Rachel joined the LSE Law School as Assistant Professor in Sep 2022. She is a private lawyer whose main research expertise and interests span three broad areas: the law of unjust enrichment and restitution, trusts and commercial equity, and agency law. She also has a special interest in corporate attribution in private law, the subject-matter of her doctorate and first monograph, Corporate Attribution in Private Law (Hart Publishing 2022). Her work has been cited with approval by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and the Singapore Court of Appeal.

Drawing on a wide range of material from across the disparate areas of company law, agency law, and the laws of contract, tort, unjust enrichment, and equitable obligations, this book's central argument is that attribution turns on the allocation and delegation of the company's own powers to act. This approach allows for a much greater and clearer understanding of attribution. A further benefit is that it shows attribution to be much more united and coherent than it is commonly thought to be. Looking at corporate attribution across the broad expanse of the common law, this book will be of interest to lawyers across the common law world, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, and Singapore.Donatio mortis causa of registered land in the Singapore High Court’ [2011] Trust Law International 145-149 Ministerial Acts’ in Paul Davies and Cheng-Han Tan (ed), Intermediaries in Commercial Law (Hart Publishing, 2022)

Rescuing Uncertain Leases in English Law: A Study in Compatibility for Transplantation: Berrisford v Mexfield Housing Co-Operative Ltd’ [2012] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 481-490 (with K Low) Much of Rachel’s research is united by a central question: why, how, and when do people act for or on behalf of another in private law? In that vein, she is currently working on projects concerning the equitable doctrine of ‘fraud on a power’, powers of attorney, and termination of authority. The Supreme Court dismissed the appellants’ appeal and upheld the Court of Appeal’s decision, holding that the directors’ knowledge could not be attributed to the company – the issue of attribution as between a company and its directors/employees is not the same as between the company and a third party. Lord Neuberger summarised the position as follows: Looking at key questions of how companies are held accountable under private law, this book presents a succinct and accessible framework for analysing and answering corporate attribution problems in private law.Review of Andreas Televantos, Capitalism Before Corporations: The Morality of Business Associations and the Roots of Commercial Equity and Law (OUP 2020) (2022) 81 CLJ 202 Two Kinds of Agency’ (2019) 93 Supreme Court Law Review 385-411 (reprinted as ‘Two Kinds of Agency’ in Jason Neyers, Andrew Botterell, Zoe Sinel (eds), Gerald Fridman and the Law of Obligations: Past, Present and Future (LexisNexis Canada, 2019)) Unjust Enrichment and Restitution in Singapore: Where Now and Where Next?’ [2013] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 331-60 (with T Liau)

Four Misconceptions about Charity Law in Singapore” [2012] Singapore Journal of Legal Studies 37-54 Meridian, Allocated Powers and Systems Intentionality Compared’ in Elise Bant (ed), The Culpable Corporate Mind (Hart Publishing 2023), Chapter 6 A Principal’s Mental Incapacity and ‘Termination’ of the Agent’s Authority’ (2024) LQR (forthcoming)A Pyrrhic Victory for Unjust Enrichment in Singapore?’(2023) 86 Modern Law Review 518-535 (with T Liau) The Evolution of Charity Law in Singapore - From Pre-Independence to the 21st Century” [2012] Trust Law International 83-95 Meridian, Allocated Powers, and Systems Intentionality Compared’ in Elise Bant (ed), Culpable Corporate Minds (Hart Publishing, forthcoming Sept 2023)