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Achas Burin

Assistant Professor

PGR Group Member (Scholarships)

Private Law Theory (Tort, Medical Law, and Property); Public Inquiries

School of Law
B1.04, Social Sciences Building
University of 糖心TV
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom


Office hours (T1 and T2):

Tuesday: 16:00-17:00

Wednesday: 10:00-11:00

achas.burin@warwick.ac.uk

Achas' research interests centre around private law theory (tort, medical law and property) and on public inquiries.

Her interests include:

  • legal theory (jurisprudence);
  • tort law and its theory;
  • property law and theory;
  • medical law and ethics;
  • postcolonial and decolonial approaches to scholarship;
  • and certain aspects of public law, notably public inquiries and human rights.

Her ORCiD record can be found , and her Google Scholar profile .

Publications

  • 鈥楢 鈥渞ight not to be offended鈥 under Article 10(2)? 鈥 Concerns in the construction of the 鈥渞ights of others鈥濃 [2012] European Human Rights Law Review 191-204
    • Cited by the High Court of Australia in Monis v the Queen [2013] HCA 4
  • What does it mean to suffer loss?鈥 (2014) 77(6) Modern Law Review 994-1008
  • 鈥楤eyond pragmatism: defending the 鈥渂right line鈥 of birth鈥 (2014) 22(4) Medical Law Review 494-525
  • Coventry v Lawrence: the unbearable burden of one鈥檚 wrongdoing鈥 (2015) 34(4) Civil Justice Quarterly 303-315
  • 鈥楾he Positive Duty of Prevention in the Common Law and the Convention鈥 (2020) 40(2) Legal Studies 209-229
  • 鈥楶ublic trust(s)鈥, chapter in Barradas de Freitas and Io Laconi (eds), Trust Matters (Hart 2022)
  • Co-authored with Shreya Atrey, 鈥楿nleashing the anticipatory reasonable adjustment duty: University of Bristol v Abrahart (EHRC intervening) [2024] EWHC 299 (KB)鈥 (2024) 24(1-2) International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 7-18
  • 鈥榁icarious liability narrows for intentional torts in English law: Trustees of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah鈥檚 Witnesses v BXB鈥 (2024) 15(3) Journal of European Tort Law 358-372
  • 'Committee of Inquiry (entry 228)' in the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (OUP 2026, edited by

    Rainer Grote, Frauke Lachenmann, R眉diger Wolfrum, and Adriani Dori)

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