Charles Mitchell (professor)

Charles Mitchell MA (Oxon) is a professor of law at University College London. He is one of the leading common law experts on unjust enrichment and the law of trusts, and author of two leading textbooks and one practitioner's book.

Mitchell completed his Ph.D. at University College London and was supervised by Peter Birks. Up until 2008 he worked at King's College London, before spending a year as Professor of property law at Jesus College, Oxford University.

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

• Goff and Jones on the Law of Unjust Enrichment (8th edn Sweet & Maxwell 2011) (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 (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)

• ‘Recovery of Compound Interest as Restitution or Damages’ (2008) 71 Modern Law Review 290
• ‘Liability Chains’ in Simone Degeling and James Edelman (eds) Restitution in Commercial Law (Thomson, 2008)