Rachel 
LEOW

 
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Rachel Leow is an Associate Professor of Law at the LSE Law School.  Rachel is a private lawyer whose main research expertise and interests span three broad areas: agency law, the law of unjust enrichment and restitution, and trusts and commercial equity. She also has a special interest in corporate attribution in private law, the subject-matter of her doctorate and first monograph, Corporate Attribution in Private Law (Hart Publishing 2022). Her work has been cited with approval by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, High Court of Australia, and the Singapore Court of Appeal.

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In Residence

2 June 2025 to 1 June 2026

Rachel Leow is an Associate Professor of Law at the LSE Law School.  Rachel is a private lawyer whose main research expertise and interests span three broad areas: agency law, the law of unjust enrichment and restitution, and trusts and commercial equity. She also has a special interest in corporate attribution in private law, the subject-matter of her doctorate and first monograph, Corporate Attribution in Private Law (Hart Publishing 2022). Her work has been cited with approval by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, High Court of Australia, and the Singapore Court of Appeal.

Before coming to the LSE, Rachel was Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, where she also read law as an undergraduate. She then moved to the University of Cambridge, where she completed her LLM and PhD at Downing College. At Cambridge, she won the Gareth Jones Prize for the Law of Restitution with the then-highest mark on record. She also won the Chancellor’s Medal for English Law, which is awarded to a candidate of exceptional merit in English law. At NUS, she won the university-wide University Annual Teaching Excellence Award once and the Faculty of Law Annual Teaching Excellence Award twice.

Her LSE website is here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/law/people/academic-staff/rachel-leow

 

  • Agency Law
  • Law of Unjust Enrichment and Restitution
  • Trusts and Commercial Equity