Research output per year
Research output per year
Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am interested in hearing from potential PhD students in legal history and/or property law.
I joined Manchester in September 2021, having previously taught at the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary, University of London. I read History as an undergraduate at the University of Lancaster before studying Law at the University of Edinburgh and Magdalene College, Cambridge.
I am a private lawyer with interests in legal history, equity, trusts and land. I am primarily interested in the doctrinal development of English property law up to the mid-sixteenth century, and in the legal history of the North of England. I am currently working on projects on the historical development of trusts and on the legal history of the County Palatine of Lancaster.
At Manchester, I am LLB Law with Joint Honours Programme Director, Co-Director of the Centre for Law and Business, and am the elected representative on the Law Leadership Team.
BA (Hons) (Lancaster); Dip. Law; LLM (Edin.); PhD (Cantab.); Barrister (non-practising) (Middle Temple).
LAWS20250: Land Law
LAWS31301: Equity and Trusts
LAWS30702: Advanced Property and Trusts
Current PhD Students:
Dilara Tunç, 'Relational Contract: Where Theory Meets Practice' (with Dr Michael Galanis and Prof Geraint Howells)
Diego Montecino Diaz, 'Trusts in Latin America' (With Dr John Picton and Dr Ricardo Buendia)
Legal History
Equity
Trusts
Land
2022: Sir Anthony Hart Doctoral Paper Prize (Irish Legal History Society),
2017: Milsom Studentship in English Legal History (Selden Society)
2014: 3-4 South Square Chambers Scholarship (Middle Temple)
2014: The Dean's Award (Northumbria Law School)
2013: The Tercentenary Award for Excellence (Edinburgh Law School)
External Examiner, Bangor University
Sept 2025 → …
Co-Convenor Legal History Stream, Society for Legal Scholars
Sept 2025 → …
External Examiner, Swansea University
Jan 2025 → …
Editorial Board, Comparative Legal History
2025 → …
Co-Director, Northen Legal History Group
2022 → …
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter