Mindy Chen-Wishart | |
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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]
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]
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