Professor Jonathan Morgan
- Professor of English Law
Contact
Location
- O4, Old Court, Corpus Christi College
About
Fellow, Corpus Christi College. Barrister (Essex Court Chambers).
Jonathan Morgan has been a Fellow of Corpus Christi (where he was previously a doctoral student) since 2012. After the University appointed him to a personal chair in 2023, he delivered an inaugural lecture on "Judges, Jurists and Style".
He began his career as lecturer in English Law at Warsaw University and maintains links with legal education in the region, as a trustee of the charity Juris Angliae Scientia and judge of its annual Central and Eastern European Moot Court.
Research
Research interests
- Contract law
- Tort / Negligence
- Constitutional law
- Legal methodology
Research centres: Cambridge Private Law Centre (CPLC); Centre for Public Law (CPL)
Publications
Selected publications
Mandatory and Default Rules in Contract and Commercial Law
Book
1 February 2026
Hart Publishing
Jonathan Morgan, Katy Barnett, William Day, Andrew Robertson
Frustration Dissected: Mandatory and Default Rules
Chapter
1 February 2026
In Mandatory and Default Rules in Contract and Commercial Law (eds K Barnett, W Day, J Morgan, A Robertson), Hart Publishing
Jonathan Morgan
Tort as a Tool of Government Policy: Section 38 of the Building Act 1984: Sleeping Beauty Awakes?
Chapter
1 July 2025
In Private Law and Building Safety (eds Matthew Bell, Susan Bright, Ben McFarlane and Andrew Robertson), Hart Publishing
Jonathan Morgan
"Contract damages: Of markets, 'loss' and res inter alios acta" (note of The Skyros [2024] EWHC 3139 (Comm))
Journal article
1 July 2025
[2025] CLJ 233
Jonathan Morgan
Review of "The Collaborative Constitution" by Aileen Kavanagh
Journal article
1 March 2025
[2025] CLJ 209-213
Jonathan Morgan
Certainty, Good Faith and ‘Reasonable Endeavours’: Reflections on MUR Shipping
Journal article
1 January 2025
(2025) 2 Contract & Commercial LR 135-154
Jonathan Morgan
Judges, Jurists and Style
Chapter
1 November 2024
In Essays in Law and History for David Ibbetson: Querella (eds Joe Sampson and Stelios Tofaris), Hart Publishing
Jonathan Morgan
Torts on Three Continents: Honouring Jane Stapleton
Book
1 September 2024
Oxford University Press
Jonathan Morgan, Kylie Burns, Jodi Gardner, Sandy Steel
Compensation as ‘Conditional Licence’ for Harmful Activities: An Exploration
Chapter
1 September 2024
In Torts on Three Continents: Honouring Jane Stapleton (eds K Burns, J Gardner, J Morgan, S Steel), Oxford University Press
Jonathan Morgan
Principles, accidents and exceptions: Psychiatric injury in tort (note of Paul v Wolverhampton [2024] UKSC 1)
Journal article
1 July 2024
[2024] CLJ 214 - 217
Jonathan Morgan