Publications by Professor Jonathan Morgan

Full list of publications by Professor Jonathan Morgan.

  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Frustration Dissected: Mandatory and Default Rules’, in Mandatory and Default Rules in Contract and Commercial Law (eds K Barnett, W Day, J Morgan, A Robertson), Hart Publishing, 2026
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Tort as a Tool of Government Policy: Section 38 of the Building Act 1984: Sleeping Beauty Awakes?’, in Private Law and Building Safety (eds Matthew Bell, Susan Bright, Ben McFarlane and Andrew Robertson), Hart Publishing, 2025
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Judges, Jurists and Style’, in Essays in Law and History for David Ibbetson: Querella (eds Joe Sampson and Stelios Tofaris), Hart Publishing, 2024
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Compensation as ‘Conditional Licence’ for Harmful Activities: An Exploration’, in Torts on Three Continents: Honouring Jane Stapleton (eds K Burns, J Gardner, J Morgan, S Steel), Oxford University Press, 2024
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘The British Politics of Medical Negligence Reform: ‘Protecting Our NHS’ from Claims in Tort’, in Politics, Policy and Private Law Volume I: Tort, Property and Equity (eds J Gardner, A Goymour, J O'Sullivan, S Worthington), Hart Publishing, 2024
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Professor Ian Roderick Macneil (1929–2010)’, in Scholars of Contract Law (eds James Goudkamp and Donal Nolan), Hart Publishing, 2022
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Compulsion, Choice and Statutory Intervention in Contract: Implied Terms of Quality in Sale of Goods’, in Contract Law and the Legislature (eds TT Arvind and Jenny Steele), Hart Publishing, 2020
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Opting for ‘Documentary Fundamentalism’ : Respecting Party Choice for Entire Agreement and Non-Reliance Clauses’, in Contents of Commercial Contracts: Terms Affecting Freedoms (eds Paul S Davies & Magda Raczynska), Hart Publishing, 2020
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Contract law as regulation: Relational and formalist approaches’, in Great Debates in Commercial and Corporate Law (eds Andrew Johnston and Lorraine Talbolt), Palgrave Macmillan, 2020
  • Jonathan Morgan, D Campbell, R Halson, ‘Contract Damages as Default Rules’, in Research Handbook on Remedies in Private Law (eds David Campbell and Roger Halson), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019
  • Jonathan Morgan, Warren Swain, David Campbell, ‘Bargain’, in Reimagining Contract Law Pedagogy: A New Agenda for Teaching (eds Warren Swain and David Campbell), Routledge, 2019
  • Jonathan Morgan, Graham Virgo, Sarah Worthington, ‘On the Nature and Function of Remedies for Breach of Contract’, in Commercial Remedies: Resolving Controversies (eds Sarah Worthington and Graham Virgo), 2017
  • Jonathan Morgan, Roger Brownsword, Eloise Scotford, Karen Yeung, ‘Torts and Technology’, in The Oxford Handbook of Law, Regulation, and Technology (eds Roger Brownsword, Eloise Scotford, and Karen Yeung), Oxford University Press, 2017
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘In defence of Baird Textiles: A sceptical view of relational contract law’, in Changing Concepts of Contract: Essays in Honour of Ian Macneil (eds David Campbell, Linda Mulcahy and Sally Wheeler), Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
  • Jonathan Morgan, Reiner Schulze, ‘The right of withdrawal’, in The Common European Sales Law in Context: Interactions with English and German Law (eds Gerhard Dannemann and Stefan Vogenauer), Oxford University Press, 2013
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Reflections on reforming punitive damages in English law’, in The Power of Punitive Damages: Is Europe Missing Out? (eds Lotte Meurkens and Emily Nordin), Intersentia, 2012
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Causation, politics and law: The English--and Scottish--asbestos saga’, in Perspectives on Causation (eds Richard Goldberg), Hart Publishing, 2011
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Amateur Operatics: The Realization of Parliamentary Protection of Civil Liberties’, in The Legal Protection of Human Rights: Sceptical Essays (eds Tom Campbell, KD Ewing and Adam Tomkins), Oxford University Press, 2011
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Technological change and the development of liability for fault in England and Wales’, in The Development of Liability in Relation to Technological Change (eds Miquel Martin-Casals), 2010
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Central Government in English Common Law; Constitutional Law in English Common Law; Parliament’, in Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (eds Stanley N Katz), Oxford University Press, 2009
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Liability insurance’, in New Oxford Companion to Law (eds Peter Cane and Joanne Conaghan), Oxford University Press, 2008
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Certainty, Good Faith and ‘Reasonable Endeavours’: Reflections on MUR Shipping’, (2025) 2 Contract & Commercial LR 135-154, L'Harmattan
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Equality at the contract-tort boundary: levelling up or levelling down?’, (2022) 38 Prof Neg 135-161
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘IRAL's missing remedy: Compensation for unlawfulness’, U.K. Const. L. Blog (12th October 2021)
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘In Praise of Flexibility: Clause 1 of the Judicial Review and Courts Bill 2021’, U.K. Const. L. Blog (23rd Sept. 2021)
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Covid-19 and False Imprisonment’, U.K. Const. L. Blog (3rd Nov. 2020)
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘"O Lord make me pure--But not yet": Granting time for the amendment of unlawful legislation’, (2019) 135 LQR 585
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Nonfeasance and the end of policy? Reflections on the revolution in public authority liability’, (2019) 35 Prof Neg 32-53
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Common mistake in contract: Rare success and common misapprehensions’, [2018] CLJ 559-569
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Abolishing personal injuries law? A response to Lord Sumption’, (2018) 34 Prof Neg 122-142
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Contracting for self-denial: on enforcing "no oral modification" clauses’, [2017] CLJ 589-615
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Law, Politics and the Independence of the Judiciary in the United Kingdom: Reflections on the “Brexit litigation”’, (2016) 25 Commonwealth Lawyer 7-12, 2017
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘A Brexit general election?’, (2016) UK Constitutional Law Blog
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘On the intractability of the human rights debate’, (2016) Judicial Power Project
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Vicarious liability for independent contractors?’, (2015) 31 Prof Neg 235-258
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Smuggling mitigation into White & Carter v McGregor: Time to come clean?’, [2015] LMCLQ 575-594
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Liability for Independent Contractors in Contract and Tort: Duties to Ensure that Care is Taken’, [2015] CLJ 109–139
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Strict Liability for Police Nonfeasance? The Kinghan Report on the Riot (Damages) Act 1886’, (2014) 77 MLR 434-459
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘A mare's nest? The Jockey Club and judicial review of sports governing bodies’, (2012) 12 Legal Information Management 102
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Policy reasoning in tort law: The courts, the Law Commission and the critics’, (2009) 125 LQR 215
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Against judicial review of discretionary contractual powers’, [2008] LMCLQ 230
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘The rise and fall of the general duty of care’, (2006) 22 Prof Neg 206
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Tort, insurance and incoherence’, (2004) 67 MLR 384
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Privacy, confidence and horizontal effect’, [2003] CLJ 444
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Law's British Empire’, (2002) 22 OJLS 729
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Questioning the True Effect of the Human Rights Act’, [2002] Legal Studies 259
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Nuisance and the unruly tenant’, [2001] CLJ 382
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘"Contract damages: Of markets, 'loss' and res inter alios acta" (note of The Skyros [2024] EWHC 3139 (Comm))’, [2025] CLJ 233
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Principles, accidents and exceptions: Psychiatric injury in tort (note of Paul v Wolverhampton [2024] UKSC 1)’, [2024] CLJ 214 - 217
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘A riddle wrapped in an enigma: Assumption of responsibility, again (note of HXA v Surrey CC [2022] EWCA Civ 1196)’, [2022] CLJ 449-452
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Maintaining the elegant facade of the acts-omissions distinction (note of Tindall v Chief Constable of Thames Valley [2022] EWCA Civ 25)’, [2022] CLJ 245-248
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘The thin end of the wedge: Morality, contract law and lawful act duress (Times Travel v Pakistan International Airlines [2021] UKSC 40)’, [2022] CLJ 17-20
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Frustration and the pandemic’, (2021) 137 LQR 563-568
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Pseudo-codification of the public-interest defence in defamation (Serafin v Malkiewicz [2020] UKSC 23)’, [2020] CLJ 398-401
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘(Net) curtains for modern architecture? Privacy, nuisance and human rights (Fearn v Tate Gallery [2019] EWHC 246 (Ch))’, [2019] CLJ 273-276
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Novely in negligence: Policy reasoning survives (James-Bowen v MPC [2018] UKSC 40)’, [2019] CLJ 15-18
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘The outer limits of 'personal injury' (Dryden v Johnson Matthey plc [2018] UKSC 18)’, [2018] CLJ 461-464
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Parallel lines that never meet: Tort and the ECHR again (DSD v Metropolitan Police Commissioner [2018] UKSC 11)’, [2018] CLJ 244-248
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Repudiatory breach: Inability, election and discharge (MSC v Cottonex [2016] EWCA Civ 789)’, [2017] CLJ 11
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘The Penalty Clause Doctrine: Unloveable but Untouchable (Beavis v ParkingEye; Cavendish Square v El Makdessi)’, [2016] CLJ 11-14
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Reinterpreting the reinterpretation of the reinterpretation of Fairchild (IEG v Zurich Insurance)’, [2015] CLJ 395
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Tumultuous controversy: Police liability for rioting (Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance v Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (CA))’, [2015] CLJ 398
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Resisting judicial review of discretionary contractual powers (Braganza v BP Shipping Ltd)’, [2015] LMCLQ 483
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Mitigation and the date for assessment of damages in sales of land (Hooper v. Oates [2013] EWCA Civ 91)’, (2013) 29 Jo Prof Neg 125
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Negligence: Into Battle (Smith v. MoD [2012] EWCA 1365)’, [2013] CLJ 14-17
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Manslaughter as a "vicissitude of life" (Gray v. Thames Trains)’, [2009] CLJ 503
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Causation and the compulsive gambler (note of Calvert v. William Hill)’, [2009] CLJ 268
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Note of The Golden Victory, House of Lords’, [2007] CLJ 263
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Note of Re Pleural Plaques Litigation, Court of Appeal’, [2006] CLJ 269
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Note of Douglas v. Hello! (No. 2), Court of Appeal’, [2005] CLJ 549
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Note of Jackson v. Royal Bank of Scotland, House of Lords’, [2005] CLJ 285
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Note of Gregg v. Scott, House of Lords’, [2005] LMCLQ 281
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Slowing the expansion of public authorities' liability (note of Gorringe v. Calderdale MBC)’, (2005) 121 LQR 43
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Privacy in the House of Lords, again (note of Campbell v. MGN)’, (2004) 120 LQR 563
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Privacy torts: out with the old, out with the new (note of Wainwright v. Home Office, House of Lords)’, (2004) 120 LQR 393
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Lost causes in the House of Lords (note of Fairchild v. Glenhaven Funeral Services)’, (2003) 66 MLR 277
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Jus suum cuique (note of Vellino v. Chief Constable of Manchester, Court of Appeal)’, (2002) 118 LQR 527
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Nuisance, property and human rights (note of Marcic v. Thames Water Utilities, QBD)’, (2002) 118 LQR 27
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of "The Collaborative Constitution" by Aileen Kavanagh’, [2025] CLJ 209-213
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of "Private Law in Context" by Marc Loth’, (2024) 140 LQR 160-163, 2023
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of Sceptical Perspectives on the Changing Constitution of the United Kingdom edited by Richard Johnson and Yuan Yi Zhu’, (2023) 139 LQR 686
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of: Vicarious Liability: Critique and Reform by Anthony Gray, and of Reconceptualising Strict Liability for the Tort of Another by Christine Beuermann’, (2021) 137 LQR 347-352
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of Trials of the State: Law and the Decline of Politics by Lord Sumption’, (2020) 136 LQR 340-343
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of Sanctity of Contracts in a Secular Age: Equity, Fairness and Enrichment by Stephen Waddams’, (2020) 136 LQR 169-173
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of A Company's Right to Damages for Non-Pecuniary Loss by Vanessa Wilcox’, (2019) 135 LQR 172-175
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of The Dignity of Commerce; Markets and the Moral Foundations of Contract Law by Nathan B Oman’, (2018) 134 LQR 677-680
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of Lord Sumption and the Limits of Law, edited by NW Barber, Richard Ekins and Paul Yowell’, (2018) 134 LQR 160-164, 2017
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of Entick v Carrington: 250 Years of the Rule of Law, edited by Adam Tomkins and Paul Scott’, (2017) 133 LQR 529-533
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of A History of Tort Law 1900-1950 by Paul Mitchell’, (2016) 132 LQR 688
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of Leading Cases in Song by Stephen Todd’, (2015) 131 LQR 166
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of Tort Law and the Legislature: Common Law, Statute and the Dynamics of Legal Change edited by TT Arvind and Jenny Steele’, (2013) 129 LQR 640
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of Mistake and Non-Disclosure of Fact by Hugh Beale’, (2013) 129 LQR 458
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of Networks as Connected Contracts by Gunther Teubner (translated by Michelle Everson), edited with an introduction by Hugh Collins’, (2012) 128 LQR 472
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of Bonfire of the Liberties: New Labour, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law by KD Ewing’, (2011) 127 LQR 316
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of Emerging Issues in Tort Law edited by Jason Neyers et al’, (2009) 125 LQR 181
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of The Making of the Modern Law of Defamation by Paul Mitchell’, (2006) 122 LQR 691
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of A History of Water Rights at Common Law by Joshua Getzler’, (2005) 26 Journal of Legal History 216
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of Public Law in a Multi-Layered Constitution edited by Nicholas Bamforth and Peter Leyland’, [2004] CLJ 244
  • Jonathan Morgan, ‘Review of Private Property and Abuse of Rights in Victorian England by Michael Taggart’, (2003) 119 LQR 531