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Aaron Taylor

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Aaron Taylor

Position

Visiting Research Fellow

Department

Law

Email

law (@gold.ac.uk)

Aaron is a commercial barrister. He works on the law relating to fraud & financial crime, and art & cultural property.

I'm a barrister in full-time practice at Fountain Court Chambers. My practice covers art law, commercial disputes, banking and financial services, energy, aviation, civil fraud and business crime.

My main academic interest is in the law concerning art and cultural property. I am also interested in the law relating to civil fraud, financial crime, and corruption.

I'm currently working on a book that brings these topics together, about fraud and financial crime in the art market.

Academic qualifications

  • BA History, University of Bristol (First; top of year) 2013
  • BA (MA) Law, St Edmund's College, Cambridge (Double First) 2015
  • Bachelor of Civil Law (postgraduate), Keble College, Oxford (Distinction) 2016

Teaching and supervision

Featured publications

2020: ‘Civil Bribery’ in Lissack and Horlick on Bribery (LexisNexis, 2020) (with Nico Leslie)
Overview of the civil law (and private international law) concerning bribery: a chapter in the leading practitioner text on bribery

2019: 'Concurrent Duties' (2019) 82 MLR 17
Offers an account of the doctrine of concurrent liability in private law

2019: 'In search of the ratio decidendi' (2019) 135 LQR 556
Case note on R (Youngsam) v Parole Board [2019] EWCA CIV 229, discussing the doctrine of precedent in English law

2019: ‘Avoiding blockchain contracts’ (2019) JIBFL 586 (with Nik Yeo)
Considers whether - and if so how - the doctrine of recission might apply to contracts on the blockchain

2017: 'Interpretation of Industry-Standard Contracts' (2017) LMCLQ 261
Considers the principles that should apply to the interpretation of industry-standard forms of contract

Professional projects

I'm a member of the Serious Fraud Office 'C Panel' - a panel of junior counsel authorised to be instructed by the SFO on international proceeds of crime cases.

From October 2018 to March 2019, I was a Judicial Assistant at the Commercial Court (a branch of the High Court) in London.

I am called to the Bar of England & Wales (2017) and the Bar of the British Virgin Islands (2019).