Our friends at Queen's University in Belfast have announced that they have extended the deadline to register for this year's ALPS (Association for Law, Property, and Society) conference until March 1, 2016. Registration should be completed online through the conference website.
The conference organizers are also pleased to announce that the keynote speaker for ALPS 2016 will be Professor David Cowan, University of Bristol, UK.
Professor Cowan's research is mostly socio-legal, and focuses on social theory, housing and property system(s). His books include Homelessness: The (In)Appropriate Applicant (Dartmouth, 1997), Housing Law and Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2011), as well as co-authored books, The Appeal of Internal Review (Hart, 2003), Regulating Social Housing: Governing Decline (Glasshouse, 2005), and Great Debates in Property Law (Palgrave MacMillian, 2016).
Professor Cowan's talk will focus on marginal ownership and tenurial differentiation. He will draw on data derived from a recent Leverhulme Trust funded project (on which he worked with Helen Carr and Alison Wallace), which focused on a low cost home ownership intervention known as "shared ownership", to explore crisis moments in marginal "home ownership" initiatives: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/law/research/shared-ownership/.