Mindy Chen-Wishart | |
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| Title | Emeritus Professor |
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| Education | University of Otago |
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| Discipline | Law |
| Sub-discipline | Contract Law and Contract Theory |
| 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 by 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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