Thesis title
'Defending consideration'
Supervisors
Professor Emmanuel Voyiakis and Dr Nick Sage
Research interests
Josiah’s private law research focuses on the doctrine of consideration in English law. He aims to clarify what consideration is, explain its effects and then justify and defend its existence by exploring principled and pragmatic reasons for its coherence.
Josiah’s cyberlaw research focuses on the tangible impacts of AI on the social contract within liberal Western contexts. He explores the delegation of authoritative decision-making to AI in legal contexts and its implications for justice, accountability, privacy, state control, and civil liberties.
About me
Josiah is a PhD Candidate in Law at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳.
Prior to joining ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳, Josiah taught contract, tort and jurisprudence at the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. He regularly publishes and reviews articles in leading law journals, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies and Modern Law Review. As a taught student, he served as Articles Editor of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Review and Harvard Business Law Review. He was also a research assistant to Dr Andrew Summers for his book Mitigation in the Law of Damages (OUP 2024).
He is also an entrepreneur, which sparked his interest in cyberlaw. He is a repeat founder (with two exits) and operator, having also been an early employee at the pan-European payments decacorn, Teya.
Josiah holds an LLB from the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ (2019), LLM from Harvard Law School (2020) and BCL from the University of Oxford (2021). He also completed the Bar Vocational Course at City University (2022).
Publications
“Negotiating Damages and the Compensatory Principle”, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, March 2020, Pages 110–131.
“The Last Stand: Foakes v Beer”, Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, Part 4, November 2018, Pages 552-560.
“Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Contractual Promises after Rock Advertising v MWB”, Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal, Volume 18, Issue 2, October 2018, Pages 150-162.
Awards/Scholarships
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law School PhD Studentship [2024]
Gray’s Inn Residential Scholarship [2021]
11KBW Scholarship [2021]
Baroness Hale of Richmond Scholarship [2021]
City Law School Scholarship for Academic Excellence [2021]
Black Heart Foundation Scholarship [2021]
Oxford Faculty of Law Scholarship [2020]
4 New Square Chambers Scholarship [2020]
Harvard Law School Project on the Foundations of Private Law Fellowship [2020]
Kennedy Scholarship [2019]
Commercial Bar Association Scholarship [2018]
ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳100 Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement [2018]
LL275 Prize for Best Performance [2018]
PwC Lord Benson Scholarship [2016]