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

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. He is also the Law School’s Mooting Coordinator.

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. 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. It also extends to volunteering within his local communities, such as when he worked 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 is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy.

Undergraduate Teaching

  • LAW5003/LAW6056 Equity & Trusts
  • LAW4006 Land Law

Research

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

His works in progress span areas of private law doctrine, jurisprudence, legal education, and artificial intelligence.

He is co-editing a special issue on legal and political notions of trusting in the International Journal of Law and Context.

Dr Madden has presented his work at conferences in Australia, Canada, the UK, and the US.

Publications

Articles:

Conference Papers:

  • ‘Remembering Bacon v Pianta: Is the Prohibition of Private Purpose Trusts Political’, Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal Conference (University of British Columbia, 19 February, 2026)
  • ‘Shocks the Conscience of the Court’: Resensitising the English Unconscionable Bargain Doctrine’, Society of Legal Scholars Conference (University of Leeds, 3 September, 2025)
  • ‘Context, Courage, and Conscience: Teaching Unconscionable Conduct in Australia’, Australasian Law Academics Association 2025 Conference (University of Queensland, 3 July 2025)
  • 'The Future of Equitable Privacy Protection Under the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2024', Private and Commercial Law Annual Conference 2024 (University of Western Australia, 9 December 2024)
  • 'Revitalising Unconscionable Dealing in English Law Through Interjurisdictional Teaching', New Trends in Teaching Contract Law: Association of Law Teachers Conference (University of Sussex, 12 September 2024)
  • ‘Equity, “Revenge Porn”, and Cambridge Analytica: The Doctrine of Confidence as a Protection for Human Dignity in the Technological Age’, Law and Society Association Conference (Washington, DC, 5 May 2019)

Book Reviews:

  • ‘How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It)’ (2025) Counterpunch
  • ‘It’s OK to be Angry about Capitalism’ (2023) London School of Economics Review of Books
  • ‘Equity: Conscience Goes to Market’ (2020) 29 Social and Legal Studies 444-448

Supervision

Dr Madden has supervised an LLM dissertation that compared British and American approaches to piercing the corporate veil. He is presently supervising an LLM dissertation about Turkish approaches to privacy protection. Dr Madden welcomes proposals for postgraduate supervision in the fields of private law, jurisprudence, and legal education.

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