Personal Property — Overview
Discussion Groups
These self-sustaining groups are an essential part of the life of our graduate school. They are organised in some cases by graduate students and in others by Faculty members and meet regularly during term, typically over a sandwich lunch, when one of the group presents work in progress or introduces a discussion of a particular issue or new case. They may also encompass guest speakers from the faculty and beyond.
Publications
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Journal Articles
S Green, 'Theft and Conversion' (2012) Law Quarterly Review 564 [...]
An examination of the difference between the criminal and civil law treatment of interferences with personal property, with particular attention paid to intangibles and money. The thesis essentially concludes that the criminal law's approach is both more coherent and appropriate to modern forms of property.
S Green, 'To Have and to Hold? Conversion and Intangible Property' (2008) 71 Modern Law Review 114
S Green, 'Can a Digitized Product be the Subject of Conversion?' [2006] LMCLQ 568
S Gardner, 'Rethinking Family Property' (1993) 109 Law Quarterly Review 263 [...]
Cited in Van Laethem v Brooker [2005] EWHC 1478 (Ch), [67] (Mr Justice Lawrence Collins)
Books
S Green and John Randall QC, The Tort of Conversion (shortlisted for the Inner Temple Book Prize 2011) (Hart 2009)
Chapters
W J Swadling, 'Property' in Birks (ed), English Private Law (OUP 2000)
Case Notes
J S Getzler, 'Unclean Hands and the Doctrine of Jus Tertii' (2001) 117 Law Quarterly Review 565 [...]
The nature of titles to personal property as ranked rights to possession is analysed in relation to a case where the legal basis for police confiscation ended, so leaving a presumed thief with a superior title. The illegality or viciousness of the earlier possession was not a bar to title.
ISBN: 0023-933X
Courses
The courses we offer in this field are:
Undergraduate
FHS - Final Year (Phase III)
The degree is awarded on the basis of nine final examinations at the end of the three-year course (or four years in the case of Law with Law Studies in Europe) and (for students who began the course in October 2011 or later) an essay in Jurisprudence written over the summer vacation at the end of the second year. Note: the Jurisprudence exam at the end of the third year is correspondingly shorter. This phase of the Final Honour School includes the first and second term of the final year; the Final Examinations are taken in the third term of the final year.
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The objective of this course is to provide students with an overview of the law of personal property, focusing in particular on underlying concepts and subjecting those concepts to a detailed, critical examination. The course aims to broaden students’ knowledge by introducing them to fundamental ideas which the FHS compulsory subjects do not cover: such as the role of the tort of conversion in protecting interests in property; and the means by which gifts of interests in property can be made. The course further aims to deepen students’ understanding of important concepts which feature in the core subjects of Land Law and Trusts: students will be re-introduced to and, more importantly, invited to re-examine concepts such as the nature of ownership and the need for security of transactions.This special subject may not be taken by any student who is also taking the standard subject Principles of Commercial Law.
i) Introductory Seminar/Lecture: 1 x 2hr session
ii) Seminars: 7 x 2hr sessions
iii) Tutorials: 4 x 1hr sessions
These sessions will be spread over MT and HT.
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People
Personal Property teaching is organized by a Subject Group convened by:
Simon Douglas: CUF Lecturer
in conjunction with:
Roger Smith: CUF Lecturer
William Swadling: Reader in Property Law
Also working in this field, but not involved in its teaching programme:
Sarah Green: CUF Lecturer
Emily Hudson: CDF in IP Law
