st277@cam.ac.uk
College Contact Details
Room: Girton College, B2
Tel: 01223 337022
University Associate Professor
MA, PhD (Cantab); Barrister (Inner Temple)
Interests
Legal History, Tort Law, Contract Law, Roman Law, Comparative Law
Research centres and interest groups
CV / Biography
Stelios Tofaris is a Fellow in Law at Girton College, Cambridge, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. He read law (BA, PhD) at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. In 2018, he was awarded a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for Excellence in University Teaching.
Selected publications
Books
Essays in Law and History for David Ibbetson: Querella (ed) (Hart Publishing, 2024)
Co-editor(s):
Joe Sampson
Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9781509970650
Hepple and Matthews' Tort Law: Cases and Materials (with David Howarth, Martin Matthews, Jonathan Morgan, Janet O'Sullivan) (Hart Publishing, 2015) 7th Edition
Publisher:
ISBN 13:
9781849465557
Articles
'Commercial Construction of Exemption Clauses' [2019] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 270
Citation:
[2019] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 270
Published: May 2019
'The Negligence Liability of Local Authorities for Failure to Protect Children from Abuse: Where to Draw the Line?' (2018) 34 Professional Negligence 190
Citation:
(2018) 34 Professional Negligence 190
Published: Dec 2018
'Negligence Liability for Omissions and the Police' [2016] 75 Cambridge Law Journal 128
Citation:
[2016] 75 Cambridge Law Journal 128
Published: Mar 2016
'Trust Law Goes East: The Transplantation of Trust Law in India and Beyond' (2015) 36 Journal of Legal History 299
Citation:
(2015) 36 Journal of Legal History 299
Published: Dec 2015
Book Chapters
"Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire [2018] UKSC 4: The Need for a New Landmark?" in J Russell and L Graham (ed(s)), Private Law and the UK Supreme Court (Routledge, 2025), pp. 33-41
"Specific Performance and the Indian Contract Act: History, Theory and Politics" in J Sampson and S Tofaris (ed(s)), Essays in Law and History for David Ibbetson: Querella (Hart Publishing, 2024), pp. 217-237
"Formation " in KV Krishnaprasad, S Swaminathan, V Umakanth and N Venkatesan (ed(s)), Foundations of Indian Contract Law (Oxford University Press, 2024), pp. 83-104
"Incorporation and Exemption Clauses in Consumer Contracts: Parker v South Eastern Railway Company" in J Gardner and I Ramsay (ed(s)), Landmark Cases in Consumer Law (Hart Publishing, 2024), pp. 55-77
"The Transplantation of Trusts Law in India" in YK Liew and M Harding (ed(s)), Asia-Pacific Trusts Law: Theory and Practice in Context (Hart Publishing, 2021), pp. 123-141
"The Regulation of Unfair Terms in Indian Contract Law: Past, Present and Future" in M Chen-Wishart and S Vogenauer (ed(s)), Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia III: Contents of Contracts and Unfair Terms (Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 111-134
Case Notes
"Illegality and Insanity in Tort Law " [2024] 83 CLJ 429
Published: Nov 2024
"Limping Into the Future: Negligence Liability for Mental Injury to Secondary Victims" [2022] 81 CLJ 452
Published: Nov 2022
"Duty of Care in Negligence: A Return to Orthodoxy?" [2018] 77 CLJ 454
Published: Nov 2018
"Vicarious Liability and Non-Delegable Duty for Child Abuse in Foster Care: A Step Too Far?" (2016) 79 Modern Law Review 884-900
Published: Sep 2016
"Rylands v Fletcher Restricted Further" [2013] 72 CLJ 11
Published: Apr 2013
"Negligence liability of public bodies: Locating the interface between public and private law" [2011] 70 CLJ 294
Published: Jul 2011
"Who pays for the sub-contractor's negligence? Vicarious liability and liability for "extra-hazardous" activities re-examined" [2010] 69 CLJ 13
Published: Mar 2010
"Damages for sewage smells in nuisance and under the Human Rights Act 1998" [2009] 68 CLJ 273
Published: Mar 2010
"Ironing out the law of limitation for tort actions" [2008] 67 CLJ 463
Published: Mar 2010
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