Modern Studies in Property Law - Volume 4

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

• I - Keynote Address1. Reforming Housing Law: A Progress ReportMartin PartingtonII - Law and Equity2. Equitable Co-ownership: Proprietary Rights in Name Only?Martin Dixon3. Why is the Law of Undue Influence so Hard to Understand and Apply?Graham Ferris4. The Lie of the Land: Mortgage Law as Legal FictionGary Watt5. Curbing the Enthusiasm of FindersRobin Hickey6. Leases: Rethinking Possession against Vulnerable GroupsWarren Barr7. Reconciling Property Law and Social Security Law: Same Concepts, Different Meanings?Nicholas Hopkins and Emma LaurieIII - Possession of Land8. The Acquisition of Rights in Property by the Effluxion of TimeAmy Goymour9. An Adjudication Rule for Encroachment Disputes: Adverse Possession or a Building Encroachment Statute?Pamela O’Connor10. de Soto Discovers the Prairies:Of Squatters and the Canadian WestBruce Ziff and Sean WardIV - Property, Empire and Indigenous Title11. Land Law and the Making of the British EmpirePatrick McAuslan12. Translating Native Title to Individual ‘Title’ in Australia: Are Real Property Forms and Indigenous Interests Reconcilable?Lee Godden and Maureen Tehan13. Individual Title versus Collective Title in Australia: Reflections on the North American and New Zealand Experiences of Indigenous Title to LandM A Stephenson