Professor Christina Perry, AB (Princeton) JD (Virginia), Member of the New York State Bar, Solicitor

Profile

Christina joined Queen Mary in September 2011. She teaches Law 4104: Contract Law I, Formation and Vitiation, and Law 4105: Contract Law II, Terms, Breach and Remedies. Previously, she was a Lecturer at The City Law School.

Christina practiced law at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Debevoise & Plimpton LLP for seven years prior to entering academic life. She has experience in significant corporate transactions, including private equity transactions, Regulation S/Rule 144A equity offerings, project financings and internal corporate investigations. She is admitted to practice in New York State as well as in England and Wales. Christina’s research interests include accent bias in the legal profession, comparative contract law, legal education, and comparative banking regulation in the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada.

Undergraduate Teaching

• Law 4104: Contract Law I, Formation and Vitiation
• Law 4105: Contract Law II, Terms, Breach and Remedies

Research

Publications

• “The importance of ‘acting yourself into new ways of thinking’: preliminary findings on the impact of embedding workplace experiences in law degrees to positively impact student skills growth, degree results and employment outcomes before and during a global pandemic” with Nigel Spencer. Legal Studies (2023), 1–23. doi:10.1017/lst.2023.18
• “Duties of Good Faith in Wholesale Financial Contracts” with Financial Markets Law Committee Working Group, 2 November 2022
• “Good Faith in English and US Contract Law: Divergent Theories, Practical Similarities” [2016] Business Law International 17 (1).