=354
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Consideration and Serious Intention’
CHEN-WISHART M, Contract Law 7th edition (Oxford University Press 2022)
Chen-Wishart M, Vogenauer S and Beale H, Contents of Contracts and Unfair Terms (2020) 1
Chen-Wishart M, Contract Law, 6th edition (Oxford University Press 2018) 623
Chen-Wishart M, Contract Law 5th edition (Oxford University Press 2015)
Chen-Wishart M, Contract Law 4th edition (Oxford University Press 2012)
Chen-Wishart M, Contract and Reciprocity: The Hochelaga Annual Lectures of the Hong Kong University Law Faculty (Hochelaga 2011)
Chen-Wishart M, Contract Law, 3rd edition (Oxford University Press 2010)
Chen-Wishart M, Contract Law, 2nd ed (Oxford University Press 2008)
Chen-Wishart M, Contract Law 1st edition (Oxford University Press 2005)
Chen-Wishart M, Beatson J and Schrage E, Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe: Cases, Materials and Texts on Unjustified Enrichment (Hart Publishing 2003)
Chen-Wishart M, Unconscionable Bargain (Butterworths 1989)
CHEN-WISHART M and Hughes E, ‘Monism and Pluralism in restitution for unjust Enrichment’ in S Peari and W Swain (eds.), Rethinking Unjust Enrichment: History, Sociology, Doctrine & Theory (Oxford University Press 2024)
CHEN-WISHART M and Gardner J, ‘Schrödinger’s Lawful Act Duress: Dead or Alive’ in R Probert and E Peel (eds.), Festschrift for Ewan McKendrick (2023)
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘Why Consideration?’ in M CHEN-WISHART and P Saprai (eds.), Handbook in Contract Theory (Edward Elgar 2023)
CHEN-WISHART M and Dixon V, ‘Good Faith’ in M CHEN-WISHART and P Saprai (eds.), Handbook in Contract Theory (Edward Elgar 2023)
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘Action for the Agreed Sum, Specific Performance and Injunction’ in H Beale (ed.), Chitty on Contract, 35th Edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2023)
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘Duress, Undue Influence and Unconscionable Dealing’ in H Beale (ed.), Chitty on Contracts, 35th Edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2023)
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘The Agreement’ in H Beale (ed.), Chitty on Contracts, 35th Edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2023)
Chen-Wishart M, Sono H and Vogenauer S, ‘Introduction’, Invalidity (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2022)
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘2022 supplements to Chapters 4, 10, and 27’ in H Beale (ed.), Chitty on Contracts, 34th Edition (2021)
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘Action for the Agreed Sum, Specific Performance and Injunction’ in H Beale (ed.), Chitty on Contracts, 34th Edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2021)
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘Duress, Undue Influence and Unconscionable Dealing’ in H Beale (ed.), Chitty on Contracts, 34th Edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2021)
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘The Agreement’ in H Beale (ed.), Chitty on Contracts, 34th Edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2021)
Chen-Wishart M and Vogenauer S, ‘Introduction’, Contents of Contracts and Unfair Terms (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2020)
CHEN-WISHART M and Dixon V, ‘’Humble Good Faith: 3 by 4’’ in PB Miller and J Oberdiek (eds.), Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, Vol 1 (Oxford University Press 2020)
CHEN-WISHART M and Williams A, ‘Affirmative Duties in Vitiated Consent Transactions’ in E Bant and J Paterson (eds.), Misleading Silence (Hart Publishing 2020)
CHEN-WISHART M and Gregson R, ‘Impaired Intention Unjust Factors?’ in E Bant, K Barker and S Degeling (eds.), Research Handbook on Unjust Enrichment and Restitution (Edward Elgar Publishing 2020)
Chen-Wishart M, Vogenauer S and Loke A, ‘Introduction’ in M Chen-Wishart, S Vogenauer and A Loke (eds.), Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia Vol 2: Formation and Parties (Oxford University Press 2018)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘2019 supplement to chapters 2, 8, and 27’ in H Beale (ed.), Chitty on Contracts, 33rd Edition, Vol 1 (Sweet & Maxwell 2018)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Action for the Agreed Sum, Specific Performance and Injunction’ in H Beale (ed.), Chitty on Contracts, 33rd Edition, Vol 1 (Sweet & Maxwell 2018)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘The Legacy of Williams v Roffey: Death knell for consideration or infusion of new blood?’ in J Bailey (ed.), Construction Law, Costs and Contemporary Developments: Drawing the Threads Together: A Festschrift for Lord Justice Jackson (Hart 2018)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘The Agreement’ in H Beale (ed.), Chitty on Contracts, 33rd Edition, Vol 1 (Sweet & Maxwell 2018)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Invalidity of Contract in Chinese and English Contract Law*’, Chinese Contract Law (Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2017)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Specific performance and change of mind’, Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies (2017)
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘Reform of Consideration: No Greener Grass’, Contract in Commercial Law (Thomson Reuters 2016)
Chen-Wishart M, Loke A and Ong B, ‘Introduction’, Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia I (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2016)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Comparative Asian Contract Law on the Remedies for Breach of Contract: Transplant, Convergence, and Divergence’, Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia I (Oxford University Press (OUP) 2016)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Conclusion: Comparative Asian Contract Law on the Remedies for Breach of Contract: Transplant, Convergence and Divergence’ in M Chen-Wishart, A Loke and B Ong (eds.), Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia: Remedies for Breach of Contract, Vol 1 (Oxford University Press 2015)
Chen-Wishart M, Loke A and Ong B, ‘Introduction: The Vision’ in M Chen-Wishart, A Loke and B Ong (eds.), Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia: Remedies for Breach of Contract, Vol 1 (Oxford University Press 2015)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘""Controlling Unfair Terms: Protecting the Institution of Contract""’ in L Gullifer and S Vogenaur eds (eds.), English and European Perspectives on Contract and Commercial Law (2015)
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘The Agreement’ in H Beale (ed.), Chitty on Contracts, Vol 1, 32nd edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2015)
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘Specific Performance and Injunction’ in H Beale (ed.), Chitty on Contracts, 32nd Edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2015)
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘Regulating Unfair Terms’ in L GULLIFER and S Vogenauer (eds.), English and European Perspectives on Contract and Commercial Law (Hart Publishing 2014)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘The Nature of Vitiating Factors’ in P Saprai, G Letsas and G Glass eds (eds.) (Oxford University Press 2014)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Undue Influence: Beyond Impaired Consent and Wrongdoing towards a Relational Analysis’, Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (Oxford University Press 2009)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘In Defence of Unjust Factors: a Study of Rescission for Duress, Fraud and Exploitation’ in D Johnston and R Zimmermann (eds.), Unjustified Enrichment: Key Issues in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2002)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Controlling the Power to Agree Damages’ in P Birks (ed.), Wrongs and Remedies in the Twenty-First Century (1996)
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Consideration, Practical Benefit and the Emperor’s New Clothes’ in Beatson and Friedmann (eds.), Good Faith and Fault in Contract Law (Oxford University Press 1995)
CHEN-WISHART M, ‘2016 and 2017 Supplements to Chapters 2, 27’ in H Beale (ed.) (Sweet & Maxwell)
Chen-Wishart M and others, Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia Vol IV: Invalidity (Oxford University Press 2022)
Chen-Wishart M and Vogenauer S, Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia Vol 3: Contents and Unfair Terms (Oxford University Press 2020)
Chen-Wishart M and Beale H, Chitty on Contracts, 33rd Edition, Vol 1 (Sweet & Maxwell 2018)
Chen-Wishart M, Loke A and Vogenauer S, Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia Vol 2: Formation and Parties (Oxford University Press 2018) 587
Chen-Wishart M, Loke A and Ong B, Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia Vol 1: Remedies for Breach of Contract (Oxford University Press 2016) 486
Chen-Wishart M, ‘Not so fast please! Abolition of consideration for contract modifications’ [2014] New Zealand Law Journal (case-note)