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Dr Paul MacMahon

Dr Paul MacMahon

Associate Professor of Law

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law School

Room No
Cheng Kin Ku Building 5.10
Languages
English
Key Expertise
Contracts, Dispute Resolution

About me

Paul MacMahon is an Associate Professor of Law at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law School and the Director of the Executive LLM Programme. His primary interests are contracts, commercial law, and international arbitration. Before coming to the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, Paul taught at Harvard and Cambridge. He studied at Oxford (BA, BCL, DPhil) and Harvard (JD), and served as a law clerk in the United States for Judge Guido Calabresi and Judge John Gleeson. Paul also worked as a litigation lawyer in New York City and remains a member of the New York Bar. In addition to teaching at ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, Paul is a regular Visiting Professor at Católica Global School of Law in Lisbon. He has served as an expert on English law in foreign court proceedings.

Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk

Research interests

  • Contracts
  • Commercial Law
  • International Arbitration

Teaching

Articles

  • 'Compensation After Cancellation for Sellers' Negligent Delay' [2025] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly (forthcoming)
  • '' (2024) Modern Law Review  
  • ‘Reliance’ in Mindy Chen-Wishart and Prince Saprai (eds), Research Handbook on the Philosophy of Contract Law (forthcoming, Elgar Publishing)
  • ‘  inKöhler, Gulati and Thomas, (eds.) The Elgar Companion to UNIDROIT. Elgar Companions to International Organisations series (Elgar, 2024)
  • '' [2023] Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 1999
  • (2020) 79 Cambridge Law Journal 288
  • (2020) 95 Indiana Law Journal 485
  •  Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2018) 38, pp.270-298 
  • Administrative Law Review (2017) 69 pp.529-584
  • Buffalo Law Review 63 (2015): 477-547 (with Deirdre Mask)
  • Minnesota Law Review (2015) 99 (6) 2051-2110
  • Yale Law and Policy Review, 2015
  • 34 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 545-610 (2013)
  • 1 Ir. L.J. 2 (2012)