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Manchester Law School is seeking to appoint a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer with academic experience in Land Law to teach Land and Property units in the School’s undergraduate programmes and GDL. The School is interested in appointing colleagues with an

Keele Law School is delighted to host the next Modern Studies in Property Law (MSPL) 2019 One-day Event The event will take place in Keele Hall on Thursday, 11 April 2019. Over the course of the day, a variety of

by Emily Carroll, University of Birmingham, commissioned and produced by Oxford University Press.   ‘When you sit down and map out a subject for the first time that is a work of imagination. You have to make choices about how to bring

by Dr Verona Ní Drisceoil, University of Sussex This blog post provides a brief introduction to the concept, development and implementation of the Virtual Land Law Field Trip Project @Sussex. It also revisits some of the key arguments in favour

by Dr Susan Farran, Northumbria University  At the time of writing the Commonwealth games are in progress on Australia’s Gold Coast, which reminds me that it was rumoured that ‘parkour’ or freerunning (‘an athletic activity in which the participant seeks

by Michael Draper, Swansea University Geoffrey Cheshire published the first edition of Modern Law of Real Property in 1925 before the ‘new era dawned in January 1926’. Writing in the September 1925 preface to the first edition he said: “At

by Dr Emily Walsh, University of Portsmouth Legal education faces a time of change. The inception of the solicitors qualifying exam and the death of the LPC will doubtless impact on curriculum design in law schools. The qualifying law degree does not

by Graham Ferris, Nottingham Trent University Property law generally, and land law in particular, poses a problem for anyone who proposes to teach the subject. The substantive law is fairly complex and not intuitive, and the reasons the law is

by Dr Lisa Whitehouse, University of Hull  As I get older (or perhaps wiser?) the gravitational pull of progress seems to bear more heavily on me. Given I am aware of my wariness of change I try to approach it

by Sandra Clarke, University of Greenwich With the advent of the SQE, which will have a large component of online assessment, it seems a sensible time to examine the benefits and drawbacks of this method. I teach a 30 credit

by Professor Nick Hopkins, Law Commissioner In this contribution I consider how law reform and, particularly, the work of the Law Commission, can be used in teaching land law. After my appointment at the Law Commission, I continued to lecture