
Edwin Simpson
CUF Lecturer
Edwin Simpson (BCL 1989, MA 1990) is an Official Student (or Tutor) in Law at Christ Church, and the Barclays Bank Lecturer in Taxation in the University. He is a qualified barrister and member of Lincoln's Inn.
His interests focus around theories of the public sphere and of property, and naturally meet in topics such as trusts law, highway law, and the law of taxation.
He gives tutorials in Trusts Law, Administrative Law and Jurisprudence; and teaches on both of the BCL/MJur tax courses, the Law of Personal Taxation, and Corporate and Business Taxation.
Subject groups : Philosophy of Law : Taxation : Trusts
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E J F Simpson, 'Conflicts' in Peter Birks and Arianna Pretto (eds), Breach of Trust (Hart Publishing 2002)
E J F Simpson and B McFarlane, 'Tackling Avoidance' in J Getzler (ed), Rationalizing Property, Equity and Trusts - Essays in Honour of Edward Burn (OUP 2003)
Other notes:The article considers both tax and property aspects of avoidance. This author contributed the tax elements, some 50% of the whole.
ISBN: 0 406 96440 8
E J F Simpson, 'Making Sense of the Ramsay Principle: a Novel Role for Public Law?' in Jean-Bernard Auby and M. R. Freedland (eds), The Public Law/Private Law Divide: une entente assez cordiale (Hart Publishing 2006)
E J F Simpson, 'The Ramsay Principle: a Curious Incident of Judicial Reticence?' (2004) [2004] 4 British Tax Review 358-374
Abstract: An examination of the constitutional constraints upon the judiciary in the development of tax law; and an argument (i) that they have been misunderstood, and (ii) that, if properly understood, a legislated GAAR (general anti-avoidance rule) would be unnecesary.
ISBN: 0007-1870
E J F Simpson and I Peacock, 'Exempt Information' in Macdonald and Jones (eds), The Law of Freedom of Information (OUP 2003)
Other notes:50:50 contribution by the two co-authors.
ISBN: 0199249946
Correspondence address: Christ Church, Oxford OX1 1DP
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