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Charles Mitchell, FBA, KC (Hon), Professor of Laws, University College London, is a giant of legal scholarship. He is the author of leading works in trusts, restitution, and commercial law, and there are very few students, jurists or practitioners in private law in this country whose legal imagination have not been shaped by his expository and analytical writings and his genial and committed teaching. He has greatly influenced the course of appellate decisions, notably in the areas of liability and remedy in equity.
Prof Mitchell has also sustained an outstanding career as a legal historian, building on his first studies in modern history at Oxford before he turned to law. He is currently the lead author of the standard textbook Law and Society in England 1750–1950. He has edited and contributed chapters to many of the Landmark Cases volumes for Hart, and has written a series of sparkling studies of key legal doctrines and episodes of the 19th and early 20th centuries, with a tilt towards charitable and social law. His Youard Lecture this year touches on these latter themes.
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