Mindy Chen-Wishart
Mindy Chen-Wishart is a professor of the law of contract and was the Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford,[1]. She is a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Merton College, Oxford.[2] She has written numerous articles on contract law and the law of obligations. Her work has been adopted the Canadian Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of England and Wales.[citation needed]
Born in Taiwan, she was brought up in New Zealand. She began her academic career at the University of Otago, where she completed a Master's degree in 1987,[3] then moving to Oxford, initially as a research fellow funded by the Rhodes Trust.[4][5]
In 2021, she called for anti-racism training across Oxford University, relying on personal anecdotal material.[6] She launched the #RaceMeToo Twitter campaign to draw attention to racism allegedly faced by affected academics.[7]
Publications
- Unconscionable Bargains (Butterworths 1989) ISBN 978-0409788815
- Contract Law (OUP, 1st edn 2005, 6th edn 2018) ISBN 978-0198806356
References
- ^ "Mindy Chen-Wishart". Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart". Merton College, Oxford. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ Chen-Wishart, Mindy (1987). Unconscionable bargains : what are the courts doing? (Masters thesis). OUR Archive, University of Otago. hdl:10523/3335.
- ^ "Mindy Chen-Wishart". University of Oxford. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- ^ "Mindy Chen-Wishart Profile". The Rhodes Project. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
- ^ Turner, Camilla (3 August 2021). "Oxford porters stop me because of my skin colour, says senior don". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
- ^ Garicano, Pieter. "Dean of the Faculty of Law launches #RaceMeToo". Cherwell. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
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