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	text:  larger  smaller		William Swadling Reader in Property Law  William Swadling , MA (Oxon), LLM (Lond) is the Senior Law Fellow at Brasenose College and a Reader in the Law of Property in the Faculty. He chairs the faculty's teaching groups in Restitution and Personal Property. Before coming to Oxford, he held posts at a number of other English universities, including University College London and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the editor of a number of books, including The Quistclose Trust: Critical Essays. He is particularly interested in the intersection between trusts and restitution, and a number of his articles on this topic have been cited in the English courts, most notably in Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington LBC [1996] AC 669. He is a contributor to Halsbury's Laws of England (4th ed, reissue), and wrote the section entitled 'Property' in Burrows (ed), English Private Law (2nd ed, 2007). He is a founding editor of the Restitution Law Review and has held visiting professorships at the University of Hamburg, Seoul National University, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas). He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Leuven and an academic associate at 3-4 South Square, Gray's Inn, London. In 2006, he was elected to membership of the American Law Institute. Subject groups : Land Law : Personal Property : Restitution : Trusts All | Recent | Selected Publications    sorted by selection | sort by year W J Swadling, 'Rescission, Property, and the Common Law' (2005) 121(Jan) Law Quarterly Review 123-153 W J Swadling, Property (Oxford University Press 2007) W J Swadling, 'Orthodoxy' in Swadling (ed), The Quistclose Trust: Critical Essays (Hart Publishing 2004) W J Swadling, 'Unjust Delivery' in A S Burrows & Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (eds), Mapping the Law: Essays in Memory of Peter Birks (OUP 2006) W J Swadling, 'Explaining Resulting Trusts' (2007) 124 Law Quarterly Review 72-102 Correspondence address: Brasenose College, Oxford OX1 4AJ Link to personal web site Link to Brasenose College Link to University email/phone directory in new window