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Details for Professor David Cowan
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor David Cowan |
| Job title | Professor of Law and Policy |
| Department | University of Bristol Law School University of Bristol |
| Contact details | This expert can be contacted via the University of Bristol Public Relations
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| Qualifications | LL.B.(Soton) |
| Professional details | |
| Membership of professional bodies | I was Vice-Chair of the Socio-Legal Studies Association from 2001-2003, and a member of the Civil Justice Council's Housing and Land Sub-Committee from 2000-2004. I am a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Law and Society, Policy and Politics, and I am currently an editor of Social and Legal Studies. |
| Keywords | homelessness housing law social housing private rented sector judging human rights |
| Areas of expertise | My research is mostly socio-legal, and focuses on social theory and the housing system(s). My books include Homelessness: The (In)Appropriate Applicant (Dartmouth, 1997), Housing Law and Policy (MacMillan, 1999), as well as co-authored books, The Appeal of Internal Review (Hart, 2003), Regulating Social Housing: Governing Decline (Glasshouse, 2005) and Regulating Renting: Governing the Private Rented Sector (Routledge, 2007). I have conducted and managed research funded by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Nuffield Foundation, and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. I am a Visiting Academic Consultant at the Law Commission, 2005-2007, working on projects concerning housing adjudication and compliance. |