Andrew Burrows, QC
Professor of the Law of England
Biography
Andrew Burrows (from June 2, 2020, The Right Honourable Lord Burrows), MA, BCL, LLM (Harvard), QC (Hon), FBA, DCL, Honorary Bencher of Middle Temple is a Justice of the UK Supreme Court (from June 2, 2020), Professor of the Law of England and a Fellow at All Souls. He was a Law Commissioner for England and Wales (1994-1999) and President of the Society of Legal Scholars (2015-16). He was formerly a Deputy High Court Judge and Recorder on the South-Eastern Circuit, a Member of the Ogden Working Party, and a Door Tenant of Fountain Court Chambers, London.
Formerly: Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law, St Hugh's College, 1999-2010; Professor of English Law, University College, London 1994-1999; Fellow and CUF Lecturer in Law, Lady Margaret Hall, 1986-1994; Lecturer in Law, University of Manchester 1980-1986; Visiting Professor, Bond University 1994; Research Fellow, Australian National University 1994; Judicial Studies Board; Civil Committee of the Judicial Studies Board.
Publications
Burrows A, ‘’At the Expense of the Claimant’: a Fresh Look’ [2018] Restitution Law Review
Burrows A, ‘Illegality after Patel v Mirza’ (2017) 70(1) Current Legal Problems 55
Burrows A, ‘Interest’ 247
Burrows A and Burrows J, ‘A Shocking Requirement in the Law on Negligence Liability for Psychiatric Illness’ [2016] (2) Medical Law Review 278
Burrows A, ‘Challenges for private law in the 21st century’ [2016] Private Law in the 21st Century Conference
Burrows A and Burrows J, ‘A Shocking Requirement in the Law of Negligence Liability for Psychiatric Illness: Liverpool Women’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v Ronayne’ [2016] Medcial Law Review
Burrows A, ‘Understanding the Law of Contract in Myanmar’ [2015] (59) Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper
Burrows A, ‘The Influence of Comparative Law on the English Law of Obligations’
Burrows A, ‘Lord Hoffmann and Remoteness in Contract’
Burrows A, ‘Is There a Defence of Good Consideration?’
Burrows A, ‘Judgment-Writing: An Academic Perspective’
Burrows A, ‘Numbers Sitting in the Supreme Court’ (2013) 129(July) Law Quarterly Review 305
Burrows A, ‘Common Law Retrospectivity’
Rodger of Earlsferry L and Burrows A, ‘Peter Birks’ [2013] Restitution Law Review 54
Burrows A, ‘Restitution of Mistaken Enrichments’ (2012) 92(3) Boston University Law Review 767
Burrows A, ‘The Relationship between Common Law and Statute in the Law of Obligations’ (2012) 128(April) Law Quarterly Review 232
Burrows A, ‘Damages and Rights’
Burrows A, ‘Comparing Compensatory Damages in Tort and Contract: Some Problematic Issues’
Burrows A, ‘The Australian Law of Restitution: Has the High Court Lost its Way?’
Burrows A, ‘Lord Bingham and Three Continuing Remedial Controversies’
Burrows A, ‘Uncertainty about Uncertainty: Damages for Loss of a Chance’ [2008] (1) Journal of Personal Injury Law 31
Burrows A, ‘Are ‘Damages on the Wrotham Park Basis’ Compensatory, Restitutionary, or Neither?’
Burrows A, ‘Unravelling Proprietary Restitution: a Response to Professor Lionel Smith’ (2005) 2005 Canadian Business Law Journal 424
Burrows A, ‘Some Reflections on Law Reform in England and Canada’ (2004) 39 Canadian Business Law Journal 320
Burrows A, ‘Change of Position: the View from England’ (2003) 2003 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 803
Burrows A, ‘We do this at Common Law but that in Equity’ (2002) 22(1) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 42370
Burrows A, ‘Proprietary Restitution: Unmasking Unjust Enrichment’ (2001) 117(Jul) Law Quarterly Review 412
Burrows A, ‘No Damages for a Third Party’s Loss’ (2001) 1 OUCLJ 107
BURROWS A, ‘In Defence of Unjust Enrichment’ Cambridge Law Journal
Burrows A and Peel E, ‘Contract Terms’
Burrows A, A Casebook on Contract (Hart 2020)
Beatson J, Burrows A and Cartwright J, Anson’s Law of Contract (OUP 2020)
BURROWS A, Thinking About Statutes: Interpretation, Interaction, Improvement (Cambridge University Press 2018)
Burrows A, A Restatement of the English Law of Contract (OUP 2016)
Burrows A, A Casebook on Contract (Hart 2013) 839pp
Burrows A, Judge and Jurist: essays in Memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (A Burrows, D Johnston and R Zimmermann eds., OUP 2013) 699pp
Burrows A, A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment (OUP 2012)
Burrows A, The Law of Restitution (OUP 2011)
Burrows A, A Casebook on Contract (Hart 2011)
Burrows A, Beatson J and Cartwright J, Anson’s Law of Contract (OUP 2010)
Burrows A, Clerk and Lindsell on Torts (Thomson Reuters 2010) 1879
Burrows A, A Casebook on Contract (Hart 2009)
Burrows A, Chitty on Contracts (Thomson Reuters 2008) 1215
Burrows A, A Casebook on Contract (Hart 2007) 801
Burrows A, McKendrick E and Edelman J, Cases and Materials on the Law of Restitution, 2nd edition (OUP 2007) 1045
Burrows A, Remedies for Torts and Breach of contract (OUP 2004) 664
Burrows A, Chitty on Contracts, plus supplement 2004 (Sweet and Maxwell 2003)
Burrows A, The Law of Restitution (Butterworths 2002) 639
Burrows A, Fusing Common law and Equity: Remedies, Restitution and Reform (Sweet and Maxwell, Asia 2002) 44
Burrows A, English Private Law: first and second supplements (OUP 2002)
Burrows A, Clerk and Lindsell on Torts: Annual Supplements 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 (Sweet and Maxwell 2002)
Burrows A, ‘Negotiating Damages’ in C Mitchell and S Watterson (eds.), The World of Maritime and Commercial Law (Hart 2020)
Burrows A, ‘Form and Substance: Fictions and Judicial Power’ in A Robertson and J Goudkamp (eds.), Form and Substance in the Law of Obligations (Hart 2019)
Burrows A, ‘A New Dawn for the Law of Illegality’ in A Bogg and S Green (eds.), Illegality after Patel v Mirza (Hart 2018)
Burrows A, ‘Challenges for Private Law in the Twenty-First Century’ in K Barker, K Fairweather and R Grantham (eds.), Private Law in the 21st Century (Hart 2017)
Burrows A, ‘Illegality as a Defence in Contract’ in S Degeling, J Edelman and J Goudkamp (eds.), Contract in Commercial Law (Thomson Reuters 2016)
Burrows A, ‘Post-Legislative Scrutiny, Legislative Drafting and the ’Elusive Boundary’’ in M Dyson, J Lee and S Wilson Stark (eds.), Fifty Years of the Law Commissions: the Dynamics of Law Reform (Hart 2016)
Burrows A, ‘Some Recurring Issues in Relation to Limitation of Actions’ in A Dyson, J Goudkamp and F Wilmot-Smith (eds.), Defences in Tort (Hart 2015)
Burrows A, ‘Damages, Limitation’, Clerk and Lindsell on Torts (Sweet and Maxwell 2014)
Burrows A, ‘Alternatives to Legislation: Restatements and Judicial Law Reform’ in L Gullifer and S Vogenauer (eds.), English and European Perspectives on Contract and Commercial Law: Essays in Honour of Hugh Beale (Hart 2014)
Burrows A, ‘Judicial Remedies’, English Private Law (OUP 2013)
Burrows A and Busch C, ‘Contract Terms in favour of Third Parties’ in G Dannemann and S Vogenauer (eds.), The Common European Sales Law in Context (OUP 2013)
Burrows A, ‘The Relationship Between Unjust Enrichment and Property: Some Unresolved Issues’ in Degeling and Edelman (eds.), Unjust Enrichment in Commercial Law (Thomson Reuters 2008)
Burrows A and Rodger of Earlsferry L, ‘Peter Birks 1941-2004’, Proceedings of the Biritish Academy 150, Biographcial Memoirs of Fellows VI (OUP 2008)
Burrows A, ‘Construction and Rectification’ in Burrows and Peel (eds.), Contract Terms (OUP 2007)
Burrows A, ‘Remedial Coherence and Punitive Damages in Equity’ in S Degeling (ed.), Equity in Commercial Law (Thomson 2006)
Burrows A, ‘Chapters 29-33’, Clerk and Lindsell on Torts (19th edn) (Sweet and Maxwell 2006)
Burrows A, ‘Absence of Basis: the New Birksian Scheme’ in A Burrows and A Rodger (eds.), Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (OUP 2006)
Burrows A, ‘The English Law of Restitution: A Ten-Year Review’ in Neyers, McInnes and Pitel (eds.), Understanding Unjust Enrichment (2004)
Burrows A, ‘Chapters 19-20, 28 plus annual supplements 2004, 2005, 2006’, Chitty on Contracts 29th edn (2004)
Burrows A, ‘Limitations on Compensation’ in A Burrows and E Peel (eds.), Commercial Remedies: Current Issues and Problems (OUP 2003)
Burrows A, English Private Law (OUP 2013) 1434pp
Burrows A and Rodger of Earlsferry (co-editor) L, Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (OUP 2006)
Burrows A and Peel E, Commercial Remedies (OUP 2003) 304
Burrows A, ‘Interest’, Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies (eds Graham Virgo and Sarah Worthington) (2017)
Burrows A, ‘One Step Forward?’ (2018) 134 LQR 515 (case-note)
Burrows A, ‘Narrowing the Scope of Unjust Enrichment’ (2017) 133 Law Quarterly Review 537 (case-note)
Burrows A, ‘Good Consideration in the Law of Unjust Enrichment’ (2013) 129(July) Law Quarterly Review 328 (case-note)
Burrows A, ‘Restitution in Respect of Mistakenly Paid Tax’ (2005) 121 LQR 540 (case-note)