Irina  

SAKHAROVA

Irina Sakharova is a Lecturer in Contract Law at Durham Law School, where she is also a member of the Institute for Commercial and Corporate Law and of the Durham Centre for Law and Philosophy. She teaches contract law and legal philosophy and has been convening the undergraduate contract law module.

Dr Sakharova’s research is situated in private law and legal philosophy, and most centrally in contract law, contract theory, and comparative contract law, and is currently focused on the nature of contractual rights and persons’ power to contract. She is also particularly interested in the intersections between contract and property, on the one hand, and between contracts and other obligations, on the other hand.

Dr Sakharova earned her MJur degree from the University of Oxford, where she was a Hill Foundation Scholar and an Associate Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal. She completed a PhD under the supervision of Professor James Penner at NUS Law, where she was a Graduate Research Scholar and then an NUS President’s Graduate Fellow. Her PhD thesis, Understanding the Legal Power to Contract, was awarded the Wang Gungwu Medal and Prize for the Best PhD Thesis in the Social Sciences and Humanities.