Charlotte Ellis

Profile

Biography

Dr Charlotte Ellis

BA (Oxon), BCL (European and Comparative Law) (Oxon), BVC (Inns of Court School of Law), FHEA, PhD (York). 

Lecturer

I joined York Law School as permanent member of staff in 2024, having worked here on a casual basis for over a decade.  I was Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University, Newcastle from 2008 – 2024.  Before becoming an academic I was a barrister at Keating Chambers, London where I specialised in construction and engineering disputes and taught on the LLM Programme at Queen Mary University of London.

I completed a PhD in December 2023 at the University of York, funded by the AHRC through WRoCAH.  My doctoral thesis, entitled ‘Methodology in Contract Scholarship’, shows how more explicit consideration of methodological questions can both enrich and advance the dialogues within contract scholarship.  It develops a theoretical framework which can be used to draw out and explain scholars’ methodological differences.  The thesis also examines the dialogue between contract scholarship and the courts using qualitative interviews with High Court and Court of Appeal judges.

Research

Overview

• Contract law and related aspects of the law of restitution

Publications

Selected publications

• Chapter 15, Contract Law and the Legislature, TT Arvind, Jenny Steele (Hart 2020)
• Chapter 5, Testing and Defects in David Thomas (ed) Keating on NEC3 (Sweet & Maxwell 2012)
• Researcher, Keating on Construction Contracts 9th Edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2012)
• Original Author and Contributor to Isurv Contract Administration (RICS online resource, updated quarterly) from 2008 – 2012
• Contributing Author, Keating on Construction Contracts, First Supplement to 8th Edition (Sweet & Maxwell 2009)

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Obligations 1
• Obligations 2

External activities

Memberships

• Society of Legal Scholars (SLS)
• North East Region Obligations Group (NEROG)
• Middle Temple