From: Enrichment - Restitution & Unjust Enrichment Legal Issues <ENRICHMENT@LISTS.MCGILL.CA> on behalf of Lionel Smith <lionel.smith@MCGILL.CA>

Sent: Sunday 1 March 2026 15:56

To: ENRICHMENT@LISTS.MCGILL.CA

Subject: [RDG] alert: Fake Restitution Law Review web site

 

A fake web site has recently appeared purporting to be the site of the Restitution Law Review, which is well-known to many list members but which stopped publishing in 2018. It is at https://restitutionlawreview.co.uk/index.php/rlr

 

The 'archives' after 2018 seem to contain a mix of real things written by real people, fakely presenting them as having been published in this journal years later than they really were published, and (I think) in more recent 'volumes', AI-generated articles (with text).

 

Those listed as members of the Editorial Board include Peter Birks (d. 2004), and:

 

Alison Jones, King's College, London, England

Andrew Kull, Boston University, United States

Daniel Friedmann, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Daniel Visser, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Eoin O'Dell, Trinity College Dublin, England

Gerard McMeel, University of Bristol, England & Wales

James Edelman, University of Oxford, England

Peter Butler, University of Queensland, Australia

Peter Watts, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Robert Chambers, University of Alberta, Canada

William Stewart, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Yeo Tiong Min, Singapore Management University, Singapore

 

RDG members should be aware that none of this has any basis in reality (except perhaps the charge of GBP600 that will be collected if a manuscript is 'accepted', according to the Author Guidelines).

 

Lionel

 

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Lionel Smith

Professor of Comparative Law, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford

Brasenose College, Oxford OX1 4AJ

+44 1865 615 904

lionel.smith@law.ox.ac.uk

https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/lionel-smith

SSRN Author page: 

http://ssrn.com/author=118243

ORCID: 0000-0001-7120-3735

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