Dr Emma Lees

Books (sole authored)

• The Principles of Land Law (OUP, 2020).
• Interpreting Environmental Offences: The Need for Certainty (Hart, 2015).

Books (co-authored)

• Environmental Adjudication (2020), with O W Pedersen.
• Environmental Law, with D McGillivray, S Bell, E Lees, O W Pedersen and E Stokes (OUP, 2017), 872 pages.
• Q & A Land Law 2014-2015, with M J Dixon (Routledge, 2014), 230 pages.
• Q & A Land Law 2013-2014, with M J Dixon and G Ll H Griffiths, (Routledge, 2012), 304 pages.

Edited Collections

• Forthcoming, Climate Policy after the 2015 Paris Conference (Taylor & Francis, 2021) with J Depledge, J E Viñuales and D Reiner.
• Forthcoming, Environmental Principles in Court: The Case Study of the Habitats Directive (Hart, 2021), with M Eliantonio and T Paloniitty.
• Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, with J E Viñuales (OUP, 2019), 1328 pages.
• 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), 2856 pages.

 Journal Special Issues

• Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law – “Regulatory Issues in Property Law”, editorial “Regulation and the Morphology of Property”, 86 pages.
• Climate Policy – “Climate Policy after the 2015 Paris Conference”, with J E Viñuales, J Depledge, and D M Reiner, (2017) Vol 17, Issue 1, 110 pages. 

Book Chapters

• Forthcoming, “Seeking Environmental Information” in Aine Ryall and Gregory Jones
• “Land registration in England and Wales: problems, solutions and missed opportunities” in D Grinlinton and R Thomas, Land Registration and Title Security in the Digital Age (Routledge, 2020), with M Dixon.
• “Value in Comparative Law–3D Cartography and Analytical Description” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, E Lees and J E Viñuales (OUP, 2019), pp.35-56, 22 pages
• “The European Union” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, E Lees and J E Viñuales (OUP, 2019), with M Gehring and F Phillips, pp.149-170, 22 pages.
• “Contaminated Sites” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, E Lees and J E Viñuales (OUP, 2019), pp. 626-646, 21 pages.
• “Adjudication Systems” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, E Lees and J E Viñuales (OUP, 2019), pp. 790-810, 21 pages.
• “Environmental Law and Criminal Law” in Oxford Handbook of Comparative Environmental Law, E Lees and J E Viñuales (OUP, 2019), pp.1119-1138, 20 pages.
• “Guaranteed Title, No Title Guaranteed” in New Perspectives on Land Registration, A Goymour et al (Hart, 2018) pp. 97-116, 20 pages.
• “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) pp. 371-394, 24 pages.
• “Contamination and the Polluter Pays Principle” in Implementing Environmental Law, P Martin & K Kennedy (Edward Elgar, 2015) pp. 118-133, 16 pages. 
• “State Guaranteed Title: the Land Registration Act 2002” in Property Law Perspectives III, D Gruyaert et al (Intersentia, 2015) pp. 117-134, 18 pages.

Articles and Note—Sole Authored

• Forthcoming, “Fearn v Tate Galleries: Privacy and the Law of Nuisance” (2021) Environmental Law Review.
• “The Boundaries in Land Law: Trusts, Estoppel, Validity and Value”, [2020] Conv 99-108.
• “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.
• “Regulation and the Morphology of Property” (2019) Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law (editorial), 82-86, 5 pages.
• “Property in the Anthropocene” (2019) 43 William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review 514-593, 80 pages.
• “End of Waste Status and the Re-establishment of the Definition of Waste Panel” (2018) 20(4) Environmental Law Review 233-239, 7 pages.
• “Liability for Contaminated Land: Powys County Council v Price” (2018) 20(2) Environmental Law Review 39-45, 7 pages.
• “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, 9 pages.
• “Morphological Analysis of Legal Ideology: Locating Interpretive Divergence” (2018) 10 Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law 5-16 (with E Shepherd), 12 pages. 
• “Article 8, Proportionality and Horizontal Effect” (2017) 133 Law Quarterly Review 31-36, 6 pages.
• “Mortgage Express v Lambert: Mere Equities and Overreaching” [2017] Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 71-82, 12 pages.
• “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, 7 pages.
• “Responsibility and Liability for Climate Loss and Damage after Paris” (2017) 17 Climate Policy 59-70, 12 pages
• “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.
• “Powers of the beneficiary of a charge” (2016) 80 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 157-167.
• “The polluter pays principle and the remediation of land” (2016) 8 International Journal of Law in the Built Environment 2-20.
• “Encroachments and schedule 6 LRA 2002: unknotting the tangle” (2015) 79 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 110-122.
• “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.
• “Rectification of the register—prospective or retrospective?” (2015) 78 Modern Law Review 361-371 
• “Registration make-believe and forgery—Swift 1st Ltd v Chief Land Registrar” (2015) 131 Law Quarterly Review 515-519.
• “Indemnity and the Land Registration Act 2002” (2014) 73 Cambridge Law Journal 250-253.
• “Lawrence v Fen Tigers: noise in the Supreme Court” (2014) 78 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 449-460.
• “Localism and environmental law: uneasy bedfellows?” [2014] Journal of Planning and Environmental Law 176-180.
• “The meaning of ‘deposit’: Thames Water v Bromley Magistrates’ Court” (2014) 26 Journal of Environmental Law 1-9.
• “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.
• “Keay v Morris Homes and section 2 Law of Property (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1989” (2013) 77 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 68-74.
• “Richall Holdings v Fitzwilliam: Malory v Cheshire Homes and the LRA 2002” (2013) 76 Modern Law Review 924-934.
• “Title by registration—rectification, indemnity and mistake and the Land Registration Act 2002” (2013) 76 Modern Law Review 62-82.
• “Interpreting the contaminated land regime: should the ‘polluter’ pay?” (2012) 14 Environmental Law Review 98-110.
• “The contaminated land regime—new guidance, and a new philosophy?” (2012) 14 Environmental Law Review 267-278 
• “Pushing the boundaries of Dutton” (2011) 75 Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 74-82 (as Lochery).
• “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 Notes—Co-Authored

• “Morphological analysis of legal ideology: locating interpretive divergence” (2018) 10 Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law 5-16 (with E Shepherd).
• “Interests, powers and mere equities in modern land law” (2017) 37 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 435-460 (with S Cooper).
• “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.