Dr Stephen Swann

Senior Lecturer

Email:: stephen.swann@bcu.ac.uk

Dr Swann lectured at Oxford Brookes University, the University of Leicester and the University of Dundee before becoming a teaching and research fellow at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. He has been a Research Assistant within the Property and Trust Law Team at the Law Commission.

He was a Visiting Professor at the Jana Dlugosz University in Cz臋stochowa, Poland and has given guest lectures in Rijeka, Croatia, sponsored by the Deutsche Stiftung f眉r Internationale Zusammenarbeit, as well as teaching at the British Studies Centre of Humboldt University in Berlin. He was a member of the Study Group on a European Civil Code.

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Research

Publications

鈥淎 DCFR Perspective on the Plight of the Franchisee鈥�, European Review of Private Law (2014) vol. 22, pp. 1055-1064

鈥楽taatshaftung f眉r Verst枚脽e gegen EU-Recht aus europ盲ischer Sicht鈥�, in: Christian von Bar und Arkadiusz Wudarski (eds.), Deutschland und Polen in der europ盲ischen Rechtsgemeinschaft (Munich: Sellier, 2012), pp. 299 鈥� 323

鈥淒ie Queen und das britische Parlament鈥�, IJVO-Heft 2009-10 (2011), pp. 99 鈥� 112

鈥淎ims and Context鈥�, Edinburgh Law Review (2011) vol 15, pp. 463-466 (within the Symposium on DCFR Book X (Trusts))

鈥楧onations in the internal market: a contribution to the CFR debate鈥�, in: Magdalena Habdas und Arkadiusz Wudarski (eds.), Ius est ars boni et aequi. Festschrift f眉r Satnis艂awa Kalus (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 541 鈥� 556

Gutachten zum internationalen und ausl盲ndischen Privatrecht聽 (IPG) 2007/2008 (2010) pp. 132 鈥� 173 (opinion on English law for the purposes of German civil court proceedings arising out of a road traffic accident)

Principles of European law. Unjustified Enrichment (PEL Unj. Enr.) (Munich: Sellier, 2009), (with Christian von Bar)

鈥楾he Structure of Liability for Unjustified Enrichment: First Proposals of the Study Group on a European Civil Code鈥�, in: Reinhard Zimmermann (ed.), Grundstrukturen eines Europ盲ischen Bereicherungsrechts. Tagung der privatrechtlichen Sektion der Deutschen Gesellschaft f眉r Rechtsvergleichung in Dresden, September 2003 (T眉bingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005), pp. 265 鈥� 286

Part 2, Ch. V (Trust law) in: Christian von Bar and Ulrich Drobnig (eds.), The Interaction of Contract Law and Tort and Property Law in Europe: A Comparative Study (Munich: Sellier, 2004), pp. 363 鈥� 398

鈥淎 Continent of Codes or One Code for a Continent?鈥� (2004) [Renmin University of China School of Law] Jurists Review, pp. 14 鈥� 21 (with Christian von Bar) [translated into Mandarin]

Gutachten zum internationalen und ausl盲ndischen Privatrecht聽 (IPG) 2000/2001 (2004) pp. 88 鈥� 110 (opinion on Hong Kong law of assignment for the purposes of German civil court proceedings) (with Christian von Bar)

Response to the Action Plan on European Contract Law: A More Coherent European Contract Law(COM (2003) 63), European Review of Private Law (2003) vol. 11, pp.聽595聽鈥撀�622

鈥淒er Erbensucherfall nach englischem und irischem Recht鈥�, European Review of Private Law (2002) vol. 10, pp. 589 鈥� 595

鈥淐ommunication on European Contract Law: Joint Response of the Commission of European Contract Law and the Study Group on a European Civil Code鈥�, European Review of Private Law (2002) vol. 10, pp. 183 鈥� 248 (with Christian von Bar and Ole Lando)

鈥楾he Historical Development of the UK Definition of Charity Reviewed鈥�, in:Christine R. Barker and Sabine Selbig (eds.), Charity Law and Change. British and German Perspectives / Gemeinn眉tzigkeitsrecht im Wandel. Britische und deutsche Perspektiven (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002), pp. 79 鈥� 105

鈥楢 European Civil Code. Legal and Political Foundations鈥� in: Guido Alpa and Emilio Nicola Buccico (eds), La Riforma dei Codici in Europa e il Progetto di Codice Civile Europeo (Milan: Giuffre, 2002), pp. 7 鈥� 57

鈥楧as Bereicherungsrechtskonzept der Study Group on a European Civil Code鈥�, in: Manfred Wandt et al. (ed.), Kontinuit盲t und Wandel des Versicherungsrechts. Festschrift f眉r Egon Lorenz (Karlsruhe: Versicherungswirtschaft, 2004), pp. 43 鈥� 68 (with Christian von Bar)

Deakin and Kemp Commission (Annex 1.1); Impact of the Scotland Act 1998 (Annex 1.2); A Comparative Study of Selected Jurisdictions of the Commonwealth (Annex 5.2) 鈥� contributions to: Scottish Charity Legislation: An Evaluation (Scottish Executive Central Research Unit, 2000)

鈥楯ustifying the Ban on Politics in Charity鈥�, in: Alison Dunn (ed.), The Voluntary Sector, the State and the Law (Oxford: Hart, 2000), pp. 161 鈥� 175

鈥淧art performance: back from the dead?鈥�, The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer [1997] pp. 293 鈥� 299 (case note on Singh v Beggs (1996) 71 P & CR 120)

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