Andrew Stephen Burrows, Lord Burrows, (born 17 April 1957BURROWS, Prof. Andrew Stephen
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Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom are the judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom other than President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the president and Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United ...

. His academic work centres on

private law Private law is that part of a legal system that governs interactions between individual persons. It is distinguished from public law, which deals with relationships between both natural and artificial persons (i.e., organizations) and the st ...

. He is the main editor of the compendium ''English Private Law'' and the convenor of the advisory group that produced '' A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment'' as well as textbooks on

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. He was appointed to the

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on 2 June 2020. As

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of the Law of England,

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and senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford at the time of his appointment, he was the first Supreme Court judge to be appointed directly from academia.

Career

Burrows was educated at Prescot Grammar School and

Brasenose College, Oxford Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The l ...

, where he received his BA (First Class, Martin Wronker Prize for the best result in Law Finals 1978), which was later promoted to MA, and subsequently took the BCL (First Class). He then studied for an

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degree at

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. He was a lecturer at the

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from 1980 to 1986, a fellow and lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford from 1986 to 1994, a visiting professor at

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and research fellow at ANU in 1994, and a Law Commissioner for England and Wales from 1994 to 1999. His work as a Law Commissioner included co-authorship of the Law Commission's Report No. 242 (Privity of Contract: Contracts for the Benefit of Third Parties), published in 1996 under the chairmanship of Lady Arden of Heswall (then The Honourable Mrs Justice Arden, DBE). This led to the

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, which significantly reformed the law of contract in England & Wales and Northern Ireland by providing for a statutory exception to the common law doctrines of privity and (indirectly)

consideration Consideration is a concept of English law, English common law and is a necessity for simple contracts but not for special contracts (contracts by deed). The concept has been adopted by other common law jurisdictions. It is commonly referred to a ...

. He was then appointed as the Norton Rose Professor of Commercial Law at

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. In 2007 he was appointed as a Deputy High Court judge, sitting part-time in the Commercial Court, having previously sat part-time as a Recorder in both criminal and civil cases. He was elected a

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in 2007. In 2010, he was appointed a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford and Professor of the Law of England,

, which he remained until his appointment in 2020 to the Supreme Court. From 2015 to 2016, he was President of The Society of Legal Scholars. In 2015 he was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Brasenose College. In private practice, Burrows was a door tenant of Fountain Court Chambers, London. He has appeared in a number of court cases, and was appointed an honorary QC in 2003. Burrows' work as an academic has proved particularly popular amongst judges, with Baroness Hale of Richmond, then President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, having commented that "there are few, if any, legal scholars whose writings are more frequently cited in our courts". Burrows took up appointment as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom on 2 June 2020, taking the judicial courtesy title of Lord Burrows. He is the second Justice (after

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) to have been appointed without first having served as a full-time judge, and the first Justice to have been appointed directly from academia.

Notable cases

As counsel

*'' Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington LBC'' 9941 W.L.R. 938 (in the CA) *'' Baird Textile Holdings Ltd v Marks & Spencer plc'' 001EWCA Civ 274 (in the CA) *'' Test Claimants in the Franked Investment Income Group Litigation v IRC'' 012UKSC 19 *''Prudential Assurance Company Ltd v Commissioners for HMRC'' 018UKSC 39

As judge

*''Manchester Building Society v Grant Thornton UK LLP''

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UKSC 20 *''Khan v Meadows''

UKSC 21 *''Pakistan International Airline Corporation v Times Travel (UK) Ltd''

UKSC 40 *''R (on the application of Majera (formerly SM (Rwanda)) (AP) v Secretary of State for the Home Department''

UKSC 46 *''Paul v Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust'' 024UKSC 1

Publications

*''A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment'' (OUP 2012) *''English Private Law'' *''Cases and Materials on Contract Law'' (3rd edn Hart 2010) *''The Law of Restitution'' (OUP 2011) *''Anson's Law of Contract'' (OUP 2010) (with Jack Beatson and John Cartwright) *''Cases and Materials on the Law of Restitution'' (OUP 2006) (with Ewan McKendrick and James Edelman) *''Remedies for Torts and Breach of Contract'' (Clarendon 2004) * ''Privity of Contract: Contracts for the Benefit of Third Parties'' (Law Commission Report No. 242, 1996) (as Law Commissioner)

Notes

External links

Oxford law profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Burrows, Andrew Stephen 1957 births Living people British legal scholars Harvard Law School alumni Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Fellows of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford Fellows of St Hugh's College, Oxford Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford Judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Legal scholars of the University of Oxford Honorary King's Counsel