Profile
Robert Chambers is Professor of Property Law at UCL since September 2008. He was a Barrister and Solicitor in Alberta before obtaining a DPhil at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Professor Peter Birks. Since then, he has been Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Professor at the University of Alberta, and Professor of Law at King's College London. He has also had visiting lectureships at Niigata University in Japan and the University of Auckland. He is Deputy Chief Examiner in the Law of Trusts for the University of London International LLB Programme and a member of the editorial boards for Trusts Law International and the Journal of Equity.
Research
Professor Chambers researches and writes about property, restitution, trusts, and unjust enrichment.
Publications Books
Resulting Trusts (Oxford 1997)
An Introduction to Property Law in Australia (2nd edn Sydney 2008)
Edited Books
The Law of Restitution in Canada: Cases, Notes, and Materials (Toronto 2004) (with L Smith, M McInnes, J Neyers, and S Pitel)
Oosterhoff on Trusts: Text, Commentary and Materials (7th edn Toronto 2009) (with A Oosterhoff, M McInnes, and L Smith)
The Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Unjust Enrichment (Oxford 2009) (with C Mitchell and J Penner)
Chapters in books
Conditional Gifts in N Palmer and E McKendrick (eds) Interests in Goods (2nd edn London 1998) 429-460
Liability in P Birks and A Pretto (eds) Breach of Trust (Oxford 2002) 1-40
Integrating Property and Obligations in A Robertson (ed) The Law of Obligations: Connections and Boundaries (London 2004) 127-144
Restrictions on the Use of Money in W Swadling (ed) The Quistclose Trust: Critical Essays (Oxford 2004) 77-120
Tracing and Unjust Enrichment in J Neyers, M McInnes, and S Pitel (eds) Understanding Unjust Enrichment (Oxford 2004) 263-309
The Importance of Specific Performance in S Degeling and J Edelman (eds) Equity in Commercial Law (Sydney 2005) 431-462
Resulting Trusts in A Burrows and Lord Rodger (eds) Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (Oxford 2006) 247-264
Ignorance in S Degeling and J Edelman (eds) Equity in Commercial Law (Sydney 2008) 253-274 (with J Penner)
Two Kinds of Enrichment in R Chambers, C Mitchell, and J Penner (eds) The Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Unjust Enrichment (Oxford 2009) 242-278
Is There a Presumption of Resulting Trust? in C Mitchell (ed), Constructive and Resulting Trusts (Oxford 2010) 267-287
Trust and Theft in E Bant and M Harding (eds),
Exploring Private Law (Cambridge 2010) 223-245
Articles
Constructive Trusts in Canada (1999) 37 Alberta Law Review 173-220, reprinted (2001) 15 Trust Law International 214-232, (2002) 16 Trust Law International 2-20
Resulting Trusts in Canada (2000) 38 Alberta Law Review 378-414, reprinted (2002) 16 Trust Law International 104-122, 138-150
Current Teaching Undergraduate
Property
Graduate
International and Comparative Commercial Restitution (with C Mitchell, J Penner, and R Stevens)
International and Commercial Trusts Law (with C Mitchell, J Penner, P Rawlings, and R Stevens)
PhD Supervision
Professor Chambers welcomes approaches from prospective doctoral students in the areas of property, restitution, trusts, and unjust enrichment.
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