Jurisprudence @ UCL

PRINCE SAPRAI LLB (Lond), BCL (Oxon), MPhil (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon) PGCLTHE (UCL) Associate of the Higher Education Academy Lecturer in Laws contact details: Tel: +44 (0)20 3108 5006 | Internal: x55006 | Room 310 Email: p.saprai@ucl.ac.uk Office Hours: Mondays 16:00 - 17:00, Thursdays 12:00 -13:00 Administrator: Ann Tucker Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 1545 | internal: x21545

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Profile
Prince Saprai joined the Faculty of Laws as a Lecturer in 2009. Formerly, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick (2008-2009), and had worked as a Lecturer at Oxford. He also completed his doctorate at Oxford, which was a defence of substantive fairness in contract law.

He is on the Advisory Board for the Centre for Ethics and Law, and the Executive Group of the UCL Science, Medicine & Society Network. He is also Faculty Advisor to the UCL Legal Philosophy Forum.

Research
Prince's main research interests are in private law theory. In particular, he is interested in philosophical puzzles raised by the law of contract and unjust enrichment. He has worked, for example, on the justifiability of defences in contract law, the reasons for restitution in unjust enrichment, the ethical limits of markets, and on how the various braches of private law are differentiated.

Publications
Books:

• G Klass, G Letsas and P Saprai (eds) The Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law (forthcoming OUP Oxford 2014)

Book chapters:

• ‘Mitgation, Fairness and Contract Law’ (with Dr George Letsas) (forthcoming in G Klass, G Letsas and P Saprai (eds) The Philosophical Foundations of Contract Law (OUP Oxford 2014))
• ‘Unconscionable Enrichment?' in R Chambers, C Mitchell and J Penner (eds), Philosophical Foundations of Unjust Enrichment (OUP, Oxford 2009) 417-436

Articles:

• 'The Penalties Rule and the Promise Theory of Contract’ (forthcoming in The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 2013)
• ‘Morality and the Market: Containing the Beast’. Review of What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael Sandel (Penguin London 2012) (forthcoming in International Journal of Law in Context, 2013) [Review Essay]
• ‘Weinrib on Unjust Enrichment' (2011) 24(1) The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 183-204
• 'Measuring Expectation Damages’ (2010) 6 In-Pactum 184-192
• ‘Against Equality of Exchange' (2010) 21(1) King's Law Journal 71-95
• ‘The Principle Against Self-Enslavement in Contract Law' (2009) 26(1) Journal of Contract Law 25-44
• ‘In Defence of Consent in Contract Law' (2007) 18 King's Law Journal 361-370 [Analysis]
• ‘Restitution Without Corrective Justice' (2006) 14 Restitution Law Review 41-54

Book reviews:

• Alleviating Mistakes by AE Farnsworth (OUP Oxford 2004) in (2006) 69 Modern Law Review 661-663
• The Law and Ethics of Restitution by Hanoch Dagan (CUP Cambridge 2004) in (2005) 121 Law Quarterly Review 521-524
• Understanding Unjust Enrichment edited by JW Neyers, M McInnes and SGA Pitel (Hart Oxford 2004) in (2004) 15 King's College Law Journal 468-472

Work in progress:

• ‘The Intention to Create Legal Relations and the Scope of Contract Law’
• ‘Contract Law Without Foundations’ (co-authored with Dr George Letsas)

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Current Teaching
Undergraduate
Contract (convenor)
Jurisprudence and Legal Theory

Graduate
Jurisprudence and Legal Theory

PhD Supervision
Prince welcomes approaches for supervision from prospective PhD students. He is currently supervising:

• Anna Donovan (second supervisor)
• Kristi Gourlay (second supervisor)
• Radosveta Vassileva (second supervisor)
  

page updated on 7 May, 2013