Mindy Chen-Wishart is an Emeritus professor of the law of contract and was the Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford.^[1] She was a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Merton College, Oxford.^[2] She has written numerous articles on contract law and the law of obligations. Her work has been adopted the Canadian Supreme Court and Court of Appeal of England and Wales.^{[citation needed]}

Born in Taiwan, she was brought up in New Zealand. She began her academic career at the University of Otago, where she completed a master's degree in 1987,^[3] then moving to Oxford, initially as a research fellow funded by the Rhodes Trust.^[4][5]

In 2021, she called for anti-racism training across Oxford University, relying on personal anecdotal material.^[6] She launched the #RaceMeToo Twitter campaign to draw attention to racism allegedly faced by affected academics.^[7]

• Unconscionable Bargains (Butterworths 1989) ISBN 978-0409788815
• Contract Law (OUP, 1st edn 2005, 6th edn 2018) ISBN 978-0198806356