Ciara Kennefick

Ciara Kennefick is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and Official Student (Tutorial Fellow) in Law at Christ Church. She is also a Visiting Professor at Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris, a Visiting Fellow at the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law at the University of Stockholm and a Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford.

Ciara’s research examines private law from comparative and historical perspectives. She is particularly interested in the just price, a great legal idea which has influenced law and many other fields of knowledge since the rediscovery of Roman law c1100. In 2020, she was awarded the Selden Society’s David Yale Prize 2019 ‘for an outstanding contribution to the history of the law of England and Wales from scholars who have been engaged in research in the subject for not longer than about ten years’.

Ciara completed her graduate degrees in law (BCL, MPhil and DPhil) at the University of Oxford. As an undergraduate, she studied law and French literature at University College Cork, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Montpellier.

Ciara has been at the University of Oxford for most of her academic career. During her doctoral studies, she was a Lecturer at Pembroke College. Following the defence of her thesis, she was elected to a Career Development Fellowship at The Queen’s College. She then held a Lectureship at King’s College London before returning to Oxford in 2019 to take up her current position.