David Campbell (legal academic)

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David Campbell (born 1958)^[1] is a British professor and former Head of the Law Department at Durham University.

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.

His subject area is English contract law. He emphasizes the relationship he perceives between contract law and free markets.^{[citation needed]}

In lecturing on contract law, Campbell departs from the traditional method of teaching contract law, stressing the importance of remedies by teaching that area before teaching formation of contracts.

He became Head of Department in 2005, a year after joining the faculty. Near the end of 2007, Campbell relinquished the headship, having been awarded a period of university research leave.