Biography

Alison Clarke, Professor in Law in the School of Law, is a Property Lawyer with a particular interest in the cultural and economic effects of different ownership regimes governing natural resources. 

Before joining the School of Law in 2008, Alison was a Reader in Laws in the Faculty of Laws at University College London, and she has also held Lectureships at King's College London and the School of Law at the University of Southampton. She started her legal career specialising in Commercial Property as a Solicitor in a City of London firm of solicitors, and also spent two years at the Law Commission (seconded to work on the reform of Land Mortgages) and three months as a Visiting Professor at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo (2005).

Alison is currently working on a research project on Insolvency and Social Exclusion with Robert Jago in the School of Law, and on Water Rights as a member of the School of Law's Environmental Regulatory Research Group and the University's Surrey Water Research Group.

Publications

Teaching

PhD Supervision

Alison Clarke welcomes approaches from prospective doctoral students