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Susan Bright has been teaching in Oxford since 1992. She joined New College as a Fellow in 2004, having previously been a Fellow at St Hilda's College. She qualified as a solicitor in London, practising in the field of commercial property. At Oxford, she teaches land law, contract law, commercial leases, and housing and human rights.
Her writing is mainly in the field of real property law, especially landlord and tenant law. Her current research interests focus around the home in land law and ‘green leases’. In relation to the home, her work explores the legal models that are used for delivering affordable home ownership, and the considerations that come into play during the legal process when a home is lost. She is currently involved in an empircal project exploring the extent to which non-financial considerations are taken into account in possession cases. Sue’s green lease work is focussed on the commercial property sector and considers the hurdles and opportunities that leasing patterns present to improving the energy performance of the commercial built environment. A selection of Sue's papers can be accessed on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) at: http://ssrn.com/author=529157 Sue has been appointed to sit as a part time Lawyer Chair of the Residential Property Tribunal Service. She is also a Fellow of the South African Research Chair in Property Law and a Visiting Professorial Fellow at the University of New South Wales.
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2012
C Axon and others, 'Building Communities: Reducing Energy Use in Tenanted Commercial Property' (2012) 40 Building Research and Information 461 [...]
DOI: 10.1080/09613218.2012.680701
Reducing energy use in tenanted commercial property requires greater understanding of ’buildings as communities’. Tenanted commercial properties represent: (1) the divergent communities that share specific buildings and (2) the organisational communities represented by multi-site landlord and tenant companies. In any particular tenanted space the opportunity for environmental change is mediated (hindered or enabled) through the lease. This discussion draws on theoretical and practical understandings of (i) the socio-legal relationships of landlords, tenants and their advisors; (ii) the real performance of engineering building services strategies to improve energy efficiency; (iii) how organisational cultures affect the ability of the sector to engage with energy efficiency strategies; and (iv) the financial and economic basis of the relationship between owners and occupiers. The transformational complexity stems from: (i) the variety of commercial building stock; (ii) the number of stakeholders (solicitors, investors, developers, agents, owners, tenants and facilities managers); (iii) the fragmentation within the communities of practice; and (iv) leasehold structures and language. An agenda is proposed for truly interdisciplinary research that brings together both the physical and social sciences of energy use in buildings so that technological solutions are made effective by an understanding of the way that buildings are used and communities behave.
ISBN: 0182-3329
S J Bright, 'Green Commercial Leases: Bringing Together Practice and Theory' (2012) Property Law Review 1 [...]
This is a note about a symposium held in Sydney involving industry leaders and academics in order to explore better (green) leasing practices.
Craig Roussac and others, 'Improving environmental performance through innovative commercial leasing: An Australian case study' (2012) 4 International Journal of Law in the Built Environment 6 [...]
DOI: 10.1108/17561451211211714
The paper explains how difficult it is within the structure and content of conventional leases to reduce the environmental impact of the tenanted commercial built environment. It explores the interplay between the content and structure of commercial leases and the behaviour of building owners, managers, tenants and occupants, illustrated through the experiences of a large Australian-based commercial office building owner/operator.
2011
S J Bright and J Bettle, 'Ashby v Kilduff – a modern day morality tale?' (2011) 41 Family Law 168
S J Bright and Nick Hopkins, 'Home, Meaning and Identity: Learning from the English Model of Shared Ownership:' (2011) 28 Housing, Theory and Society 377 [...]
DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2010.527119
This article explores the problematic nature of the label ‘home ownership’ through a case study of the English model of shared ownership, one of the methods used by the UK government to make home ownership affordable. Adopting a legal and socio-legal analysis, the article considers whether shared ownership is capable of fulfilling the aspirations households have for home ownership. To do so, the article considers the financial and non-financial meanings attached to home ownership and suggests that the core expectation lies in ownership of the value. The article demonstrates that the rights and responsibilities of shared owners are different in many respects from those of traditional home owners, including their rights as regards ownership of the value. By examining home ownership through the lens of shared ownership the article draws out lessons of broader significance to housing studies. In particular, it is argued that shared ownership shows the limitations of two dichotomies commonly used in housing discourse: that between private and social housing; and the classification of tenure between owner-occupiers and renters. The article concludes that a much more nuanced way of referring to home ownership is required, and that there is a need for a change of expectations amongst consumers as to what sharing ownership means.
ISBN: 1403-6096
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