Professor Sarah Nield is Professor of Property Law within Southampton Law School at the University of Southampton.

Her research interests lie primarily in the fields of property law and equity, as well as company and commercial law. She has published widely in her areas of interest.

Her current research work focuses on the horizontal impact of human rights, the dynamics of property relations and security interests in property, both to support residential and corporate lending.

In relation to human rights her work examines the impact of human rights upon property principles primarily through Article 1 Protocol 1 and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR). At the present time she is exploring rights based influences on securing disability adaptions to property as well as approaches to the horizontal impact of the ECHR upon contractual and property relations.   

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