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Dr Raul Madden, PhD, BA (History & Cultural Heritage), LLB (Hons), Grad Dip Leg Prac, AFHEA

Raul

Lecturer in Law

Email: r.madden@qmul.ac.uk
Room Number: 111B, Laws, Mile End

Profile

Dr Madden is a Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary University of London. His teaching and research are centered on private law – especially Equity & Trusts. At present, he teaches undergraduate modules in Equity & Trusts and Land Law.

Between 2018 and 2023, Dr Madden taught private law modules at Kent Law School (KLS) here he completed his doctoral thesis entitled ‘A Dignity Theory of Equity’. His teaching included Equity & Trusts, Tort Law, Law of Contract, Foundations of Property Law, and Introduction to Obligations (2018 – 2023). During this time, he enjoyed helping students reach their potential in his role as an Academic Advisor. He joined KLS in 2018 when he was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Research Scholarship. 
Between 2013 and 2018, he worked for Griffith University’s Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Tutorial Assistance Program, tutoring students in every core law module offered by the university, as well as a range of law electives and humanities modules.

His professional experience includes positions at various law practices across a range of areas. He often contributes his services within his local communities, such as by volunteering as a legal assistant at the Environmental Defenders Office (Qld).

Dr Madden is admitted as a lawyer of the Supreme Court of Queensland. He holds a PhD in the field of Equity & Trusts, BA (History & Cultural Heritage) and LLB (Hons) degrees, a Graduate Diploma Legal Practice, and an Associate Fellowship of Higher Education.

Undergraduate Teaching

  • LAW5003/LAW6056 Equity & Trusts
  • LAW4006 Land Law

Research

Private law (especially Equity & Trusts); Commercial Law; Employment (including the ‘gig economy’); Privacy; Human Dignity; Legal Theory; Legal History; Legal Education; Moral Philosophy.

Dr Madden is currently pusruing a research agenda focused on the relationship between human dignity and the law of Equity and Trusts.

He presented his paper, ‘Equity, “Revenge Porn”, and Cambridge Analytica: The Doctrine of Confidence as a Protection for Human Dignity in the Technological Age’, at the Law and Society Association in Washington, DC, in May 2019.

Publications

  • ‘Book Review: It’s OK to be Angry about Capitalism’ (2023) London School of Economics Review of Books
  • ‘A New Gig for Unconscionability — Equity and Human Dignity in Uber Technologies v. Heller [2020]’ (2021) 9 Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity 110-152
  • ‘Book Review: Equity: Conscience Goes to Market’ (2020) 29 Social and Legal Studies 444-448
  • ‘Equity, “Revenge Porn”, and Cambridge Analytica: The Doctrine of Confidence as a Protection for Human Dignity in the Technological Age’ [2019] Griffith Journal of Law & Human Dignity 1-30

Supervision

Dr Madden welcomes proposals for postgraduate supervision in the fields of private law, legal theory, and legal education.

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