Dr Aisha Shah

Lecturer in Law and Programme Leader for the LLM in Legal Practice

School of Law

Contact Details

email: s.shah@worc.ac.uk

Aisha is a Lecturer at the School of Law. Her research interests lie in the field of English Private Law and in particular claims for restitution in equity, trusts and unjust enrichment.

Her completed doctoral thesis is titled ‘Proprietary Claims and Restitution’ and focuses on the availability of proprietary responses in the law of unjust enrichment. Her research uses the classic example of mistaken payment as the basis for developing her approach and builds upon the work of the late Professor Peter Birks.

Aisha is the Module Leader for Land Law, and teaches on the Land Law, Equity and Trusts, and Contract Law modules on the LLB programme. She 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.

Aisha also leads the extra-curricular internal mooting competitions and events and is responsible for entering and supporting students in national mooting competitions.

Qualifications

PhD Proprietary Claims and Unjust Enrichment (Pass with no corrections).

LLB Law with Management (First Class Honours).

 

Selected Publications

Journal articles

  • A Shah (2021), ‘Unjust Enrichment and Proprietary Restitution’ The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, 85 (4), 352-364.
  • A Shah (2017), ‘Proprietary Restitution and Receipt by Insolvent Agents: Angove’s Pty Ltd v Bailey’ Trust Law International, 31 (1), 30-36.          

Conference Papers

  • A Shah, ‘The Ex parte James Principle and Insolvency Priority’, The Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference (Restitution Section), 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 Annual 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.

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.

Teaching Activity

Aisha is the Module Leader for LLB Land Law. She teaches Land Law, Equity & Trusts and Contract Law on the LLB undergraduate programme.

Teaching Qualifications

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

Research Interests

  • Equity
  • Private law
  • Property
  • Trusts
  • Unjust Enrichment

Membership of Professional Bodies

  • Member of the British Academy Early Career Research Network
  • Member of the Society of Legal Scholars.
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Awards

  • 2021: nominated for the ‘Outstanding Lecturer’ and ‘Excellence in Online Teaching’ Awards in the Worcester Student Union’s Student Choice Awards.
  • 2015: Dean’s Law Scholarship.
  • 2015: Oxford University Press Prize for Final Year Student Achieving Highest Overall Mark in Law Modules in the LLB Programme at Aston University.
  • 2014: Thomson Reuters’ Prize for Best Second Year Student.
  • 2013: St Philips Chambers’ Prize for Best Performance in the First Year Constitutional and Administrative Law Module