Guenter Treitel

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Professor Sir Guenter Heinz Treitel, is a German-born English DCL, FBA, QC, who retired as Vinerian Professor of English Law in 1997, and has been awarded a knighthood for services to law. Professor Treitel has been a Fellow of All Souls College since 1979; he was previously a Fellow of Magdalen College from 1954 to 1979.

Treitel is the son of a leading Berlin lawyer and came to England on the kindertransport.

Treitel was once described by Lord Steyn as 'one of the most distinguished academic writers on the law of contract in the English speaking world', and has often been described as the leading authority on English contract law.

He is the author of Treitel on Contract, the seminal work on English contract law.

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