Jordan English

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Practice Overview

Dr Jordan English joined 3 Verulam Buildings as an Associate Member in 2025. He is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at Magdalen College, where he lectures in Contract Law to undergraduates and teaches Commercial Remedies and Restitution of Unjust Enrichment on the BCL/MJur. He also teaches Land Law and A Roman Introduction to Private Law, and has taught Trusts and Tort.

Jordan’s research spans the breadth of private law, with particular expertise in contract law, property law, restitution of unjust enrichment, commercial remedies, and asset recovery. He is the author of Discharge of Contractual Obligations (Oxford University Press, 2025), awarded the 2025 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Early Career Scholarship. He is also co-author of The Law of Tracing (Federation Press, 2021). His work on asset recovery has extended into the study of proceeds of crime laws, culminating in the co-authored text Federal Proceeds of Crime Law (Thomson Reuters, 2024).

Jordan’s scholarship has been cited widely on numerous occasions by leading courts, including the United Kingdom Supreme Court, the High Court of Australia, the New South Wales Court of Appeal, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia, the Commercial Court of England and Wales, and the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Prior to his academic career, Jordan worked as a solicitor in dispute resolution at King and Wood Mallesons and served as a Judicial Associate to Justice James Edelman at the High Court of Australia.

Education

DPhil in Law, Magdalen College, Oxford

Bachelor of Civil Law (Distinction), Magdalen College, Oxford

Bachelor of Laws (Hons I), Bachelor of Commerce, University of Queensland

Memberships and Associations

Academic Fellow of Middle Temple

Academic Member of the Chancery Bar Association

Governor of Magdalen College School, Brackley

Publications

Jordan has published over 40 publications comprising, 3 books, 1 edited book, 6 articles, 2 book chapters, 15 case notes, 2 book reviews, and 13 bulletins and commentaries on a range of commercial and private law topics.

Major publications include:

Discharge of Contractual Obligations (Oxford University Press, 2025).

Winner of the SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Early Career Scholarship (2025).
Cited in King Crude Carriers SA v Ridgebury November LLC[2025] UKSC 39 at [58]–[59].
Cited in Shao v Crown Global Capital Pty Ltd (in prov liq)[2025] HCA 43 at [38].

2. Federal Proceeds of Crime Law (Thomson Reuters, 2024) (with S. Hickey and S. Bronitt).

3. The Law of Tracing (Federation Press, 2021) (with M.J. Hafeez-Baig).

Cited in Tjiong v Chang[2025] NSWCA 25 at [31].
Cited in Blue Mirror Pty Ltd v Tan & Tan Australia Pty Ltd (in liq) [2024] NSWCA 253 at [29].
Cited in RnD Funding Pty Ltd v Roncane Pty Ltd [2023] FCAFC 28 at [76], [87], [91], [103], [106].
Cited in ED & F Man Capital Markets Ltd v Come Harvest Holdings Ltd [2022] EWHC 229 (Comm) at [667].

4. Issues in the Law of Rescission (Oxford University Press, 2026) (edited with J. Al-Sibaie) (forthcoming).

5. ‘The Interpretation of Oral Contracts’ (2026) 142 Law Quarterly Review (with V. Winzer) (forthcoming).

6. ‘Bribery and Secret Commissions: A Common Law-Equity Divide?’ [2025] Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 15.

7. ‘Employment Contracts, Conditions, and The Relationship of Employment’ (2024) 140 Law Quarterly Review 521.

8. ‘Dispositions of Subsisting Equitable Interests and s 53(1)(c) of the Law of Property Act 1925’ [2024] The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 140 (with J. Al-Sibaie).

9. ‘The Nature of Promissory Conditions’ (2021) 137 Law Quarterly Review 630.

Cited in Allianz Australia Insurance Limited v Delor Vue Apartments CTS 39788 [2022] HCA 38 at [43].

Other publications include:

10. “Hell or High Water” Clauses’ in M. Raczynska and P. Davies, Contract Law and the Unexpected(Hart Publishing, 2026) (forthcoming).

11. ‘Substantial Performance in Employment Contracts’ in A. Bogg and P. Davies, Private Law and the Employment Contract(Hart Publishing, 2025).

12. ‘Rectification, Employment Contracts, and Collective Agreements’ (2025) 54 Industrial Law Journal 710.

13. ‘The ’Equitable Mechanics’ of Constructive Trusts and Section 53(1)(c) of the Law of Property Act’ (2025) 141 The Law Quarterly Review 331 (with J. Al-Sibaie).

14. ‘The Principle in Mackay v Dick’ (2025) 141 Law Quarterly Review 48