In contract law, unjust enrichment occurs when one person is enriched at the expense of another in circumstances that the law sees as unjust. Where an individual is unjustly enriched, the law imposes an obligation upon the recipient to make restitution, subject to defences such as change of position. Liability for an unjust enrichment arises irrespective of wrongdoing on the part of the recipient. The concept of unjust enrichment can be traced to Roman law and the maxim that "no one should be benefited at another's expense": nemo locupletari potest aliena iactura or nemo locupletari debet cum aliena iactura.
Nigel James Hitchin FRS is a British mathematician working in the fields of differential geometry, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at Oxford University.
Graham Virgo is a legal academic and barrister who is currently serving as the Senior Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education at the University of Cambridge. He is also Professor of English Private Law and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge. He is a leading academic in the law of restitution.
Robert Lionel Archibald Goff, Baron Goff of Chieveley, was an English barrister and former Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. He was the original co-author of Goff & Jones, the leading authoritative English law textbook on restitution and unjust enrichment. He subsequently practiced law as a commercial barrister and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1967. He was appointed a High Court judge in 1975, a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1982 and a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in 1986. He was appointed High Steward of the University of Oxford in 1991, a post he held until 2001.
Andrew Burrows QC (Hon) is a Professor of the Law of England and senior research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. His work centres on private law, and is the main editor of the compendium English Private Law, the convenor of the advisory group that produced A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust Enrichment as well as textbooks on English contract law.
Thomas Mowbray Charles-Edwards is an emeritus academic at Oxford University. He formerly held the post of Jesus Professor of Celtic and is a Professorial Fellow at Jesus College.
Charles Christopher James Mitchell QC (Hon) is a British legal scholar acknowledged as one of the leading common-law experts on the English law of restitution of unjust enrichment and the law of trusts. He is the author of two leading textbooks and one practitioner's book. He is currently Professor of Law at University College London and Senior Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.
The English law of unjust enrichment is part of the English law of obligations, along with the law of contract, tort, and trusts. The law of unjust enrichment deals with circumstances in which one person is required to make restitution of a benefit acquired at the expense of another in circumstances which are unjust.
Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract (2008) is a book by Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell, which outlines the key cases in English contract law.
Landmark Cases in Equity (2012) is a book edited by Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell, which outlines the key cases in English trusts law and equity.
Mark Goldie, FRHS is an English historian and Professor of Intellectual History at Churchill College, Cambridge. He has written on the English political theorist John Locke and is a member of the Early Modern History and Political Thought and Intellectual History subject groups at the Faculty of History in Cambridge.
Hambly v Trott is a landmark Court case in conversion and trover.
Phillips v Homfray is an important landmark decision in English law of restitution.
Birke Häcker is a German legal scholar. Since 2016, she has been the Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.
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