Rory Gregson
Biography
Rory is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Merton College. Rory works on all aspects of private law, and is particularly interested in the interrelation between the core private law subjects. His work brings together contract, tort, land, trusts, and remedies, considering what one area can learn from another, in order to solve problems currently troubling the courts. His work has been cited with approval by the Court of Appeal of England and Wales.
At present, Rory teaches the undergraduate papers in Contract and Land, as well as the Commercial Remedies paper on the BCL.
Rory read law at the University of Cambridge, graduating top of his year with a Starred First. He then moved to the University of Oxford to complete a BCL, MPhil, and DPhil. On the strength of his doctoral thesis on the law of subrogation, he was awarded a Prize Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. Before taking up his current post, he was a University Assistant Professor in Private Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Publications
Subrogation and Marshalling (Hart Publishing 2024)
‘What’s the Wrong in Knowing Receipt?’ (2024) 87 MLR 1347 (with Timothy Pilkington)
‘Torts and Unjust Enrichments’ in William Day and Julius Grower (eds), Borderlines in Private Law (OUP 2024)
‘All or Nothing’ (2024) 83 CLJ 27
‘Subrogation, Marshalling, and Property’ in Natalie Mrockova, Aruna Nair, and Luke Rostill (eds), Modern Studies in Property Law Volume 12 (Hart Publishing 2023)
‘An Unreliable Case’ [2022] Conv 421
‘Building Unexpectedly Accedes to Land’ (2021) 80 CLJ 449
‘Is Subrogation a Remedy for Unjust Enrichment?’ (2020) 136 LQR 481
‘Impaired Intention Unjust Factors?’ in Elise Bant, Kit Barker, and Simone Degeling (eds), Research Handbook on Unjust Enrichment and Restitution (Edward Elgar Publishing 2020) (with Mindy Chen-Wishart)
‘When Should there be an Implied Power to Delegate?’ [2017] PL 408