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Patrick Selim Atiyah, QC FBA (5 March 1931 – 30 March 2018) was an English lawyer and academic. He was best known for his work as a common lawyer, particularly in the law of contract and for advocating reformation or abolition of the law of tort. He was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1979.

Biography

Patrick Selim Atiyah was born on 5 March 1931.[1] He was a son of the Lebanese writer Edward Atiyah and his Scottish wife Jean.[1] The mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah was his brother.[1] As a child, Patrick lived in Sudan and Egypt.[2] The family moved to England in 1945.[2] Patrick attended primary school at Woking County Grammar School for Boys and went on to read law at Magdalen College, Oxford.[2]

Atiyah was professor of law at the Australian National University (1970–1973), at the University of Warwick (1973–1977) and professor of English law at the University of Oxford (1977–1988). He also was visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (1982-1983).[2][additional citation(s) needed]

He died on 30 March 2018.[2]

Bibliography

Books
Articles
  • 'Economic Duress and the Overborne Will' (1982) 98 LQR 197. Atiyah argued that it was wrong to use the phrase 'coercion of the will' in the test for duress. Duress does not eliminate free choice, it just creates a choice between evils. What is wrong about a contract is not an absence of consent, but the wrongful nature of the threats used to bring about consent.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c "Legal scholar Patrick Atiyah - one of the most important of his generation". Oxford Mail. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Patrick Atiyah, legal scholar - obituary". The Daily Telegraph. 30 April 2018. ProQuest 2032580183.