Charles Christopher James Mitchell KC (

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) (born 14 May 1965) is a British

legal scholar Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the a ...

acknowledged as one of the leading

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experts on the

English law English law is the common law list of national legal systems, legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly English criminal law, criminal law and Civil law (common law), civil law, each branch having its own Courts of England and Wales, ...

restitution Restitution and unjust enrichment is the field of law relating to gains-based recovery. In contrast with damages (the law of compensation), restitution is a claim or remedy requiring a defendant to give up benefits wrongfully obtained. Liability ...

unjust enrichment Restitution and unjust enrichment is the field of law relating to gains-based recovery. In contrast with damages (the law of compensation), restitution is a claim or remedy requiring a defendant to give up benefits wrongfully obtained. Liability ...

and the

law of trusts A trust is a legal relationship in which the owner of property, or any transferable right, gives it to another to manage and use solely for the benefit of a designated person. In the English common law, the party who entrusts the property is k ...

. He is the author of two leading textbooks and one practitioner's book. He is currently Professor of Law at

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and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the

Institute of Advanced Legal Studies The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) is a member institute of the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Founded in 1947, it is a national academic centre of excellence, serving the legal community and universities across the ...

Career

Mitchell completed his

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and was supervised by

Peter Birks Peter Brian Herrenden Birks (3 October 1941 – 6 July 2004) was the Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford), Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford from 1989 until his death. He also became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1 ...

. Until 2008 he worked at

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, before spending a year as Professor of

Property Law Property law is the area of law that governs the various forms of ownership in real property (land) and personal property. Property refers to legally protected claims to resources, such as land and personal property, including intellectual prope ...

at Jesus College,

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. Mitchell was also previously general editor of the ''King's Law Journal''.

Personal life

In April 1992, Mitchell married

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Dr Charlotte Lennox-Boyd, daughter of Simon Lennox-Boyd, 2nd Viscount Boyd of Merton and the former Alice Clive. Dr Charlotte Mitchell is Honorary Senior Lecturer at UCL's Department of English. They have three children.

Honours

In July 2017, Mitchell was elected a

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(FBA), the United Kingdom's

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for the humanities and social sciences.

Publications

;Books *'' Goff and Jones on the Law of Unjust Enrichment'' (9th edn Sweet & Maxwell 2016) (editor with Stephen Watterson and Paul Mitchell) *''Hayton and Mitchell's Commentary and Cases on the Law of Trusts and Equitable Remedies'' (13th edn Sweet & Maxwell 2010) *''

Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract ''Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract'' (2008) is a book by Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell, which outlines the key cases in English contract law. Content The cases discussed are, *'' Coggs v Barnard'' (1703) on bailment *'' Pillans v Va ...

'' (Hart, 2008), Ch.13, ''

Johnson v Agnew ''Johnson v Agnew'' 980AC 367 is a landmark English contract law case on the date for assessing damages. Lord Wilberforce decided that the date appropriate is the date of breach, ''or'' when a contracting party could reasonably be aware of a brea ...

'' (with Paul Mitchell) *''Landmark Cases in the Law of Restitution'' (Hart, 2006), essays on legal history. (with Paul Mitchell) *''Subrogation: Law and Practice'' (OUP, 2007) Ed. (with Stephen Watterson) *''Underhill and Hayton's Law Relating to Trusts and Trustees'' (Butterworths, 2006) 17th edn (winner of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners’ Book of the Year Award for 2007 (with David Hayton and Paul Matthews) *''The Law of Contribution and Reimbursement'' (OUP, 2003) ;Articles * ‘Recovery of Compound Interest as Restitution or Damages’ (2008) 71

Modern Law Review The ''Modern Law Review'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of Modern Law Review Ltd. and which has traditionally maintained close academic ties with the faculty of law at the London School of Economic ...

290 * ‘Liability Chains’ in Simone Degeling and James Edelman (eds) Restitution in Commercial Law (Thomson, 2008)

References

External links

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at the UCL Faculty of Laws. {{DEFAULTSORT:Mitchell, Charles Living people Academics of King's College London English legal scholars Fellows of the British Academy 1965 births Alumni of the UCL Faculty of Laws