Andreas Televantos

I am an Associate Professor at the Law Faculty and the Hanbury Fellow and Tutor in Law at Lincoln College.  I am also the General Editor of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. 

As an undergraduate, I read law at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (2007-2010), before taking the BPTC (2010-11), and I returned to Corpus to read for an M.St in Legal Research (2011-2012). I then read for a doctorate at Girton College, Cambridge (2012-2016), for which I was awarded a Yorke Prize by the Cambridge Faculty of Law. I then took up a position as a Fellow and Director of Studies for the Law Tripos at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (2015-2018).

My research focuses on trusts, fiduciaries, and equitable remedies in the commercial sphere. It aims to illuminate the form and function of economically significant private law institutions by combining doctrinal and theoretical analysis with perspectives from legal history and  law and economics. My three articles in the Law Quarterly Review are representative of my work and methods, ‘Trustees and Their Creditors’ (2025) 141 LQR 561-586; ‘The Nature of Partnership Property and Equitable Interests’ (2023) 139 LQR 26-51; and ‘Losing the fiduciary requirement for equitable tracing’ (2017) 133 LQR 492-515.

My first monograph, Capitalism Before Corporations (OUP 2020) was awarded the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2021 by the Society of Legal Scholars. In 2022, I was awarded a Teaching Excellence (Early Career) Award by the Social Sciences Division of the University.  

I am currently working on a second monograph The Common Law of Finance, critically examining the network of private law doctrines on which financial markets depend. It shows that such rules are not simply technical adjuncts to financial practice, but embed normative judgments about where financial losses should lie and the permissible scope of private ordering. Fundamentally, it asks what role private law should play in controlling financial activity.