Dr Aisha Shah

Lecturer in Law, and Institute of Arts and Humanities Personal Academic Tutor Coordinator

Institute of Arts and Humanities

School of Law

Contact Details

email: s.shah@worc.ac.uk

Aisha is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester. She is the creator and coordinator of the Institute of Humanities Public Speaking Club and organises the annual public speaking competition. Aisha is currently also an Institute of Arts and Humanities Personal Academic Tutor Coordinator. She previously held a programme leadership role in the Law School.

Aisha’s research interests lie in the field of English Private Law and in particular claims for restitution in equity, trusts and unjust enrichment. She is principally interested in the intersection between the law of trusts, unjust enrichment and insolvency.

Aisha has published in the Law Quarterly Review, the Conveyancer and Property Lawyer journal, and Trust Law International. Her completed doctoral thesis focuses on the availability of proprietary responses in the law of unjust enrichment. Her research uses the classic example of the mistaken payment as the basis for developing her approach and builds upon the work of the late Professor Peter Birks.

Aisha teaches on the Equity and Trusts, Contract Law and Professional Legal Skills and Ethics modules on the LLB programme. She has also previously taught on the undergraduate Land Law modules, and she was previously the Module Leader for the Land Law module and the Project (dissertation) module on the LLB Law degree programme. Aisha has been nominated by students for her teaching in the Worcester Student Union’s Student Choice Awards for the ‘Outstanding Lecturer’ and ‘Excellence in Online Teaching’ awards.

Qualifications

  • PhD Proprietary Claims and Unjust Enrichment (without corrections)
  • LLB Law with Management (First Class Honours)
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (PgCert LTHE)

Publications and other research activity

Journal articles

  • A. Shah, ‘The Rule in Ex parte James’ (2024) 140 Law Quarterly Review 595-619.
  • A. Shah, ‘Unjust Enrichment and Proprietary Restitution’ (2021) 85 The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 352-364.
  • A. Shah, ‘Proprietary Restitution and Receipt by Insolvent Agents: Angove’s Pty Ltdv Bailey’ (2017) 31 Trust Law International 30-36.

Conference Papers

  • A. Shah, ‘The Ex parte James Principle and Insolvency Priority’, The Society of Legal Scholars Conference (Restitution Section), University of Exeter, September 2020.
  • A. Shah, ‘Proprietary Restitution for Mistaken Payments’, Modern Studies in Property Law (Postgraduate stream), University College London, April 2018.
  • S. A. Shah, ‘Explaining the Basis of Proprietary Restitution’, The Society of Legal Scholars Conference (Restitution Section), University of Oxford, September 2016.

Research seminars

  • A Shah, ‘The Rule in Ex parte James’, School of Law’s Winter Research Workshop, University of Worcester, December 2021.

Legal education and pedagogy (conferences and workshops)

  • A. Shah, ‘Bringing law and legal skills to life in Law School: utilising role-play in the law classroom and broader curriculum’, Summer Research Workshop (Legal Education & Pedagogy), University of Worcester, (forthcoming, 9th October 2024).
  • A. Shah, ‘How to run practice client interviews with large groups in the law classroom (with a demonstration)’, Teaching show and tell: Sharing Learning and Teaching Practices Workshop, University of Worcester, 9th September 2024.
  • A. Shah and J. McGowan, ‘Developing the student voice through creative projects: the School of Humanities public speaking initiative’, University of Worcester Learning and Teaching Conference: a community of learning, June 2024.
  • A. Shah, ‘Public speaking for university students’, University of Worcester Student Experience Conference: promoting positive student experiences, June 2023.

Funding

  • Successfully applied for funding under the Students as Academic Partners Scheme (University of Worcester, 2023) project titled ‘Developing the student voice through creative projects: the School of Humanities public speaking initiative’.
  • Dean’s Law Scholarship (funded 3 years of doctoral research).

Research posters

  • A Shah, ‘Proprietary Restitution for Mistaken Payments’, Modern Studies in Property Law, University College London, April 2018.
  • A Shah, ‘Mistaken Payments: Proprietary Restitution and the Role of Conscience’, Queen Mary University of London Postgraduate Legal Research Conference, June 2016.

Research Interests

  • Equity
  • Insolvency Law
  • Private law
  • Restitution
  • Rights to property
  • Trusts
  • Unjust Enrichment
  • Intersection between the law of obligations and the law of property
  • Legal education and pedagogy

I am currently working on projects that explore the concept of developing the student voice. I am keen to get involved or hear from anyone working on similar projects.

Teaching Activity

  • Equity and Trusts Law (LLBL3003)
  • Dissertation (LLBL3011)
  • Land Law (LLBL3014)
  • Land Law (LLBL2001)
  • Contract Law (LLBL1001)
  • Professional Legal Skills and Ethics (LLBL1004)

Teaching Qualifications

  • Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (2019)
  • Introduction to Learning and Teaching Practice (2017)

Responsibilities

  • Institute of Arts and Humanities Personal Academic Tutor Coordinator
  • School of Humanities Personal Academic Tutor Coordinator
  • Programme Leader for the LLM in Legal Practice
  • Creator and coordinator of the Institute of Humanities Public Speaking Club and annual public speaking competition
  • Second Year Tutor for the LLB Law programme
  • Module Leader for Land Law (undergraduate, level 5 and level 6 modules)
  • Module Leader for LLB Project (dissertation) (undergraduate, level 6 module)
  • Interim Module Leader for Equity and Trusts (undergraduate, level 6)
  • Interim Module Leader for Contract Law (undergraduate, level 4)
  • Module Leader for Property Law and Practice (postgraduate, LLM module)

Membership of Professional Bodies

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
  • Member of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)
  • Member of the Association of Law Teachers (ALT)
  • Member of the British Academy Early Career Research Network
  • Ordinary member of the Constitutions, Rights and Justice (CRJ) Research Group (University of Worcester)

Awards

  • Nominated for the ‘Outstanding Lecturer’ and ‘Excellence in Online Teaching’ awards in the Worcester Student Union’s Student Choice Awards
  • Dean’s Law Scholarship (funded 3 years of doctoral studies)
  • Oxford University Press Prize for ‘final year student achieving highest overall mark in Law modules in the LLB Programme’
  • Thomson Reuters’ Prize for ‘best second year student’
  • St Philips Chambers’ Prize for ‘best performance in the first year Constitutional and Administrative Law module’