Student profiles
William Norcup-Brown
Twitter: http://www.linkedin.com/in/william-n-brown-
Email: w.norcup-brown@liverpool.ac.uk
Website: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/research/postgraduate-research-students/william-n-brown/
Thesis Title
Institution
Supervisors
Dr John Picton
Dr Stephanie Reynolds
Research Summary
William’s PhD project looks at the rights clash between private landowners of privately owned public spaces, and members of the public seeking to access that land for the purposes of peaceful protest. It advocates for adopting the legal conceptual framework of the ‘quasi-public trust’ to uphold the right to peaceful protest on these spaces.
Research Interests
Property law,
freedom of expression,
freedom of assembly
protest,
trespass to land,
property theory
and jurisprudence.
Publications
Conference paper: ‘Protest, private land and the quasi-public trust’ (June 2023) Society of Legal Scholars Conference 2023, Oxford Brookes University.
Conference paper: ‘Protest, private land and the quasi-public trust’ (May 2023) Association of Law, Property and Society Annual Conference, University of Southampton.
Conference paper: ‘Quasi-public land: an Aristotelian perspective on privately owned public spaces’ (September 2022) Society of Legal Scholars Conference 2022, Kings College London.
Conference paper: ‘Quasi-public land: an Aristotelian perspective on privately owned public spaces’ (June 2022) PGR Conference 2022, School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool.
Conference paper: ‘Quasi-public land: an Aristotelian perspective on privately owned public spaces’ (May 2022) Association of Law, Property and Society Annual Conference, Virtual Conference.
Publication: Book review ‘Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy’ by Brian Christopher Jones, LSE Review of Books (Nov 16, 2021)
Publication: Book Review ‘Law and the Precarious Home: Socio Legal Perspectives on the Home in Insecure Times’ edited by Helen Carr, Brendan Edgeworth and Caroline Hunter, LSE Review of Books (Apr 1, 2019)