Mindy Chen-Wishart
Mindy Chen-Wishart | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Title | Emeritus professor |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Otago |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Law |
| Sub-discipline | Contract law specialist |
| Institutions | Merton College, Oxford and National University of Singapore |
Mindy Chen-Wishart is an Emeritus professor of the law of contract and was the Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.[1] She is currently the Provost's Chair and Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore.[2]
She was a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Merton College, Oxford.[3] 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.[4]
Biography
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,[5] then moving to Oxford, initially as a research fellow funded by the Rhodes Trust.[6][7]
In 2021, she called for anti-racism training across Oxford University, relying on personal anecdotal material.[8] She launched the #RaceMeToo Twitter campaign to draw attention to racism allegedly faced by affected academics.[9]
A notable doctoral student of Chen-Wishart is Jodi Gardner, Brian Coot Chair in Private Law at the University of Auckland.[10]
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.
- ^ "https://law.nus.edu.sg/people/mindy-chen-wishart/". law.nus.edu.sg. Archived from the original on 18 June 2025. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
{{cite web}}: External link in|title= - ^ "Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart". Merton College, Oxford. Retrieved 2 October 2021.
- ^ "Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart | Merton College - Oxford". www.merton.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 October 2025.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Gardner, Jodi (2018). How to Approach High-Cost Credit : Beyond Freedom and Protection (DPhil). University of Oxford.