New Work in Property Law

Since 2013 the UCL Private Law Group  has held an annual workshop to support early-career scholars working in the field of private law.

The 2023 day-long closed workshop is convened by Fabiana Bettini and Charles Mitchell.

Six property law scholars will present the following papers:

1. Vicki Ball (KCL), ‘The Future of Conversion in Light of the Digital Assets Consultation’
   Commentator: Simon Douglas (Oxford)
2. Emily Carroll (Birmingham), ‘Market Disruption and the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954’
   Commentator: Emily Walsh (Portsmouth)
3. Stephen Hawes (UCL), ‘Proper Purposes and Best Interests in the Pensions Context’
   Commentator: Andreas Televantos (Oxford)
4. Mary Jiyani (Oxford), ‘Protection and Pre-emption: Regulating Native Land Transfers in a Colonial Protectorate’ -
   Commentator: Allison Lindner (UCL)
5. Joyman Lee (Glasgow), ‘Land Law in Francophone West Africa: The Failure of Commission-Led Reform’
   Commentator: Juanita Pienaar (Stellenbosch)
6. Bróna McNeill (QUB), ‘Managing Complexity in Agricultural Landholding: Putting Progressive Property to Work’
   Commentator: Rachael Walsh (TCD)

There will finally be a discussion of the Supreme Court’s decision in Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27, following a lecture about the case by John Mee (Cork).

About the UCL Private Law Group

UCL Laws brings together a vibrant group of researchers working on private law, whose activities include critical doctrinal analysis of obligations and property law, legal history, legal theory and comparative law. Members of the Private Law Group have published many highly regarded books and articles in these areas, and are actively engaged in organising conferences, lectures and workshops to promote informed engagement with current issues in private law scholarship and to build academic capacity in the field of private law. Read more about the group at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/centres-and-institutes/ucl-private-law-group