Staff Profiles

Professor Lorna Fox O'Mahony - all publications

Books: authored

• Cowan, David, Fox O'Mahony, Lorna & Cobb, Neil (2012). Great Debates in Property Law. Palgrave Macmillan.
• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. (2012). Home Equity and Ageing Owners: Between Risk and Regulation. Hart Publishing.
• Fox, Lorna. (2007). Conceptualising Home: Theories, Laws and Policies. Oxford.: Hart Publishing.

Books: edited

• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna., & Sweeney, James. (2011). The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession. Ashgate Publishing.
• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. , Devenney, James. , & Kenny, Mel. (2010). Unconscionability in European Private Financial Transactions: Protecting the Vulnerable. Cambridge University Press.

Books: reviews

• Fox, Lorna. (2002). Book review of 'Charity law in Northern Ireland' by K.O. Halloran and R. Cormacain, Dublin RoundHall Sweet & Maxwell, 2001. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 53: 347-350.

Edited sources

• Smith, SJ. Elsinga, M. Fox O’Mahony, Lorna., Ong, SE. & Wachter, S. (2011). The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Elsevier.

Essays in edited volumes

• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. & Sweeney, James. (2011). Rethinking Responses to Displacement and Dispossession. In The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession. Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. & Sweeney, James. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing. 211-226.
• Sweeney, James. & Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. (2011). The Displacement and Dispossession of Asylum Seekers: Recalibrating the Legal Perspective. In The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession. Sweeney, James. & Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing. 101-132.
• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. & Sweeney, James. (2011). The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession. In The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession. Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. & Sweeney, James. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing. 1-12.
• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. (2011). The Meanings of Home. In The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home. Smith, SJ. Elsinga, M., Fox O’Mahony, Lorna., Ong, SE. & Wachter, S. Elsevier.
• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. , Devenney, James. & Kenny, Mel. (2010). Conceptualising Unconscionability. In Unconscionability in European Private Financial Transactions: Protecting the Vulnerable. Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. , Devenney, James. & Kenny, Mel. New York: Cambridge University Press.
• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. , Devenney, James. & Kenny, Mel. (2010). England and Wales. In Regulating Unfair Banking Practices in Europe: the Case of Personal Suretyships. Ciacchi, A Colombi. & Weatherill, S. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 141-178.
• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. (2010). Eviction and the Public Interest: the Right to Respect for Home in English Law. In The Public Nature of Private Property. Diamond, Michael. & Paul Malloy, Robin. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing.
• Kenny, Mel. Devenney, James. & Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. (2010). Re-considering unconscionability in Europe: in the kaleidoscope of private and public law. In Unconscionability in European Private Financial Transactions: Protecting the Vulnerable. Kenny, Mel. Devenney, James. & Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. Cambridge Cambridge University Press. 377-399.
• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. (2009). Homeownership, Debt and Default: The Affective Value of Home and the Challenge of Affordability. In Affordable Housing and Public/Private Partnerships. Davidson, N. & Paul Malloy, Robin. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. 169-205.
• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. & Devenney, James. (2009). The Elderly, Their Homes and the Unconscionable Bargain Doctrine. In Modern Studies in Property Law. Dixon, Martin. Oxford: Hart Publishing. 5: 265-288.
• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. (2008). ‘Repossessing “Home” A Re-Analysis of Gender, Homeownership and Debtor Default for Feminist Legal Theory’. In 'Women and the Law'. Thomson/West.

Journal papers: academic

• Fox O'Mahony & Lorna (2011). Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed: Land Law Reform in Northern Ireland. Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 75(5): 355-378.
• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. & Sweeney, James. (2010). The Exclusion of (Failed) Asylum Seekers from Housing and Home: Towards an Oppositional Discourse. Journal of Law and Society 37(2): 285-314.
• Fox, Lorna (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.
• Devenney, James , Fox, Lorna & Kenny, Mel (2008). Standing surety in England and Wales: the sphinx of procedural protection. Lloyd’s Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 513-535.
• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. & Cobb, Neil. (2008). Taxonomies of Squatting: Unlawful Occupation in a New Legal Order. Modern Law Review 71(6): 878-911.
• Fox O’Mahony, Lorna. & Devenney, James. (2008). Undue Influence, the Elderly and Equity Release Schemes. Elder Law Review Article 8.
• Cobb, Neil. & Fox, Lorna. (2007). Living outside the system: the (im)morality of urban squatting after the Land Registration Act 2002. Legal Studies 27(2): 236-260.
• Fox, Lorna. (2005). Creditors and the concept of 'family home': a functional analysis. Legal Studies 25(2): 201-227.
• Fox, Lorna. (2005). Property Rights of Cohabitees: The Limits of Legislative Reform. Irish Journal of Family Law 2-9.
• Fox, Lorna. (2005). The Idea of Home in Law. Home Cultures 2(1): 25-49.
• Fox, Lorna. (2003). Reforming Family Property: Comparisons, Compromises and Common Dimensions. Child and Family Law Quarterly 15(1): 1-20.
• Fox, Lorna. (2002). Creditors and the Family Home: Three Perspectives on Family Property Policy. Irish Journal of Family Law 3-8.
• Fox, Lorna. (2002). Family Homes, Conveyancing and Pre-Contract Inquiries: Pictures from these Islands. Conveyancing and Property Law Journal 7(1): 6-16.
• Fox, Lorna. (2002). The Meaning of Home: A Chimerical Concept or a Legal Challenge?. Journal of Law and Society 29(4): 580-610.
• Fox, Lorna. (2001). Co-ownership of Matrimonial Property: Radical Proposals for Reform. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 52: 20-53.
• Fox, Lorna. (2000). Living in a policy state: from trust for sale to trust of land. Liverpool Law Review 22(1): 59-88.
• Fox, Lorna. (1999). Implied Reservation of Easements. Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 63(July/August.): 353-363.
• Fox, Lorna. (1999). Receipt of Rent and Waiver of Leasehold Covenants: An Equitable Approach?. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly 50(1): 140-152.
• Fox, Lorna. (1998). Co-owners, not co-owners: legislative and judicial policy in relation to Charging Orders and Co-ownership. Cambrian Law Review 29(1): 9-21.