David Campbell (academic)
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David Campbell is a British Professor and the Head of the Law Department at Durham University until 2008. His subject area is English contract law. He became Head of Department in 2005, a year after joining the faculty. Since then more than ten staff members have left Durham for other insitutions. They have been replaced with new academics.
Professor Campbell received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Cardiff University in 1980 and later an LLM from the University of Michigan Law School and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Since 1985, he has taught at a number of British Universities and in Australia, Hong Kong and Spain. Before coming to Durham, he was a Professor of Law at the Law School at Cardiff University.
As a lecturer on contract law, Professor Campbell departs from the traditional method of teaching contract law, stressing the importance of remedies by teaching it first before formation of contracts. As his research shows, he sees contract law in the context of a free market and much of his research involves law and economics theory.
As the head of department, he has changed the structure of the curriculum. For many years, legal skills have been integrated into each individual module but now they are also taught in a separate legal skills module[1].
He is widely known in Durham for his right-of-centre views. Moreover, he stems from Middlesbrough and is an enthusiastic supporter of Middlesbrough F.C..
