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Professor Charlie Webb

Professor Charlie Webb

Professor of Law

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law School

Telephone
020-7955-7260
Room No
Cheng Kin Ku Building 6.29
Languages
English
Key Expertise
Law

About me

Professor Charlie Webb has worked in the law school since 2006. He previously taught at University College, Oxford, and studied at Oxford and UCL before coming to the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ for his PhD. His research is in private law theory, principally in the areas of contract, trusts and restitution.

Administrative support: Law.Reception@lse.ac.uk

Research interests

Contract law, restitution, trusts and private law theory.

Teaching

Books

Trusts Law 5th ed. (Palgrave Macmillan 2017)  (with Tim Akkouh)

Trusts Law is a clear and concise text aimed at first time students of equity and trusts, covering all topics typically included in courses by providing an account both of the case law and also the main academic debates on which exam questions often focus. The authors have provided useful insights and new perspectives on a complex subject.



 

Reason and Restitution: A Theory of Unjust Enrichment  (Oxford University Press: 2016)

In law, gains, like losses, don't always lie where they fall. The circumstances in which the law requires defendants to give up their gains are well documented in the work of unjust enrichment lawyers. The same cannot be said, however, of the reasons for ordering restitution of such gains.
    It is often suggested that unjust enrichment's existence can be demonstrated without inquiry into these reasons, into the principles of justice it represents and invokes. Yet while we can indeed show that there exists a body of claims dealing with the recovery of mistaken payments and the like without going on to inquire into their rationale, this isn't true of unjust enrichment's existence as a distinct ground of such claims. If unjust enrichment exists as a body of like cases and claims, truly independent of contract and tort, it does so by virtue of the distinct reasons it identifies and to which these claims respond.
   Reason and Restitution examines the reasons which support and shape claims in unjust enrichment and how these reasons bear on the law's resolution of these claims. The identity of these reasons matters. For one thing, unjust enrichment's status as a distinct ground of liability depends on the distinctiveness of these reasons. But, more importantly, it matters to those charged with the practical tasks of deciding cases and making laws, for it is these reasons alone which can direct how judges and legislators ought to respond to these claims.

Articles

  • ‘Duties and Damages’ in P Miller and J Oberdiek (eds), (Oxford University Press 2020)
  • ‘Illegality’ in W Day and S Worthington (eds), (Hart Publishing 2020)
  • ‘Discretionary Justice’ in D Klimchuk, I Samet and H Smith, (Oxford University Press 2020)
  • ‘The Philosophy of Fiduciary Law’ in E Criddle, P Miller and R Sitkoff (eds), (Oxford University Press 2019)
  •  O.J.L.S. (2018)  38( 2) pp.246-269
  • 'Performance damages' in G Virgo and S Worthington (eds), (Cambridge University Press, 2017) 
  • Current Legal Problems (2016) 69 (1) pp.353-376
  • 'Contract as fact and as reason' in G Klass, G Letsas and P Saprai (eds), (Oxford University Press, 2014)
  • 'Reasons for restitution' in S Elliott, B Häcker and C Mitchell (eds), (Hart Publishing, 2013)
  • Jurisprudence Volume 2, Number 1, June 2011 , pp. 205-216 (45)
  • 'Intention, mistakes and resulting trusts' in C Mitchell, (Hart Publishing, 2010).
  • 'Treating like cases alike: principle and classification in private law' in A Robertson and HW Tang (eds), (Hart Publishing, 2009)
  • (2009) 29 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 2009, 29(2), 215-243
  • 'Property, unjust enrichment and defective transfers' in R. Chambers, C. Mitchell and J. Penner (eds), (Oxford University Press, 2009)
  • 'Justifying Damages' in J. Neyers, R. Bronaugh and S. Pitel (eds), (Hart Publishing, 2009)
  • (2006) 26 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 41-71