The Edinburgh Roman Law Group - Ulpian and the theft of incorporeals - Helen Scott

The Edinburgh Roman Law Group presents:

‘Ulpian and the theft of incorporeals’

Professor Helen Scott

Professor of Private Law, University of Oxford

About the speaker

Helen Scott is Professor of Private Law in the Oxford Law Faculty and Tutorial Fellow in Law at Lady Margaret Hall. Her research interests fall within the law of obligations (particularly tort and unjust enrichment) and civilian legal history (particularly Roman law). She is the author of Unjust Enrichment in South African Law: Rethinking Enrichment by Transfer (Hart, 2013), reviewed by Hector MacQueen in the South African Law Journal (here), and recently edited Private Law in a Changing World, a collection of essays celebrating the work of Danie Visser. She is currently working on projects concerning the role of foreseeability in the law of tort (her recent work on the history of foreseeability can be found here) and the role of fault in unjust enrichment.

She studied classics and law at the University of Cape Town and subsequently completed BCL (2000), MPhil (2001) and DPhil (2005) degrees at Oxford. Before taking up her current position at Oxford she was a professor in the Department of Private Law at the University of Cape Town, where she taught courses on comparative legal history, delict, unjustified enrichment and Roman law. Between 2005 and 2009 she was a tutorial fellow in law at St Catherine's College Oxford, and before that a fixed-term fellow at Trinity College. Between 2008 and 2014 she was also a visiting professor at the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), where she taught a course in the common law of tort. At Oxford she teaches Roman law, tort, and the restitution of unjust enrichment.

In December 2017 she received a B rating (denoting an 'internationally acclaimed researcher') from the South African National Research Foundation.

 

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