Land Law: Themes and Perspectives provides a collection of specially commissioned essays for students studying land law at undergraduate level. The book brings together leading authors, as well as some younger scholars, and explores land law from a variety of traditions within legal scholarship. The book contains chapters on topics essential to all land law courses, and seeks to question the boundaries of the discipline and to engage with wider debates about the role of land in society.
The five parts of the book address separate themes within land law. The first part explores what is meant by 'property in land'. Part two sets land law in a historical perspective, from romanist ideas on land through to recent land law reforms. Part three explores the connections between land law and citizenship, with chapters on women's claims to property, adverse possession, mortgages, homelessness, indigenous peoples in Australia, and post-apartheid laws in South Africa. Part four discusses a range of policy issues from the family home to the increasing 'europeanization of land law'. The final part of the book explores land law from a more traditional, doctrinal perspective, opening with a chapter setting out the five keys to an understanding of land law.
It will be invaluable reading for all undergraduate students of land law as well as postgraduate students and researchers working in the area.
Edited by:
Susan Bright (Fellow and Tutor St Hilda's College Oxford),
John Dewar (Professor of Law,
Griffith University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 34mm
Weight: 960g
ISBN: 9780198764557
ISBN 10: 0198764553
Pages: 620
Publication Date: 01 May 1998
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Notes on Contributors Introduction Part One: Property in Land 1: Kevin Gray and Susan Gray: The Idea of Property in Land 2: Gregory S. Alexander: Critical Land Law Part Two: Land Law in History 3: Joshua Getzler: Roman Ideas of Land Ownership 4: Stuart Anderson: The 1925 Property Legislation: Setting Contexts 5: Alain Pottage: Evidencing Ownership 6: Charles Harpum: The Law Commission and the Reform of Land Law Part Three: Land Law and Citizenship 7: Lisa Whitehouse: The Home Owner: Citizen or Consumer? 8: Anne Bottomley: Women and Trust(s): Portraying the Family in the Gallery of Law 9: Kate Green: Citizens and Squatters: Under the Surfaces of Land Law 10: David Cowan and Julia Fionda: Homelessness 11: Shaunnagh Dorsett: Land Law and Dispossession: Indigenous Rights to Land in Australia 12: Michael Robertson: Land and Post-Apartheid Reconstruction in South Africa Part Four: Policy Issues in Land Law 13: John Dewar: Land, Law and the Family Home 14: Cristopher Bright and Susan Bright: Europe, the Nation State and Land 15: David Clarke: Occupying `Cheek by Jowl' Property Issues Arising From Communal Living 16: Michael Cardwell: Land and Agricultural Production 17: Denzil Millichap: Real Property and its Regulation: The Community Rights Rationale for Town Planning Part Five: Doctrinal Issues in Land Law 18: Peter Birks: Before We Begin: Five Keys to Land Law 19: Graham Battersby: Informally Created Interests in Land 20: Patricia Critchley: Taking Formalities Seriously 21: Susan Bright: Of Estates and Interests: A Tale of Ownership and Property Rights
Susan Bright is Fellow and Tutor in Law at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is the author (with G. Gilbert) of Landlord and Tenant Law: The Nature of Tenancies (OUP, 1995). John Dewar is Professor of Law at Griffith University, Australia. His publications include Law and the Family 2/e (1992), Cohabitants (with S. Parker, 1996), and Trusts Law: Text and Materials 2/e (with G. Moffat and J. Bean, 1994).
Reviews for Land Law: Themes and Perspectives
"""While many of the chapters contain valuable novel insights into their subject matter, an understandable consequence of the volume's stated objectives is that much of its contents consist of reviews of existing material; this has the considerable merit of directing the interested reader on to sources of further study."" The Cambridge Law Journal"
