Prof. Whittaker Simon
University of Oxford
Note Biografiche
Simon Whittaker is Fellow and Tutor in Law at St. John’s College and Professor of European Comparative Law at the University of Oxford. He studied law at Oxford (BA 1979; BCL 1980; DPhil 1987) and was a law lecturer at King’s College London (1982-87); he was awarded the degree of DCL by Oxford in 2008. He has written widely on the English law of contract and tort and on comparative law and EU law topics within the same areas, including Liability for Products: English Law, French Law and European Harmonization (OUP, 2006); (with R. Zimmermann) Good Faith in European Contract Law (CUP, 2000); (with J. Bell and S. Boyron) Principles of French Law (1st edn., 1998; 2nd edn., OUP 2008); he has been an editor of Chitty on Contracts since 1989.