Mitchell Cleaver

Mitchell is a college lecturer and doctoral student at Corpus Christi College, primarily researching in the areas of property, trusts, insolvency, and obligations. He was previously at Magdalen College, Oxford. 

His doctorate is entitled The Equitable Lien: Credit, Security, and Priority in English Law and Economy, 1673-1925. It is an historical study in the historical 'proprietisation' of equitable rights and its relationship with complex problems of credit, security, and priority, such as those arising in the administration of deceased, bankrupt, trust, and partnership estates in the early modern period. It is supervised by Professor Joshua Getzler and Professor Ben McFarlane.

Mitchell teaches Trusts and Land Law on the undergraduate course, and Advanced Property and Trusts on the BCL.

Prior to coming to Oxford, Mitchell was a solicitor at Allens Linklaters in Australia. He has experience in commercial litigation, tax, insolvency and restructuring, and funds management. 

Mitchell holds a Master of Law with first class honours from the University of Cambridge and degrees in law and history from the University of Sydney. He was previously 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). He has 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.