Andreas Televantos

Associate Professor

Other affiliations

Faculty of Law

Biography

I am an Associate Professor at the Law Faculty and the Hanbury Fellow and Tutor in Law at Lincoln College.

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. I am especially interested in the use of legal historical method to shed light on modern legal problems and on how private law took its modern structure. I am also interested in the nature of the 'fiduciary' duties owed by the Crown to native peoples.

My 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.

Publications

Journal Article (11)

TELEVANTOS A, ‘The Nature of Partnership Property and Equitable Interests’ [2023] The Law Quarterly Review

Televantos A, ‘The Nature of Partnership Property and Equitable Interests’ [2022] The Law Quarterly Review

TELEVANTOS A, ‘Trusts, limitation periods, and unauthorised gains’ [2020] The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer

Televantos A, ‘OVERREACHING AND TRUSTS OF LAND’ (2019) 78(3) The Cambridge Law Journal 516

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Televantos A, ‘Claims to Traceable Proceeds: Law, Equity and the Control of Assets. By Aruna Nair [Oxford University Press, 2018. xiv + 229 pp. Hardback £70.00. ISBN 978-01-98813-40-8.] - The Law of Tracing in Commercial Transactions. By Magda Raczynska [Oxford University Press, 2018. Hardback £155.00. ISBN 978-01-98796-13-8.]’ (2018) 77(3) The Cambridge Law Journal 647

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Televantos A, ‘The Duty to Account: Development and Principles. By J.A. Watson [Sydney: Federation Press, 2016. 240 pp. Hardback A$90.00. ISBN 978-1-76-002066-8.]’ (2017) 76(2) The Cambridge Law Journal 436

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Televantos A, ‘UNCONSCIONABLE BARGAINS, OVERREACHING AND OVERRIDING INTERESTS’ (2016) 75(3) The Cambridge Law Journal 458

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TELEVANTOS A, ‘Teaching an old dog new tricks: liability of banks in equity for misappropriated funds’ [2016] Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law

TELEVANTOS A, ‘Trusteeship, Ostensible Authority, and Land Registration: The Category Error in Wishart’ [2016] Conveyancer and Property Lawyer

TELEVANTOS A and Maniscalco L, ‘Stay on target: compensation and causation in breach of trust claims’ [2015] The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer

Televantos A and Maniscalco L, ‘PROPRIETARY ESTOPPEL AND VENDOR PURCHASER CONSTRUCTIVE TRUSTS’ (2015) 74(1) The Cambridge Law Journal 27

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Book (1)

Televantos A, Capitalism Before Corporations The morality of business associations and the roots of commercial equity and law (Oxford University Press 2020)

Chapter (2)

MCFARLANE B and TELEVANTOS A, ‘As Complex as ABC? Bona Fide Purchasers of Equitable Interests’, Intermediaries in Commercial Law (Bloomsbury Publishing 2022)

TELEVANTOS A and MCFARLANE B, ‘Third Party Effects in Private Law: Form and Function’ in P Miller and J Oberdiek (eds.), Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory, Volume 1 (OUP 2020)

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Research Interests

Trusts, Equity, Commercial Law, Legal History, Property (real and personal) and Insolvency

Research projects & programmes

Business Law Research Group Private Law Research Group

Options taught

Land Law

Trusts

Advanced Property and Trusts

Legal Concepts in Financial Law