Professor Donal Nolan

Overview

Donal Nolan is Professor of Private Law in the University of Oxford and Francis Reynolds and Clarendon Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford. He has taught tort, contract, commercial law, international trade law, restitution and commercial law. He is a Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne, a founding member of the World Tort Law Society, and an elected member of the American Law Institute.

Donal’s research is focused primarily on the law of tort, and in particular the law of negligence, the law of private nuisance and the interface between tort law and public law. He is the author of Questions of Liability: Essays on the Law of Tort (2023); co-author of Contributory Negligence in the Twenty-First Century (2019), Winfield & Jolowicz on Tort, 20th edn (2020), Lunney & Oliphant’s Tort Law: Text and Materials, 7th edn (2023) and Contributory Negligence, 2nd edn(2023); and co-editor of Rights and Private Law (2011), Scholars of Tort Law (2019) and Scholars of Contract Law (2022).