Lorna Fox O’Mahony writes legal scholarship about property, home, housing insecurity and the meanings attached to ownership and occupation. Conceptualising Home examines how law treats a dwelling not only as an asset but as a place carrying social and emotional significance. Home Equity and Ageing Owners looks at later-life ownership and financial risk, while Great Debates in Land Law, with David Cowan and Neil Cobb, introduces students to contested questions around mortgages, squatting, leases and rights to the home. Her work is interdisciplinary and critical rather than a simple statement of legal rules. Property law, housing and homelessness provide the clearest route through Fox O’Mahony’s work, especially where the legal meaning of home conflicts with financial or ownership interests. Read more Less
