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

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 (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. It also extends to volunteering within his local communities, such as when he worked 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; Jurisprudence; Legal History; Legal Education; Artificial Intelligence, Moral Philosophy.

Dr Madden is currently pursuing a research agenda focused on the relationship between human dignity and the law of Equity and Trusts. His recently submitted papers span areas of jurisprudence, private law doctrine, legal education, and artificial intelligence. He will also be co-editing a special issue on legal and political notions of trusting in the International Journal of Law and Context.

He has presented his work at conferences in Australia, the UK, and the US.

Publications

Articles:

• 'Equity in Kantian Morality: Unmuting the 'Divinity who Never Speaks’’ (2025) Kantian Review (forthcoming)
• ‘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
• ‘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

Conference Papers

• '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:

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