- David Campbell (legal academic)
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For other people of the same name, see David Campbell (disambiguation).
David Campbell (born 1958)[1] is a British professor and former Head of the Law Department at Durham University.
Campbell received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Cardiff University in 1980 and later an LLM from the University of Michigan Law School and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Since 1985, he has taught at a number of British universities and in Australia, Hong Kong and Spain. Before coming to Durham, he was a Professor of Law at the Law School at Cardiff University.
His subject area is English contract law. He emphasizes the relationship he perceives between contract law and free markets.[citation needed]
In lecturing on contract law, Campbell departs from the traditional method of teaching contract law, stressing the importance of remedies by teaching that area before teaching formation of contracts.
Campbell became Head of Department in June 2005, a year after joining the faculty. In that role, he oversaw a change to the structure of the curriculum: for many years, legal skills had been integrated into each individual module but now they are also taught in a separate legal skills module.
Campbell was pressed to stand down in October 2007 following a university management review supported by Professor Allen. Campbell gave up the Headship in early December 2007 and Professor Allen took over. David Campbell was described as having an 'idiosyncratic' style of management by former colleagues.[2]
Campbell remains a Professor in the Law School at Durham.
References
- ^ GetCited entry
- ^ '"Idiosyncratic" Durham Law School head steps aside following review', Times Higher Education, 9th November 2007
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