Associate Professor Tatiana Cutts

Overview

My research spans Private Law (particularly Property, Contracts and Equity) and Legal Theory, often as those topics intersect with issues of technological innovation. I am currently writing a book (“Artificial Justice”) with Oxford University Press about how the use of predictive algorithms bears on questions of law and justice. I joined Melbourne Law School from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2020, and received my D.Phil, BCL and LLB from the University of Oxford.

I welcome PhD and mentorship enquiries from junior scholars. I particularly welcome mentorship enquiries from women, and from black and First Nations scholars, in Private Law and Law and Technology.

Key publications:

• “Unjust Enrichment: What We Owe to Each Other” (2021) 41 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 114–141
• “Dummy Asset Tracing” Law Quarterly Review (2019) 135, 140–165
• “Modern Money Had and Received” (2018) 38 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1–25
• “Tracing, Value and Transactions” (2016) 79 Modern Law Review 381–405 (recipient of the Modern Law Review Wedderburn Prize).

Other School and University Responsibilities

• Co-Convenor Property Law
• Convenor Law and Automation (JD Elective)
• Convenor Cryptoassets in Global Context (MLM)
• Director of Studies for Digital Law and Technological Innovation (MLM)
• Director International Legal Internship
• Faculty Research Seminar Series Coordinator

Memberships and Affiliations

• Inner Temple Academic Fellow
• Advisory Panel, Law Commission of England & Wales (Digital Assets)
• Financial Markets Law Committee
• CAIDE Researcher
• LSE Law, Technology and Society Affiliate
• Golden Gate University Blockchain Law Center for Social Good Affiliate