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Christopher Bevan

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Chris Bevan is Associate Professor of Property Law at Durham Law School, Durham University having previously worked for 6 years at the University of Nottingham. Before entering legal academia, Chris practised as a common law barrister specialising in matters of land, housing and family law. Chris has experience as a Tutor on the BPTC (the barrister professional training course) and maintains strong links with the world of legal practice. Chris graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2007 with degrees in both Modern Languages and Law and, in 2012, was awarded his MA (Cantab.). Chris is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and author of the acclaimed textbook, Land Law (1st Edn, 2018, Oxford University Press; 2nd Edn published March 2020). In 2017, Chris won ‘Lecturer of the Year’ and was awarded the prestigious Lord Dearing Award for outstanding, world-class contribution to enhancing the student experience. In 2018, was nominated to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts. Chris’ research interests are situated on the intersection between land, housing and social welfare law. Chris has published widely on matters of domestic land law, social housing and housing legislation in its broadest sense. Chris’ scholarship has appeared in leading law journals including The Modern Law Review, Law Quarterly Review, The Cambridge Law Journal, The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer and Child and Family Law Quarterly.

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  • PUBLICATIONS

      BEVAN, C., 2019, ‘The Search for Common Intention: The Status of an Executed, Express Declaration of Trust post-Stack and Jones,’ The Law Quarterly Review (October 2019).

       

      BEVAN, C., and DARLINGTON E., 2019, ‘Challenging a TR1 Express Declaration of Trust: Setting the Record Straight.’ Family Law (April, 2019).

       

      BEVAN, C., 2019, ‘Opening Pandora’s box? Recreation pure and simple: easements in the Supreme Court,’ The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 83(1), 44-59.

       

      BEVAN, C., 2018, ‘The Doctrine of Benefit and Burden: Reforming the Law of Covenants and the Numerus Clausus ‘Problem’,’ The Cambridge Law Journal, 77(1), 72-96.

       

      BEVAN, C., and LAURIE, E., 2017, ‘The Housing and Planning Act 2016: Rewarding the Aspiration of Homeownership?’ The Modern Law Review, 80(4), 661-684.

       

      BEVAN, C. and COWAN, D., 2016, ‘Uses of Macro Social Theory: A Social Housing Case Study,’ The Modern Law Review, 79(1), 76–101.

       

      BEVAN, C., 2016, ‘Overriding and Over-extended? Actual Occupation: A Call To Orthodoxy,’ The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, 2016(2), 104-117.

       

      Bevan, C., 2015, ‘Challenging Home as a Concept in Modern Property Law post-Stack and Kernott’ in W. Barr (ed.) Modern Studies In Property Law Vol. 8 (Hart Publishing, Oxford: 2015).

       

      BEVAN, C., 2015, ‘The Damages Dog and its Horrible Bite: Statutory Damages for Unlawful Eviction,' The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, 442-450.

       

      BEVAN, C., 2014, ‘The Localism Act 2011: The Hollow Housing Law Revolution,’ The Modern Law Review, 77(6), 964-982.

       

      BEVAN, C., 2013, ‘Interpreting Statutory Purpose – Lessons from Yemshaw v Hounslow London Borough Council,’ The Modern Law Review; 76(4), 742-756.

       

      BEVAN, C., 2013, ‘Living ‘together’ apart: s.176 of the Housing Act 1996,’ The Conveyancer & Property Lawyer, 2013 (4), 334-344.

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