Modern Studies in Property Law - Volume 4

Elizabeth Cooke is a Professor of Law at Reading University and a solicitor.

I - Keynote Address

1. Reforming Housing Law: A Progress Report
Martin Partington

II - Law and Equity

2. Equitable Co-ownership: Proprietary Rights in Name Only?
Martin Dixon

3. Why is the Law of Undue Influence so Hard to Understand and Apply?
Graham Ferris

4. The Lie of the Land: Mortgage Law as Legal Fiction
Gary Watt

5. Curbing the Enthusiasm of Finders
Robin Hickey

6. Leases: Rethinking Possession against Vulnerable Groups
Warren Barr

7. Reconciling Property Law and Social Security Law: Same Concepts, Different Meanings?
Nicholas Hopkins and Emma Laurie

III - Possession of Land

8. The Acquisition of Rights in Property by the Effluxion of Time
Amy Goymour

9. An Adjudication Rule for Encroachment Disputes: Adverse Possession or a Building Encroachment Statute?
Pamela O’Connor

10. de Soto Discovers the Prairies:Of Squatters and the Canadian West
Bruce Ziff and Sean Ward

IV - Property, Empire and Indigenous Title

11. Land Law and the Making of the British Empire
Patrick McAuslan

12. Translating Native Title to Individual ‘Title’ in Australia: Are Real Property Forms and Indigenous Interests Reconcilable?
Lee Godden and Maureen Tehan

13. Individual Title versus Collective Title in Australia: Reflections on the North American and New Zealand Experiences of Indigenous Title to Land
M A Stephenson