Achas Burin

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 hereLink opens in a new window, and her Google Scholar profile hereLink opens in a new window.

Publications

• ‘A “right not to be offended” under Article 10(2)? – Concerns in the construction of the “rights of others”’ [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?’ (2014) 77(6) Modern Law Review 994-1008
• ‘Beyond pragmatism: defending the “bright line” of birth’ (2014) 22(4) Medical Law Review 494-525
• ‘Coventry v Lawrence: the unbearable burden of one’s wrongdoing’ (2015) 34(4) Civil Justice Quarterly 303-315
• ‘The Positive Duty of Prevention in the Common Law and the Convention’ (2020) 40(2) Legal Studies 209-229
• ‘Public trust(s)’, chapter in Barradas de Freitas and Io Laconi (eds), Trust Matters (Hart 2022)
• Co-authored with Shreya Atrey, ‘Unleashing the anticipatory reasonable adjustment duty: University of Bristol v Abrahart (EHRC intervening) [2024] EWHC 299 (KB)’ (2024) 24(1-2) International Journal of Discrimination and the Law 7-18
• ‘Vicarious liability narrows for intentional torts in English law: Trustees of the Barry Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses v BXB’ (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, Rüdiger Wolfrum, and Adriani Dori)