Dr Stephen Swann

Senior Lecturer

School of Law

Email:: stephen.swann@bcu.ac.uk
Phone:: +44 (0)121 331 6398

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 Częstochowa, Poland and has given guest lectures in Rijeka, Croatia, sponsored by the Deutsche Stiftung für 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.

Qualifications

Memberships

Research

Publications

“A DCFR Perspective on the Plight of the Franchisee”, European Review of Private Law (2014) vol. 22, pp. 1055-1064

‘Staatshaftung für Verstöße gegen EU-Recht aus europäischer Sicht’, in: Christian von Bar und Arkadiusz Wudarski (eds.), Deutschland und Polen in der europäischen Rechtsgemeinschaft (Munich: Sellier, 2012), pp. 299 – 323

“Die Queen und das britische Parlament”, IJVO-Heft 2009-10 (2011), pp. 99 – 112

“Aims and Context”, Edinburgh Law Review (2011) vol 15, pp. 463-466 (within the Symposium on DCFR Book X (Trusts))

‘Donations in the internal market: a contribution to the CFR debate’, in: Magdalena Habdas und Arkadiusz Wudarski (eds.), Ius est ars boni et aequi. Festschrift für Satnisława Kalus (Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang, 2010), pp. 541 – 556

Gutachten zum internationalen und ausländischen Privatrecht (IPG) 2007/2008 (2010) pp. 132 – 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)

‘The Structure of Liability for Unjustified Enrichment: First Proposals of the Study Group on a European Civil Code’, in: Reinhard Zimmermann (ed.), Grundstrukturen eines Europäischen Bereicherungsrechts. Tagung der privatrechtlichen Sektion der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Rechtsvergleichung in Dresden, September 2003 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2005), pp. 265 – 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 – 398

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

Gutachten zum internationalen und ausländischen Privatrecht (IPG) 2000/2001 (2004) pp. 88 – 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. 595 – 622

“Der Erbensucherfall nach englischem und irischem Recht”, European Review of Private Law (2002) vol. 10, pp. 589 – 595

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

‘The Historical Development of the UK Definition of Charity Reviewed’, in:Christine R. Barker and Sabine Selbig (eds.), Charity Law and Change. British and German Perspectives / Gemeinnützigkeitsrecht im Wandel. Britische und deutsche Perspektiven (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002), pp. 79 – 105

‘A European Civil Code. Legal and Political Foundations’ 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 – 57

‘Das Bereicherungsrechtskonzept der Study Group on a European Civil Code’, in: Manfred Wandt et al. (ed.), Kontinuität und Wandel des Versicherungsrechts. Festschrift für Egon Lorenz (Karlsruhe: Versicherungswirtschaft, 2004), pp. 43 – 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) – contributions to: Scottish Charity Legislation: An Evaluation (Scottish Executive Central Research Unit, 2000)

‘Justifying the Ban on Politics in Charity’, in: Alison Dunn (ed.), The Voluntary Sector, the State and the Law (Oxford: Hart, 2000), pp. 161 – 175

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