Tim is interested in all aspects of private law, especially contracts, unjust enrichment and restitution, commercial remedies, and private law theory. His work has been cited by the High Court of Australia, Singapore High Court and Court of Appeal, and in Goff & Jones on Unjust Enrichment, Lewin on Trusts, and Chitty on Contracts. He is the author of Standing in Private Law (OUP 2023), which won the Society of Legal Scholars’ Peter Birks prize.
Tim graduated from NUS Law in 2014 as top student. He then departed for graduate studies at Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar, where he read for the BCL (2016), MPhil (2017), and the DPhil (2020). Before joining the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2022, he was Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at NUS. Prior to that he was Stipendiary Lecturer in Law at Merton College, Oxford, where he also taught Commercial Remedies for the faculty on the BCL.
His LSE page can be found here: https://www.lse.ac.uk/law/people/academic-staff/timothy-liau
