All Outputs (31)

The meanings of home (2012)
Book Chapter
Fox O’Mahony, L. (2012). The meanings of home. In S. Smith, M. Elsinga, L. Fox O’Mahony, S. Ong, & S. Wachter (Eds.), International encyclopedia of housing and home (231-239). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-08-047163-1.00367-2

The meaning of ‘home’ has attracted considerable critical attention in recent years. The study of home has yielded an extensive literature and several leading journals – for example, Social Research (1991); New Formations (1992); Women’s Studies Inte... Read More about The meanings of home.

Home Equity and Ageing Owners: Between Risk and Regulation (2012)
Book
Fox O’Mahony, L. (2012). Home Equity and Ageing Owners: Between Risk and Regulation. Hart Publishing

The growing use of housing equity to support a range of activities and needs raises complex issues, particularly for older owners. In an environment in which older owners are pushed towards housing equity transactions to meet income and welfare costs... Read More about Home Equity and Ageing Owners: Between Risk and Regulation.

The Displacement and Dispossession of Asylum Seekers: Recalibrating the Legal Perspective (2011)
Book Chapter
Sweeney, J., & Fox O’Mahony, L. (2011). The Displacement and Dispossession of Asylum Seekers: Recalibrating the Legal Perspective. In J. Sweeney, & L. Fox O’Mahony (Eds.), The idea of home in law : displacement and dispossession (101-132). Ashgate Publishing

Rethinking Responses to Displacement and Dispossession (2011)
Book Chapter
Fox O’Mahony, L., & Sweeney, J. (2011). Rethinking Responses to Displacement and Dispossession. In L. Fox O’Mahony, & J. Sweeney (Eds.), The idea of home in law : displacement and dispossession (211-226). Ashgate Publishing

The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession (2011)
Book Chapter
Fox O’Mahony, L., & Sweeney, J. (2011). The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession. In L. Fox O’Mahony, & J. Sweeney (Eds.), The idea of home in law : displacement and dispossession (1-12). Ashgate Publishing

Eviction and the Public Interest: the Right to Respect for Home in English Law (2010)
Book Chapter
Fox O’Mahony, L. (2010). Eviction and the Public Interest: the Right to Respect for Home in English Law. In M. Diamond, & R. Paul Malloy (Eds.), The public nature of private property. Ashgate Publishing

England and Wales (2010)
Book Chapter
Fox O’Mahony, L., Devenney, J., & Kenny, M. (2010). England and Wales. In A. C. Ciacchi, & S. Weatherill (Eds.), Regulating unfair banking practices in Europe : the case of personal suretyships (141-178). Oxford University Press

The Exclusion of (Failed) Asylum Seekers from Housing and Home: Towards an Oppositional Discourse (2010)
Journal Article
Fox O’Mahony, L., & Sweeney, J. (2010). The Exclusion of (Failed) Asylum Seekers from Housing and Home: Towards an Oppositional Discourse. Journal of Law and Society, 37(2), 285-314. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-6478.2010.00505.x

'Housing'– the practical provision of a roof over one's head – is experienced by users as 'home'– broadly described as housing plus the experiential elements of dwelling. Conversely, being without housing, commonly described as 'homelessness', is exp... Read More about The Exclusion of (Failed) Asylum Seekers from Housing and Home: Towards an Oppositional Discourse.

Re-considering unconscionability in Europe: in the kaleidoscope of private and public law (2010)
Book Chapter
Kenny, M., Devenney, J., & Fox O’Mahony, L. (2010). Re-considering unconscionability in Europe: in the kaleidoscope of private and public law. In M. Kenny, J. Devenney, & L. Fox O’Mahony (Eds.), Unconscionability in European private financial transactions : protecting the vulnerable (377-399). Cambridge University Press

The Elderly, Their Homes and the Unconscionable Bargain Doctrine (2009)
Book Chapter
Fox O’Mahony, L., & Devenney, J. (2009). The Elderly, Their Homes and the Unconscionable Bargain Doctrine. In M. Dixon (Ed.), Modern studies in property law (265-288). Hart Publishing

Homeownership, Debt and Default: The Affective Value of Home and the Challenge of Affordability (2009)
Book Chapter
Fox O’Mahony, L. (2009). Homeownership, Debt and Default: The Affective Value of Home and the Challenge of Affordability. In N. Davidson, & R. Paul Malloy (Eds.), Affordable housing and public/private partnerships (169-205). Ashgate Publishing

Undue Influence, the Elderly and Equity Release Schemes (2008)
Journal Article
Fox O’Mahony, L., & Devenney, J. (online). Undue Influence, the Elderly and Equity Release Schemes. Elder law review,

Standing surety in England and Wales: the sphinx of procedural protection (2008)
Journal Article
Devenney*, J., Fox, L., & Kenny, M. (online). Standing surety in England and Wales: the sphinx of procedural protection. Lloyd's maritime and commercial law quarterly, 513-535

Discusses what legal protection is available for non-professional sureties who guarantee the borrowing of family members or friends. Reviews case law on undue influence, unconscionability and creditors' duty to ensure that sureties have independent l... Read More about Standing surety in England and Wales: the sphinx of procedural protection.

Taxonomies of squatting: unlawful occupation in a new legal order (2008)
Journal Article
Fox O’Mahony, L., & Cobb, N. (2008). Taxonomies of squatting: unlawful occupation in a new legal order. Modern Law Review, 71(6), 878-911. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.2008.00721.x

Legal responses to the activity of 'squatting' include criminal justice, civil actions, property law and housing policy. Some legal analyses of unauthorised occupation focus on the act of squatting, others on the squatter's claim to title through adv... Read More about Taxonomies of squatting: unlawful occupation in a new legal order.

Re-possessing "Home": A re-analysis of Gender, Home Ownership and Debtor Default for Feminist Legal Theory (2008)
Journal Article
Fox, L. (2008). Re-possessing "Home": A re-analysis of Gender, Home Ownership and Debtor Default for Feminist Legal Theory. William & Mary journal of women and the law, 14(3), Article 2

The current credit crisis has brought the subject of subprime and other problematic debt to the forefront of many agendas - both political and personal. This article explores some of the underlying legal, theoretical, economic, and phenomenological i... Read More about Re-possessing "Home": A re-analysis of Gender, Home Ownership and Debtor Default for Feminist Legal Theory.

‘Repossessing “Home”: A Re-Analysis of Gender, Homeownership and Debtor Default for Feminist Legal Theory’ (2008)
Book Chapter
Fox O’Mahony, L. (2008). ‘Repossessing “Home”: A Re-Analysis of Gender, Homeownership and Debtor Default for Feminist Legal Theory’. In Women and the law (423-494). Thomson West

Living outside the system: the (im)morality of urban squatting after the Land Registration Act 2002 (2007)
Journal Article
Cobb, N., & Fox, L. (2007). Living outside the system: the (im)morality of urban squatting after the Land Registration Act 2002. Legal Studies, 27(2), 236-260. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121x.2007.00046.x

The Land Registration Act 2002 (LRA 2002) has effectively curtailed the law permitting the acquisition of title through adverse possession in relation to most types of adverse possessor, including the paradigmatic urban squatter. While the traditiona... Read More about Living outside the system: the (im)morality of urban squatting after the Land Registration Act 2002.

Conceptualising Home: Theories, Laws and Policies (2006)
Book
Fox, L. (2006). Conceptualising Home: Theories, Laws and Policies. Hart Publishing

It is difficult to overstate the everyday importance of home in law. Home provides the backdrop for our lives, and is often the scene or the subject of legal disputes. In addition, in recent decades there has been growing academic interest in the mea... Read More about Conceptualising Home: Theories, Laws and Policies.

Property Rights of Cohabitees: The Limits of Legislative Reform (2005)
Journal Article
Fox, L. (online). Property Rights of Cohabitees: The Limits of Legislative Reform. Irish journal of family law, 2-9

Creditors and the concept of 'family home': a functional analysis (2005)
Journal Article
Fox, L. (2005). Creditors and the concept of 'family home': a functional analysis. Legal Studies, 25(2), 201-227. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-121x.2005.tb00613.x

The concept of home has attracted considerable critical attention in recent decades across a broad range of social science disciplines. Analysis of 'home meanings' provides important evidence of the values which people attach to property that they oc... Read More about Creditors and the concept of 'family home': a functional analysis.