Dr Derek Whayman
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Lecturer in Law
- Lecturer in Law
- Examinations Officer
Areas of interest
Derek is primarily interested in trust and fiduciary law with a particular interest in how a huge corpus of law developed from a very basic idea - holding property on behalf of another. His approach is therefore both historical and coherence-based. He has published numerous articles on the issues within this complex field and is writing a book focusing on the trust's proprietary aspect. It will argue that the engineering of proprietary features was the predominant concern of the judges, and that the trust can be seen as a right against a right is merely secondary accordingly.
Derek will be pleased to take enquiries from prospective PhD students in any field of property or trust law, broadly construed.
Teaching
Module lecturer and seminarist for the following courses
- Land Law
- Equity & Trusts
- Property Law, Rights and Institutions
- Real Estate and Planning Law
Background
Derek joined the School of Law in a lecturer in August 2024. He previously worked at Newcastle University where he was awarded a PhD in law, having taken an LLM at the University of Leeds where he won the prize for best LLM Senior Status degree. He has taught Land Law, Equity and Trusts, The Law of Secured Credit and The Law of Succession amongst others through this time.
Academic qualifications
- PhD (Newcastle, 2016)
- LLM (Leeds, 2011)
- BA/MA (Cambridge, 1994)
Professional bodies/affiliations
- Fellow of Advance HE (formerly the Higher Education Academy)
- The Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn