PART I
MODERN CHALLENGES IN PROPERTY LAW
1. Technology in Property: Putting You All on Notice
Dame Elizabeth Gloster
2. Restating the Architecture of Property
Henry E Smith
3. ‘Judges are Human, Not Many People Know That’: The Travails of the First Instance Judge
Her Honour Judge Karen Walden-Smith

PART II
PROPERTY: DEFINITION AND PROTECTION
4. Defending Property: Self-help Remedies, the Use of Force, and the Concept of a Property Right
Robin Hickey
5. The Essence of Private Nuisance
Donal Nolan
6. Redrawing the Law’s Definition of Property in the Light of Contemporary Use of Urban Surfaces
Sue Farran
7. Corporate Shares as Shares
Larissa Katz
8. The Proprietary Nature of Title-based Financing Interests
Magda Raczynska

PART III
LAND: RELATIONSHIPS AND REGULATION
9. Remedies for Breaches of Rights to Light: Averting a Tragedy of the Anticommons
Craig Rotherham
10. Re-evaluating Recreational Easements – New Norms for the Twenty-First Century?
Susan Pascoe
11. The Recognition of Covenants in Gross in New Zealand: A Dangerous Advancement?
Ben France-Hudson
12. Security of Tenure in the Private Rented Sector in England: Balancing the Competing Property Rights of Landlords and Tenants
Emily Walsh
13. Long Leases and Affordable Housing: A Comparative Analysis of French and English Law
Fabiana Bettini
14. How is the Fit? The Regulation of Mortgages as Enduring Property Relationships
Sarah Nield

PART IV
LAND REGISTRATION: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
15. Updating Land Registration Law and Practice: Some Lessons from China
Lu Xu
16. Death, Lies, and Land Registration
Siôn Hudson and Brian Sloan

PART V
TRUSTS: NATURE AND OPERATION
17. The Paradox of the Equitable Proprietary Claim
Sinéad Agnew and Ben McFarlane
18. ‘So How Should I Presume?’: Loan, Resulting Trust, or Discharge of a Prior Obligation
John Mee
19. Trusts and Legal Transplants: Lessons from Japan
James C Fisher

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The books in this series contain a collection of peer reviewed papers presented at the biennial Modern Studies in Property Law conferences. The conference and its published proceedings have become an established forum for property lawyers from around the world to showcase current research in the discipline.