Academic Profile

After studying at the University of Leicester and Nottingham Law School, I trained as a solicitor with a large regional firm, practising in Commercial Litigation until 2002. I left to undertake an LLM at the University of Birmingham and was appointed to my current post from September 2003.

Member of the Institute of Commercial Law Studies Research Cluster.

Qualifications

• LLM, University of Birmingham;
• Diploma in Legal Practice, Nottingham Law School;
• LLB (Law with French), University of Leicester.

Research Interests

My research interests lie in the law of unjust enrichment and in restitution more generally.

Key Publications

Bracegirdle, K. (2007) Mistake in Contract Law and in Unjust Enrichment. In P. Giliker (ed.) Re-examining Contract and Unjust Enrichment: Anglo-Canadian Perspectives Martinus Nijhoff

Bracegirdle, K. (2005) Subrogation to a Security: Cheltenham & Gloucester –v- Appleyard [2005] LMCLQ 140

Recent Invited Papers and Keynote Lectures

In November 2008 I presented a paper on Restitution for Historic Slavery to a Conference entitled ‘Colonialism, Slavery, Reparations and Trade: Remedying the “Past”’ at the School of Oriental and African Studies.

Teaching

Undergraduate:

• Law of Restitution
• Contract Law