William Swadling – England

MA (Oxon), LLM (Lond)

William Swadling is Fellow and Tutor in Law at Brasenose College and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Oxford, where he teaches Trusts, Land Law, Personal Property, and Restitution. He has published a number of articles and chapters on these topics, including “A New Role for Resulting Trusts” (1996) 16 Legal Studies 133, which received the approval of the House of Lords in Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington LBC [1996] AC 669, and ‘The Proprietary Effect of a Lease of Goods’ (in Palmer & McKendrick (eds), Interests in Goods (2^nd ed, 1998). He is a contributor to Halsbury's Laws of England (4^th ed, reissue), co-editor of Trust Law International and a founding editor of The Restitution Law Review. He has held visiting appointments at the National University of Singapore, Seoul National University, and the University of Florida. He is chair of the Trusts Teaching Group in Oxford and a member of the Trust Law Committee, a group of leading academics and practitioners dedicated to researching weaknesses of Trust Law in England and Wales and ways of improving it, chaired by Sir John Vinelott.

William Swadling is available to advise on all aspects of Trusts, Property, and Restitution.