Professor Donal Nolan
About
Donal Nolan is Professor of Private Law in the University of Oxford and Francis Reynolds and Clarendon Fellow and Tutor in Law at Worcester College, Oxford. Professor Nolan's research is focused primarily on the law of tort, and in particular on the law of negligence, the law of private nuisance and the interface between tort law and public law. He has also written on a range of topics in contract law, including offer and acceptance, estoppel and termination for breach of contract, and has an interest in the history of legal scholarship.
Professor Nolan was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford (BA and BCL) and was previously a Lecturer in Law at King's College London. He has taught tort, contract, international trade law, restitution and commercial law, and has been a Visiting Professor in the University of Florida, the National University of Singapore, the University of Trento and Sichuan University. He is a Senior Fellow of the University of Melbourne, a founding member of the World Tort Law Society, and an elected member of the American Law Institute (ALI). He is also a member of the International Advisory Panel for the ALI's Restatement of the Law Fourth, Property, and a member of the editorial committee of the Modern Law Review.
Expertise
- Law of tort
- Negligence law
- Nuisance (neighbour) law
- Product liability
- Liability of public authorities
- Medical negligence
- AI liability
- Liability for psychiatric injury
Selected publications
- Questions of Liability: Essays on the Law of Tort (Hart Publishing, 2023)
- Lunney & Oliphant’s Tort Law: Text and Materials (7th edition, OUP, 2023)
- Contributory Negligence (2nd edition, OUP, 2023)
- Winfield and Jolowicz on Tort (20th edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2020)
- Contributory Negligence in the Twenty-First Century (OUP, 2019)
- A Critique of Chester v Afshar (Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2014)
- Damage in the English Law of Negligence (Journal of European Tort Law, 2013)
- Negligence and Human Rights Law: The Case for Separate Development (The Modern Law Review, 2013)
Media experience
Professor Donal Nolan's experience includes interviews for broadcast and print media, most recently for a piece in The Guardian on the Tate Gallery nuisance case (the article was published on 6 December 2021 - see opposite).
