Paul S Davies

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Paul Davies
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Chair in Commercial Law, UCL
Assumed office
September 2017
Personal details
Born
Paul S Davies
Alma materDowning College
OccupationBarrister, legal academic

Paul S Davies has been the chair in Commercial Law at the Faculty of Law, University College London since 2017 and a barrister at Essex Court Chambers since 2021. He has been published in many areas of private law, but his primary focus is commercial law.

Education[]

Davies was admitted to Downing College, Cambridge to read Oriental Studies, with a focus on Japanese studies. He later switched to reading Law at the same college, and completed a Diploma in French Legal Studies at the University of Poitiers before graduating with Firsts in both Oriental Studies and Law in 2007.[1] His graduating mark in law was the highest since 1986.[2]

He completed a doctorate in law at the University of Cambridge in 2017.[1]

Academic career[]

Davies was a research assistant at the Law Commission's Property, Trust and Family Law Team between 2007 and 2008. He then joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge and was appointed as a Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, and later the Newton Trust Lecturer in Law.

Between 2014 and 2016, he was a visiting professor at KU Leuven.

In 2013, he was appointed as a Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford, where he taught until assuming his present post at UCL in 2017.[2] His inaugural lecture at UCL was titled "Bad Bargains" and was chaired by Lord Sales.[3][4]

He is an academic member of the Chancery Bar Association.[5]

In 2020, Davies was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize for his work on private law.[6][7]

Publications[]

Judicially-cited[]

Many of Davies' publications have been cited judicially by Commonwealth courts, including those in England and Wales, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

In Marks and Spencer v BNP Paribas [2015] UKSC 72, the UK Supreme Court cited Davies' article, "Recent developments in the Law of Implied Terms" [2010] Lloyds' Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 140, at [24] and [64], and expressed support for the criticism in that article of Lord Hoffmann's judgment in the earlier case of AG of Belize v Belize Telecom [2009] UKPC 10. These criticisms were also drawn on by the Singapore Court of Appeal in Foo Jong Peng v Phua Kiah Mai [2012] SGCA 55 justifying its decision not to follow Belize Telecom.

Davies' work on contractual rectification was cited by the Court of Appeal in England & Wales in FSHC Group Holdings v Glas Trust Corporation [2019] EWCA Civ 1361.https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWCA/Civ/2019/1361.html and was described by Lord Justice Leggatt (now Lord Leggatt), as "particularly helpful".

In Group Seven v Notable Services [2019] EWCA Civ 614, the Court of Appeal cited Davies' monograph on dishonest assistance (Accessory Liability (2015)) with approval.

Books[]

  • Accessory Liability (Hart Publishing, 2015) - awarded the Inner Temple Book Prize 2018, which rewards outstanding contributions to the understanding of law.[8] It was also joint second for the 2015 Society of Legal Scholars Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, and was shortlisted for the St Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize.[9][10][11]
  • Equity and Trusts: Text, Cases and Materials (OUP, 2018) - co-authored with Graham Virgo QC
  • Defences in Equity (Hart, 2018) - co-edited with James Goudkamp[12][13]
  • JC Smith's Law of Contract (OUP, 2021)

Articles[]

Legal practice[]

Davies began his pupillage at Essex Court Chambers on 1 September 2020 and qualified as a barrister on 1 November 2020.[14] He has been a tenant at Essex Court Chambers since 4 February 2021.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b UCL (2017-10-24). "Paul S Davies". UCL Faculty of Laws. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  2. ^ a b c "Professor Paul Davies". Essex Court Chambers. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  3. ^ Prof. Paul Davies - Inaugural Lecture January 2019 - Bad Bargains, retrieved 2021-05-05
  4. ^ Davies, Paul. "Bad Bargains". Current Legal Problems. 72: 253.
  5. ^ "Academic Members". www.chba.org.uk. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  6. ^ UCL (2020-10-19). "Professor Paul S Davies honoured with Philip Leverhulme Prize". UCL Faculty of Laws. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  7. ^ "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2020 | The Leverhulme Trust". www.leverhulme.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  8. ^ "Past Winners | Inner Temple". Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  9. ^ UCL (2018-10-31). "Professor Paul S Davies' Accessory Liability wins Inner Temple Book Prize 2018". UCL Faculty of Laws. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  10. ^ UCL (2018-03-19). "Professor Paul Davies shortlisted for the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum Private Law Prize". UCL Faculty of Laws. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
  11. ^ Lindsay, Bobby (2016-04-26). "Paul S Davies, Accessory Liability". Edinburgh Law Review. 20 (2): 242–244. doi:10.3366/elr.2016.0350. ISSN 1364-9809.
  12. ^ "Defences in Equity". www.bloomsburyprofessional.com. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  13. ^ "Equitable Defences as Meta-Law". New Private Law. 2018-03-21. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
  14. ^ "Professor Paul S Davies Pupillage and Academic Prize". Essex Court Chambers. 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
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