Charles Christopher James Mitchell KC (

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) (born 14 May 1965) is a British

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acknowledged as one of the leading

common-law In law, common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions."The common law is not a brooding omnipresen ...

experts on the

English law English law is the common law legal system of England and Wales, comprising mainly criminal law and civil law, each branch having its own courts and procedures. Principal elements of English law Although the common law has, historically, be ...

restitution The law of restitution is the law of gains-based recovery, in which a court orders the defendant to ''give up'' their gains to the claimant. It should be contrasted with the law of compensation, the law of loss-based recovery, in which a court o ...

unjust enrichment In laws of equity, unjust enrichment occurs when one person is enriched at the expense of another in circumstances that the law sees as unjust. Where an individual is unjustly enriched, the law imposes an obligation upon the recipient to make res ...

and the

law of trusts A trust is a legal relationship in which the holder of a right gives it to another person or entity who must keep and use it solely for another's benefit. In the Anglo-American common law, the party who entrusts the right is known as the "settl ...

. 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

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Career

Mitchell completed his PhD at

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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 at the University of Oxford from 1989 until his death. He also became a Fellow of the British Academy in 1989, and an honorary Queen's counsel in ...

. 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 pro ...

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: *Gwendolen Charlotte Julia Mitchell (born 18 April 1994) *Albert James Edward Mitchell (born 3 October 1996), undergraduate student of

Liberal Arts Liberal arts education (from Latin "free" and "art or principled practice") is the traditional academic course in Western higher education. ''Liberal arts'' takes the term ''art'' in the sense of a learned skill rather than specifically the ...

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...

*Reginald Alexander Philip Mitchell (born 3 September 1998), undergraduate student of

Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNC or, informally, ASNaC) is one of the constituent departments of the University of Cambridge, and focuses on the history, material culture, languages and literatures of the various peoples who i ...

Trinity College, Cambridge Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by Henry VIII, King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at either Cambridge ...

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 Van ...

'' (Hart, 2008), Ch.13, '' Johnson v Agnew'' (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 Law Department of the London School of Economics. ...

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

References

External links

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