Jordan English

Jordan is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law and a Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College. He lectures in Contract Law to undergradutes and teaches Commercial Remedies and Restitution of Unjust Enrichment on the BCL/MJur. At the College level, Jordan teaches Land Law and A Roman Introduction to Private Law. He has also taught Trusts, Contract, and Tort. 

Jordan's research focuses on private law, with a particular emphasis on contract law and property law. He is the author of Discharge of Contractual Obligations (Oxford University Press, 2025), which was the 2025 winner of the SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Early Career Scholarship, and the co-author of the The Law of Tracing (Federation Press, 2021). His work on asset recovery has also led to research on proceeds of crime laws, which straddle the civil-criminal law divide, and he is the co-author of an Australian text, Federal Proceeds of Crime Law (Thomson Reuters, 2024). 

Jordan's research has been cited widely, including by the High Court of Australia, the New South Wales Court of Appeal, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia, the England and Wales High Court (Commercial Court), and the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands. 

Jordan completed a DPhil in Law and obtained a Bachelor of Civil Law (Dist) from the University of Oxford. He also holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons I, Medal) and a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Queensland. Before coming to Oxford he worked as a solicitor in dispute resolution at an international law firm and as an Associate to Justice James Edelman at the High Court of Australia. 

Jordan is also an Academic Fellow of Middle Temple, an academic member of the Chancery Bar Association, and a governor of Magdalen College School, Brackley.  He was the Des Voeux Chambers Oxford-HKU Visiting Fellow at the University of Hong Kong in 2025, and will be the Cheng Yu Tung Residence Fellow in 2026.