Peter Birks
Peter Birks (3 October 1941 – 6 July 2004) was the Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1989 until his death. He was a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is widely credited as having sparked academic enthusiasm for the English law of Restitution.
Bibliography
;Books- An Introduction to the Law of Restitution (1988)
- Unjust Enrichment (Clarendon 2004)
- 'Before We Begin: Five Keys to Land Law', in S Bright & J Dewar, Land Law: Themes and Perspectives (OUP 1998) 457-86
- ' Compulsory Subjects: Will the Seven Foundations ever Crumble?' 1995 1 Web JCLI
- ' The Implied Contract Theory of Quasi-Contract: Civilian Opinion Current in the Century before Blackstone' (1986) 6(1) OJLS 46–85