Paul Macmahon

Paul MacMahon is an Assistant Professor of Law at the LSE Law School. His primary teaching and research interests are contracts, legal procedure, and the intersection of these two fields; his future work will encompass arbitration and private international law. Paul’s articles have appeared in journals on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Cambridge Law Journal, Indiana Law Journal and Yale Journal of Law and Public Policy. Before coming to the LSE, 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 at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York City. He remains a member of the New York Bar.

Research interests

• Contracts
• Commercial Law
• Civil Procedure
• Arbitration
• Private International Law

Publications

Articles

• ‘Reliance’ in Mindy Chen-Wishart and Prince Saprai (eds), Research Handbook on the Philosophy of Contract Law (forthcoming, Elgar Publishing)
• ‘A Common Law Perspective on the Principles of International Commercial Contracts’ in Thomas John, Rishi Gulati, and Ben Köhler (eds), The Elgar Companion to UNIDROIT (forthcoming, Elgar Publishing)
• 'Rethinking Assignability' (2020) 79 Cambridge Law Journal 288
• 'Contract Law's Transferability Bias' (2020) 95 Indiana Law Journal 485
• 'Conflict and Contract Law' Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (2018) 38, pp.270-298
• 'Soft Adjudication'Administrative Law Review (2017) 69 pp.529-584
• 'The Revolutionary War Prize Cases and the Origins of Diversity Jurisdiction'Buffalo Law Review 63 (2015): 477-547 (with Deirdre Mask)
• 'Good Faith and Fair Dealing as an Underenforced Legal Norm'Minnesota Law Review (2015) 99 (6) 2051-2110
• 'The Inquest and the Virtues of Soft Adjudication'Yale Law and Policy Review, 2015
• 'Proceduralism, Civil Justice, and American Legal Thought' 34 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law 545-610 (2013)
• 'Self-Service Search Warrants and International Terrorism' 1 Ir. L.J. 2 (2012)