Jonathan Garton
Professor
Director of Academic Practice
Charities; Equity & Trusts; Legal History
School of Law
S2.22, Social Sciences Building
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
024 761 51754
Office Hours TBD
Jonathan's main research interests are in the law of trusts, particularly charities, and legal history. His books include The Regulation of Organised Civil Society (Hart 2009), volume 8 (Charities) of Halsbury's Law of England (5th ed, Lexis 2010); Public Benefit in Charity Law (OUP 2013) and Moffat's Trusts Law (7th ed, CUP 2020).
Recent publications include "Charitable Trusts and Public Foundations" in Mark Bennett et al (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Trust Laws (OUP 2025) and "Jones v Williams (1767): The First Definition of Charity" in Rebecca Fry and John Picton (eds), Landmark Cases in Charity Law (Hart 2027).
He is currently writing two books: one on commercial trusts for Edward Elgar’s Principles of Commercial Law series and another on the impact of the Charities Act 2006 for Cambridge University Press's Elements of Legislation in Context series.