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
Term 1 Office Hours: Thursdays 1 - 2 and Fridays 10.30 - 11.30
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), the charities volume 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).
Some forthcoming publications include "Jones v Williams (1767): The First Definition of Charity" in Rebecca Fry and John Picton (eds), Landmark Cases in Charity Law (Hart 2027) and "The Irreducible Core of Charity Trustee Duties" in Steven Elliott, Paul Mitchell and Stephen Watterson (eds), The Heart of Equity (Hart 2027).
He is currently writing a book 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.