Irit is a Professor of Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London, where she also serves as the Course Convenor for the core module in Equity & Trusts. She specializes in theory of equity, trust law, and philosophy of private law, with her scholarly contributions focusing on the intersection of private law and morality. She is the author of Equity: Conscience Goes to Market (OUP, 2018) and has co-edited Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Equity (OUP, 2020) and Philosophical Foundations of Express Trust (OUP, 2023). She published papers in leading journals such as the Modern Law Review, Cambridge Law Journal, Law Quarterly Review, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, American Journal of Jurisprudence, and Law Quarterly Review.

Before joining King’s College London, Professor Samet was a college lecturer at the University of Oxford and a lecturer the University of Essex. She has held visiting positions at several universities including Columbia University (NY), EUI (Florence), the University of Turin, UNSW (Sydney), and the University of Queensland (Brisbane). Her work has been widely cited in scholarly as well as judicial contexts. Irit earned her D.Phil from Oxford University following an LLB degree, and a master in Philosophy from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She is a member of the editorial board of Jurisprudence and the Oxford Theory of Private Law book series.

Research interests

Theory of private law and the interface between moral theory and the law of Equity.

Teaching

Equity and trusts, Property, Theory of property