Charles Mitchell

Charles Mitchell has been a Professor of Law at University College London since 2010, having previously held posts at King’s College London and Oxford. Since 2010 he has also been a Visiting Professor of Law at Oxford. His main research interests are the law of unjust enrichment, the law of trusts, voluntary sector law and policy, and modern legal history.

His recent publications include Subrogation: Law and Practice (OUP, 2007) (with Stephen Watterson); Hayton & Mitchell’s Commentary and Cases on the Law of Trusts and Equitable Remedies 13th edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010); Underhill and Hayton’s Law Relating to Trusts and Trustees 18th edn (LexisNexis Butterworths, 2010) (with David Hayton and Paul Matthews); and Goff and Jones: The Law of Unjust Enrichment 8th edn (Sweet & Maxwell, 2011) (with Paul Mitchell and Stephen Watterson). He has also edited several collections of essays, including Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Unjust Enrichment (OUP, 2009) (with Robert Chambers and James Penner); Constructive and Resulting Trusts (Hart, 2010); and four volumes in the Landmark Cases series published by Hart, on Restitution (2006), Contract (2008), Tort (2010), and Equity (2012) (all with Paul Mitchell).

He is currently organizing a symposium on ‘The Restatement Third, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment: A Critical and Comparative Analysis’ (with William Swadling). He is also writing a social and cultural history of charity law in the Victorian period (with Charlotte Mitchell), a book on voluntary sector law and policy (with Jonathan Garton), and a new edition of William Cornish and Geoffrey Clark’s Law and Society in England, 1750-1950 (with Steve Banks and Charlotte Smith).