
Professor Paula Giliker
B.A., M.A., B.C.L.(Oxon.), Ph.D.(Cantab.)
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Professor in Comparative Law
University of Bristol Law School
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Biography
Paula Giliker is Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Bristol, having previously worked at the Universities of Oxford and Queen Mary, University of London. She is a former Chair of the British Association of Comparative Law, former Honorary Secretary of the Society of Legal Scholars of the UK and Ireland (SLS) and will be SLS President from October 2023. She has published extensively on comparative private law, tort law, contract law and European private law and is a visiting professor at the Universities of Valencia and Hong Kong.
Her publications include: Giliker (ed), Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World (2022), 'Codification, Consolidation, Restatement? How best to systemise the modern law of tort' (2021) 70 ICLQ 271, 'Analysing institutional liability for child sexual abuse in England and Wales and Australia: Vicarious liability, non-delegable duties and statutory intervention' (2019) 77 CLJ 506, ‘The Consumer Rights Act 2015: A bastion of European consumer rights?’ (2017) 37 Legal Studies 78–102, ‘The influence of EU and European human rights law on English private law’ (2015) 64 ICLQ 237-265 and monographs: The Europeanisation of English Tort Law (Hart, 2014) and Vicarious liability in Tort: A Comparative Perspective (CUP, 2010). A leading comparative law scholar, she is on the editorial board of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly, international editorial board of the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, advisory board of the European Review of Private Law, an Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and contributes to renowned common law tort practitioners’ text, Clerk and Lindsell on Torts.
Research interests
Comparative private law, tort law, contract law, European private law
Projects and supervisions
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Selected publications
01/09/2021Economic Wrongs and Private Nuisance: A Common Law Perspective
Economic Torts and Economic Wrongs
Can the Supreme Court halt the ongoing expansion of vicarious liability
Tottel's Journal of Professional Negligence
Codification, Consolidation, Restatement?
International and Comparative Law Quarterly
Adopting a smart approach to EU legislation: Why has it proven so difficult to introduce a directive on contracts for the supply of digital content?
EU Internet Law in the Digital Era
Is there a Duty to Prevent Harm in Tort? A Common Law Perspective
Journal of European Tort Law
Recent publications
01/01/2024Chapter 14: Strict liability
Fleming's The Law of Torts
Chapter 17: Vicarious liability
Fleming's Law of Torts
Chapter 19: Nuisance
Fleming's Law of Torts
Reforming Consumer Law in the Digital Market post-Brexit – An EU-UK-Irish Divide?
Disruption, Innovation and Re-alignment in UK Consumer Law and Policy
Protecting Privacy Through the Tort of Private Nuisance
Journal of Commonwealth Law