Dr Tariq Baloch is an Associate within the International Arbitration Group of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Dubai; he was formerly a Lecturer in Laws at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow. He is the author of Unjust Enrichment and Contract (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2009). Abstract

Monica Bhandari is Senior Lecturer in Law at King’s College London. Her teaching and research are focused upon tax law and restitution, especially their inter-relationship on the recovery of overpaid tax by taxpayers from the tax authorities. She has written widely on this issue; in particular she is the author of Overpaid Tax (Hart Publishing, Oxford, forthcoming). Abstract

Prof Elise Bant is Associate Professor in the School of Law, University of Melbourne and Honorary Fellow at the School of Law, University of Western Australia. Her research interests lie in equity, property, restitution and unjust enrichment. She is a co-recipient of an ARC Discovery Grant researching the Principles of Proprietary Remedies, co-author of Unjust Enrichment in Australia (OUP Australia & New Zealand, 2006) and author of The Change of Position Defence (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2009). Abstract

Prof Catherine Barnard is Professor of European Union Law and Co-Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies, in the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. Her research interests lie in EU labour and discrimination law. She is the author of The Substantive Law of the EU. The Four Freedoms (3rd ed, Oxford University Press, 2010) and editor of The Fundamentals of EU Law Revisited. Assessing the Impact of the Constitutional Debate (Oxford University Press, 2007). Abstract

Prof Robert Chambers is Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Law, University College London. He researches property, restitution, trusts, and unjust enrichment. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Equity and Trusts Law International, and a regional editor for the Restitution Law Review. He is the author of Resulting Trusts (Oxford University Press, 1997) and co-author of The Law of Restitution in Canada: Cases, Notes, and Materials (Toronto, 2004). Abstract

Niamh Cleary read law at Trinity College Dublin, where she was a Scholar, and she holds a Masters in Laws from the University of Cambridge. She is a PhD candidate in Trinity College Dublin, where her doctoral thesis is entitled “Restitution from Public Authorities in Ireland”. Abstract

Dr Niamh Connolly is a Lecturer in Law and French, and Socrates and Exchange Programme Co-ordinator, in the School of Law at Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests lie in corporate law and the private law of law obligations, especially restitution and unjust enrichment, as well as in French law and comparative law. She has recently successfully completed her PhD on “Beyond Corporate Incapacity”, and she is the Convenor of the annual Law Student Colloquium. Abstract

Prof Simone Degeling is Associate Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Private Law Research and Policy Group at University of New South Wales and Associate Editor of the Journal of Equity. Her research interests lie in obligations and commercial law; she is the author of Restitutionary Rights to Share in Damages (Cambridge University Press, 2003). Abstract

Prof James Edelman is Professor of the Law of Obligations at Oxford University, Tutorial Fellow in Law, Keble College Oxford, and barrister at One Essex Court. His research interests are in unjust enrichment, restitution, and commercial law. He is the author of Gain-Based Damages (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2002) and co-author of Unjust Enrichment in Australia (OUP Australia & New Zealand, 2006) and of Cases and Materials on the Law of Restitution (2nd ed, Oxford University Press, 2006). Abstract

Prof Nelson Enonchong is Barber Professor of Law in the University of Birmingham, and barrister at No5 Chambers, Birmingham. His principal research interests lie in the fields of contract, commercial and restitution Law. He is an editor of the Journal of African Law and the African Journal of International and Comparative Law. He is the author of Illegal Transactions (Lloyd’s of London Press, 1998) and Duress, Undue Influence and Unconscionable Dealing (Sweet & Maxwell, 2005). Abstract

Laura Farrell read law at Jesus College, Oxford, where she was a scholar and Welson prize-winner, and holds a Masters in Laws from Trinity College Dublin. She has been called to the Bars of England and Wales and of Ireland, and she presently has a traditional chancery practice in Dublin. Her research interests lie in equity, property and unjust enrichment. Abstract

Julian Ghosh QC is a member of Pump Court Tax Chambers. He is a Judge of the First-Tier and Deputy Judge of the Upper-Tier Tax Tribunals, Visiting Professor at the International Tax Centre, University of Leiden, sometime Lector at Trinity College Cambridge and Visiting Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Abstract

Dr Birke Häcker is a lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and Quondam Fellow of All Souls’ College Oxford. She is a graduate of the Universities of Oxford, Tübingen and Bonn, and her research interests lie in core areas of private law, with a particular focus on the historical and comparative perspective, and she has recently completed her Oxford doctoral thesis on “Consequences of Impaired Consent Transfers: A Structural Comparison of English and German Law”. Abstract

Prof Steve Hedley is Dean of the Faculty of Law and Head of the Department of Law at University College Cork (website | blog). His research interests cover private law generally, especially contract, restitution and theory of obligations. He is the author of many books, including A Critical Introduction to Restitution (Oxford University Press, 2001) and Restitution. Its Division and Ordering (Sweet & Maxwell, 2001), and co-editor of The Law of Restitution (Butterworths Common Law, 2002). He runs a website on restitutionary issues. Abstract

James Lee is a Lecturer in Law in the University of Birmingham. His main research interests lie in the law of obligations (especially Restitution and Torts) and jurisprudence (especially judicial reasoning in superior appellate courts). In 2007, he was awarded the inaugural Best Paper Prize at the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference. He is the editor of From House of Lords to Supreme Court: Judges, Jurists and the Process of Judging (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2010). Abstract

Prof Charles Mitchell is a Professor of Law at Oxford University, and Fellow and Tutor in Law at Jesus College Oxford. His main research interests are the law of obligations, particularly the law of unjust enrichment, and the law of trusts. He is the co-author of Subrogation: Law and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2007) and Hayton & Mitchell’s Commentary and Cases on the Law of Trusts and Equitable Remedies (13th ed, Sweet & Maxwell, 2010). Abstract

Dr Eoin O’Dell is a Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Law in Trinity College Dublin. He blogs at Cearta – the Irish for Rights. He researches and writes on the private law of obligations and on media law. He recently co-edited Law and Practice. Essays on Reform (Clarus Press, Dublin, 2009). Abstract

Dr Anne Sanders is an assistant lecturer at the University of Cologne and Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Bundesverfassungsgericht (German Federal Constitutional Court, Karlsruhe). She has worked for the European Commission and the Law Commission for England and Wales. Her research interests are primarily in family law (especially with respect to its links to the law of contract and property), comparative law, charities and unjust enrichment. Abstract

Maximilian Schlote is a graduate of Cambridge (BA) and Oxford (BCL), and is researcher at the Centre for Business Taxation in the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. His research focuses upon European tax law and, in particular, the link between the tax case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and domestic restitution case law. Abstract

Dr Duncan Sheehan is Senior Lecturer in Law, University of East Anglia, where he specialises in chancery law subjects, especially contract, property, restitution, and trusts. His Oxford doctoral thesis, entitled “Mistakes of Law”, focused on the historical development of the mistake of law bar, its eventual abolition by the House of Lords in Kleinwort Benson Ltd v Lincoln City Council [1998] UKHL 38, [1999] 2 AC 349 (29 October 1998), and the impact of that change on the future of the law of restitution; and he has since published widely on this topic. Abstract

William Swadling is Reader in the Law of Property in the Faculty of Law, Oxford University, and Senior Law Fellow at Brasenose College Oxford, and academic associate at 3-4 South Square. His research interests lie in property, restitution and trusts. He is a founding editor of the Restitution Law Review, editor of The Quistclose Trust. Critical Essays (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2004), and co-editor of The Search for Principle. Essays in Honour of Lord Goff of Chieveley (Oxford University Press, 2000). Abstract

Dr Charlie Webb is a Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics. His research interests lie in contract, restitution, unjust enrichment, trusts and private law theory; and he has recently successfully completed his PhD on “Property, Restitution and Unjust Enrichment” (supervised by Prof Sarah Worthington). He is the author of a number of leading articles on private law, and he is a co-author of Trusts Law (Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2008). Abstract

Dr Rebecca Williams is a CUF Lecturer in Law at Oxford University, and Fellow and Tutor in Law in Pembroke College Oxford. Her research interests include the interrelationship between public law and unjust enrichment, and her book Unjust Enrichment and Public Law. A Comparative Study of England, France and the EU (Hart Publishing, Oxford, 2010) examines Woolwich claims involving unjust enrichment and public bodies in France, England and the EU. Abstract