Dr Andrew Bell
BA (Hons), LLM, PhD
Expertise
My research and teaching interests centre on private law (primarily tort and contract) from doctrinal, comparative and historical perspectives. I have recently been focused on both liability for employees and factual uncertainty
Current positions
Lecturer
University of Bristol Law School
Contact
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Research interests
My research lies in private law, particularly the law of torts, and employs doctrinal, comparative and historical methods.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Known Unknowns: Legal Responses to Intractable Factual Uncertainties
Principal Investigator
Description
This project investigates, from a comparative historical perspective, the ways in which the law frames and responds to problems of intractable factual uncertainty.
Where our ordinary evidential rules simply cannot produce…Managing organisational unit
University of Bristol Law SchoolDates
01/09/2018 to 31/12/2025
Publications
Recent publications
14/07/2023The law and the state in states of uncertainty
Fault-based and Strict Liabilities: Forms and Features in the English Common Law
Fault-based and Strict Liability.
‘Deciding on the Unknown: Can we handle the truth? (And do we even want to?)’
Responsibility to make certain: breaking intractable ties
Known Unknowns: Legal Responses to Intractable Uncertainties in Comparative and Historical Perspective (working title)
Known Unknowns: Legal Responses to Intractable Uncertainties in Comparative and Historical Perspective (working title)
