Mitchell Cleaver

I recently submitted a dissertation towards the degree of DPhil in Law entitled The Equitable Lien: Credit, Security, and Priority in English Law and Economy, 1673-1925. It is an historical study of the origin and development of equitable property rights, focusing on their relationship to the adjudication of complex problems of credit, security, and priority in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The dissertation was supervised by Professor Joshua Getzler and Professor Ben McFarlane, and is currently under examination by Professor Michael Lobban and Professor Charles Mitchell.

During my time at Oxford I was a College Lecturer at Corpus Christi College where I taught Trusts and Land Law on the undergraduate course, and Advanced Property and Trusts on the BCL.

I have now returned to legal practice as a solicitor at Allens Linklaters in Australia, where I am based in the tax team and principally advise on income tax and stamp duty issues in transactional as well as contentious matters. I also have a broader commercial practice, with a particular focus on equity and trusts.

Since 2024 I have also been an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of New South Wales, having previously been a Sessional Lecturer in Equity at the University of Sydney (2016–2019), a Teaching Fellow in Equity & Trusts at the University of New South Wales (2019–2020), and a Tipstaff (researcher) to the Hon. Justice Julie Ward, the Chief Judge in Equity and a Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (2017). I have published on equity and property law issues in Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly and the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice.