Professor in Law, Macquarie University
Cathy Sherry is a Professor at Macquarie Law School and an executive member of Smart Green Cities and the Centre for Environmental Law. She teaches and researches property law, specialising in high rise and master planned communities. Her research explores the effect of legal form on social relations and communities, and has been widely cited by courts, government and in academic literature. She is the author of 'Strata Title Property Rights: Private governance of multi-owned communities' (Routledge, 2017). She regularly advises governments in Australia and overseas on their laws relating to high density development. Professor Sherry has a particular interest in urban agriculture as a method of greening cities.
If you squat in a vacant property, does the law give you the house for free? Well, sort of
Apr 12, 2024 03:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Nothing excites law students like the idea of a free house. Or alternatively, enrages them. It depends on their politics. As a result, academics condemned to teaching property law find it hard to resist the doctrine of...
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