A collection of essays by leading academic commentators on the role of equity and trust in commercial law.
Paul S Davies is Professor of Commercial Law at UCL and a Barrister at Essex Court Chambers. He was previously a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and St Catherine's College, Oxford. Paul has also worked at the Law Commission. He is the author of Accessory Liability (Hart Publishing, 2015; revised paperback edition, 2017), which won the main Inner Temple Book Prize in 2018, JC Smith's The Law of Contract (3rd ed, OUP, 2021), and a co-author of Equity and Trusts: Text, Cases and Materials (3rd ed, OUP, 2019 (with Graham Virgo)). Paul is also an editor of both Chitty on Contracts and Snell's Equity. In 2020 Paul was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law.
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James Penner is Professor at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Since 1992, he has taught law at Brunel University, the London School of Economics, King's College London, and from 2008 until 2013 as Professor of Property Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He has been a visiting professor in China, Canada, Belgium, and Australia.