Mindy Chen-Wishart
{{Short description|Taiwanese-New Zealand professor of law at Oxford University}}
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Mindy Chen-Wishart is an Emeritus professor of the law of contract and was the Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.{{cite web |url=https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/mindy-chen-wishart |title=Mindy Chen-Wishart |author= |date= |website= |publisher=Faculty of Law, University of Oxford |access-date=2 October 2021 |quote=}} She was a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Merton College, Oxford.{{cite web |url=https://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-mindy-chen-wishart |title=Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart |author= |date= |website= |publisher=Merton College, Oxford |access-date=2 October 2021 |quote=}} She has written numerous articles on contract law and the law of obligations. Her work has been adopted the Canadian Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of England and Wales.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}
Biography
Born in Taiwan, she was brought up in New Zealand. She began her academic career at the University of Otago, where she completed a master's degree in 1987,{{cite thesis |last=Chen-Wishart |first=Mindy |year=1987 |type=Masters thesis |title=Unconscionable bargains : what are the courts doing? |publisher=OUR Archive, University of Otago |hdl=10523/3335 |url=https://ourarchive.otago.ac.nz/handle/10523/3335}} then moving to Oxford, initially as a research fellow funded by the Rhodes Trust.{{cite web |url=https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/mindy-chen-wishart |title=Mindy Chen-Wishart |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=15 April 2022}}{{cite web |url=http://rhodesproject.com/mindy-chen-wishart-profile |title=Mindy Chen-Wishart Profile |publisher=The Rhodes Project |access-date=15 April 2022}}
In 2021, she called for anti-racism training across Oxford University, relying on personal anecdotal material.{{cite news |last=Turner |first=Camilla |date=3 August 2021 |title=Oxford porters stop me because of my skin colour, says senior don |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/08/03/oxford-porters-question-right-enter-college-time-says-dean-law/ |work=Daily Telegraph |location= |access-date=12 December 2021}} She launched the #RaceMeToo Twitter campaign to draw attention to racism allegedly faced by affected academics.{{cite news |last=Garicano |first=Pieter |title=Dean of the Faculty of Law launches #RaceMeToo |url=https://cherwell.org/2021/07/31/dean-of-the-faculty-of-law-launches-racemetoo/ |work=Cherwell |access-date=15 April 2022}}
A notable doctoral student of Chen-Wishart is Jodi Gardner, Brian Coot Chair in Private Law at the University of Auckland.{{Cite thesis |title=How to Approach High-Cost Credit : Beyond Freedom and Protection |last=Gardner |first=Jodi |type=DPhil |publisher=University of Oxford |url=https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:4110a28d-9668-4c48-9d70-f7c070d859bd |date=2018}}
Publications
- Unconscionable Bargains (Butterworths 1989) {{ISBN|978-0409788815}}
- Contract Law (OUP, 1st edn 2005, 6th edn 2018) {{ISBN|978-0198806356}}
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Category:Fellows of Merton College, Oxford
Category:Legal scholars of the University of Oxford
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