PROFILE
Dr Sagi Peari
Started at UWA: 2018
Researcher and teacher dedicated to social justice and equality
Dr. Sagi Peari researches and teaches within private law, commercial law, international law, and their intersections. He is an author of two research monographs published by Oxford University Press: The Foundation of Choice-of-Law: Choice & Equality (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018) and International Negotiable Instruments (with Professor Benjamin Geva) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). He has also published in leading US, Canadian and Australian journals. Sagi is the only Australian academic who has authored two research monographs in law with Oxford University Press. Presently, with Professor Warren Swain of The University of Auckland, Sagi leads a global interdisciplinary initiative to tackle the current incoherency of private law.
In essence, Sagi’s scholarship lays out a global theory of just public institutions and the legal effects of cross-border interactions, which extends its conceptual argument to concrete legal categories: contracts, torts, restitution, negotiable instruments, corporations and taxation. His work shows how the traditional legal doctrines, principles and concepts can be accommodated and qualified within the advancing reality of the digital age and online communications.
Sagi holds an SJD degree from The University of Toronto where he was the recipient of the prestigious Joseph-Armand Bombardier and Connaught Doctoral Fellowships. He was also a recipient of the Hauser Global Fellowship at New York University Law School, and of the Connection Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. One of Sagi’s papers received the best paper prize award from the American Society of International Law. Another paper received the best paper prize award from the Corporate Law Teachers Association of Australia, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region.
Sagi is also a passionate teacher whose classes are filled with joy, positive spirit, friendly attitude and comprehensive treatment of the legal doctrine. He is a recipient of the 2019 & 2020 UWA Student Guild Choice Awards and the 2021 Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.
Qualifications
- Postdoc, New York University School of Law, USA (Hauser Global Scholar Fellowship)
- SJD (Doctor of Juridical Science), University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Canada
- LLM (Master of Laws), University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Canada
My research tackles the most pressing issues of social reality and the challenges that the era of internet and digital age posits for legal doctrine.Dr Sagi Peari
News
The Foundation of Choice of Law
Focuses on the subject of choice of law as a whole and provides an analysis of its various rules, principles, doctrines and concepts
Read moreInternational Negotiable Instruments
Provides a comprehensive overview of the nature of negotiable instruments law
Read moreWhich law applies to negotiable instruments?
The law of negotiable instruments is known for its sophistication and internal complexity. For centuries it has provided an effective legal solution for the pertinent needs of domestic and international commerce, facilitating predictability, protection of parties’ justified expectations, and the elimination of the risk involved in the physical carriage of money.
Read moreBest Paper Prize at the Corporate Law Teachers Association
Congratulations to Doctor Sagi Peari who was awarded the Best Paper Prize at the Corporate Law Teachers Association (CLTA) conference in Auckland.
Read moreRethinking Unjust Enrichment
This project is about the incoherency of private law which should be attributed to the advances of the so-called ‘unjust enrichment’ movement across the world.
Read moreExploring adjudicate litigation with a foreign element
Given the multitude of “foreign elements” in the factual bases of these cases, which state’s law should the domestic court apply to adjudicate the litigation?
Read moreSupervisor opportunities
