Academic profile

 

I am Professor of Transnational Law at the European University Institute in Florence, and Professor of Environmental and Property Law, University of Cambridge. My main areas of research are environmental law and land law. My most recent publications include a textbook on land law and an edited collection concerned with biodiversity protection in the EU.

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching

 

I teach Land Law, Landlord and Tenant Law, and Comparative Environmental Law.

 

 

 

 

Research interests

 

In particular, I focus in particular on controls of use of land, including biodiversity protection, contaminated land, waste, and planning law. I combine this with research on land law and landlord and tenant law. More recently, my research has expanded to cover the use of scientific information by courts, and the relationship between different national courts in relation to climate change.


 

Publications

 

 

 

Books (sole authored)

 

  1. The Principles of Land Law (OUP, 2020).

 

  1. Interpreting Environmental Offences: The Need for Certainty (Hart, 2015).

 

Books (co-authored)

 

  1. Forthcoming, Environmental Law, with D McGillivray, S Bell, E Lees, O W Pedersen and E Stokes (OUP, 2022). Previous edition, 2017.

 

  1. Environmental Adjudication (Hart, 2020), with O W Pedersen.

 

  1. Q & A Land Law 2014-2015, with M J Dixon (Routledge, 2014).

 

  1. Q & A Land Law 2013-2014, with M J Dixon and G Ll H Griffiths, (Routledge, 2012).

 

Edited Collections

 

  1. Environmental Principles in Court: The Case Study of the Habitats Directive (Hart, 2022), with M Eliantonio and T Paloniitty.

 

  1. Climate Policy after the 2015 Paris Conference (Routledge, 2021) with J Depledge, J E Viñuales and D Reiner.

 

  1. Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, with J E Viñuales (OUP, 2019).

 

  1. Environmental and Energy Law Vol I-III (Part of The International Library of Law and the Environment series), with J E Viñuales (Edward Elgar, 2017).

 

Journal Special Issues

 

  1. Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law – “Regulatory Issues in Property Law”, editorial “Regulation and the Morphology of Property”.

 

  1. Climate Policy – “Climate Policy after the 2015 Paris Conference”, with J E Viñuales, J Depledge, and D M Reiner, (2017) Vol 17, Issue 1.

 

Book Chapters

 

  1. Forthcoming, “Seeking Environmental Information” in Aine Ryall and Gregory Jones (Hart, 2022).

 

  1.  “’Science’ in Court – the Importance of Specificity” with T Paloniitty in Environmental Principles in Court: The Case Study of the Habitats Directive (Hart, 2022), E Lees, M Eliantonio and T Paloniitty

 

  1. “Justifying Security of Tenure” in S Farran et al, Modern Studies in Property Law Vol. 11 (Bloomsbury, 2021).

 

  1. Land registration in England and Wales: problems, solutions and missed opportunities” in D Grinlinton and R Thomas, with M Dixon Land Registration and Title Security in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2020).

 

  1. “Value in Comparative Law–3D Cartography and Analytical Description” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, E Lees and J E Viñuales (OUP, 2019), 35-56.

 

  1. “The European Union” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, E Lees and J E Viñuales (OUP, 2019), with M Gehring and F Phillips, 149-170.

 

  1. “Contaminated Sites” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, E Lees and J E Viñuales (OUP, 2019), 626-646.

 

  1. “Adjudication Systems” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, E Lees and J E Viñuales (OUP, 2019), 790-810.

 

  1. “Environmental Law and Criminal Law” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, E Lees and J E Viñuales (OUP, 2019), 1119-1138.

 

  1. “Guaranteed Title, No Title Guaranteed” in New Perspectives on Land Registration, A Goymour et al (Hart, 2018) 97-116.

 

  1. “The Public Face of the Register: Confidence in the Land Registration Act 2002” in Das Grundbuch im Europa des 21. Jahrhunderts, A Wudarski (Duncker & Humblot, 2016) 371-394.

 

  1. “Contamination and the Polluter Pays Principle” in Implementing Environmental Law, P Martin & K Kennedy (Edward Elgar, 2015) 118-133.

 

  1. “State Guaranteed Title: the Land Registration Act 2002” in Property Law Perspectives III, D Gruyaert et al (Intersentia, 2015) 117-134.

 

Articles, Notes and Reviews—Sole Authored

 

  1. “Integrity as Capacity” (2022) 34 Journal of Environmental Law 387.

 

  1. “Continuing Nuisance and Limitation in the Court of Appeal: Jalla v Shell (2022) 24 Environmental Law Review 128.

 

  1. Fearn v Tate Galleries: Privacy and the Law of Nuisance” (2021) Environmental Law Review.

 

  1. “The Boundaries in Land Law: Trusts, Estoppel, Validity and Value”, [2020] Conv 99-108.

 

  1. “Langton v Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs: Badger Cull in the Court of Appeal”, (2020) 22 Environmental Law Review 43-48.

 

  1. “Regulation and the Morphology of Property” (2019) Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law (editorial), 82-86.

 

  1. “Property in the Anthropocene” (2019) 43 William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review 514-593.

 

  1. “End of Waste Status and the Re-establishment of the Definition of Waste Panel” (2018) 20(4) Environmental Law Review 233-239.

 

  1. “Liability for Contaminated Land: Powys County Council v Price” (2018) 20(2) Environmental Law Review 39-45.

 

  1. “Agency, Knowledge and Good Faith in Land Registration: Knightsbridge Property Development Corporation (UK) Limited v South Chelsea Properties Limited” [2018] Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 76-84.

 

  1. “Article 8, Proportionality and Horizontal Effect” (2017) 133 Law Quarterly Review 31-36.

 

  1. Mortgage Express v Lambert: Mere Equities and Overreaching” [2017] Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 71-82.

 

  1. “Concretising the Precautionary Principle in Habitats Protection—Grüne Lige Sachsen v Freistaat Sachsen and Orleans v Vlaams Gewest” (2017) 19 Environmental Law Review 126-132.

 

  1. “Responsibility and Liability for Climate Loss and Damage after Paris” (2017) 17 Climate Policy 59-70.

 

  1. “Allocation of decision-making power under the Habitats Directive” (2016) 28 Journal of Environmental Law 191-219. Winner of the Richard Macrory Prize for the Best Paper in the Journal of Environmental Law 2016.

 

  1. “Powers of the beneficiary of a charge” (2016) 80 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 157-167.

 

  1. “The polluter pays principle and the remediation of land” (2016) 8 International Journal of Law in the Built Environment 2-20.

 

  1. “Encroachments and schedule 6 LRA 2002: unknotting the tangle” (2015) 79 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 110-122.

 

  1. MacDonald v MacDonald: horizontal effect of Article 8” (2015) 131 Law Quarterly Review 34-39. Discussed by the Supreme Court in Versloot Dredging BV v HDI Gerling Industrie Versicherung AG [2016] UKSC 45.

 

  1. “Rectification of the register—prospective or retrospective?” (2015) 78 Modern Law Review 361-371.

 

  1. “Registration make-believe and forgery—Swift 1st Ltd v Chief Land Registrar” (2015) 131 Law Quarterly Review 515-519.

 

  1. “Indemnity and the Land Registration Act 2002” (2014) 73 Cambridge Law Journal 250-253.

 

  1. Lawrence v Fen Tigers: noise in the Supreme Court” (2014) 78 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 449-460.

 

  1. “Localism and environmental law: uneasy bedfellows?” [2014] Journal of Planning and Environmental Law 176-180.

 

  1. “The meaning of ‘deposit’: Thames Water v Bromley Magistrates’ Court” (2014) 26 Journal of Environmental Law 1-9.

 

  1. “Actions for possession in the context of political protest: the role of article one, protocol one and horizontal effect” (2013) 77 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 43-53.

 

  1. Keay v Morris Homes and section 2 Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989” (2013) 77 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 68-74.

 

  1. Richall Holdings v Fitzwilliam: Malory v Cheshire Homes and the LRA 2002” (2013) 76 Modern Law Review 924-934.

 

  1. “Title by registration—rectification, indemnity and mistake and the Land Registration Act 2002” (2013) 76 Modern Law Review 62-82.

 

  1. “Interpreting the contaminated land regime: should the ‘polluter’ pay?” (2012) 14 Environmental Law Review 98-110.

 

  1. “The contaminated land regime—new guidance, and a new philosophy?” (2012) 14 Environmental Law Review 267-278.

 

  1. “Pushing the boundaries of Dutton” (2011) 75 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 74-82 (as Lochery).

 

  1. “Causing contamination: R (Crest Nicholson Residential Limited) v Secretary of State for the Environment” (2010) 140 Scottish Planning and Environmental Law Journal 90-91 (as Lochery).

 

Articles and NotesCo-Authored

 

  1. “Morphological analysis of legal ideology: locating interpretive divergence” (2018) 10 Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law 5-16 (with E Shepherd).

 

  1. “Interests, powers and mere equities in modern land law” (2017) 37 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 435-460 (with S Cooper).

 

  1. “Incoherence and incompatibility in planning law” (2015) 7 International Journal of Law in the Built Environment 111-126 (with E Shepherd). Winner of the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2016 Highly Commended award.

 

 

 


 

Current PhD students

 

Farhana Hamid Butt

Gonzalo Vial Forcade

 

 

 


 

Recent PhD students

 

Saksi

Giulio Corsi

Douglas Maxwell

 

 

 


 

Category/Classification

 

Environment, Law


 

Research Centres