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Dr Heather Conway

Senior Lecturer

Contact details
Email address h.conway@qub.ac.uk
Telephone Direct Line (+44) 028 9097 3868
Room 27.201, 27 University Square

Degrees
LLB, Queen's University Belfast
PhD, Queen's University Belfast

Biography
Heather Conway graduated in law from Queen's University Belfast in 1995. She completed her PhD thesis in 1998, was appointed to a lectureship at Queen's University in the same year, and became a senior lecturer in 2005. Heather's main teaching and research interests lie in the areas of property and land law, especially comparative Commonwealth property law. She has written a number of articles on aspects of co-ownership and has published a leading monograph in this area- Co-Ownership of Land: Partition Actions and Remedies (2nd edn, 2012). Heather has been a visiting scholar at Queen's University, Kingston as part of the 'Gender, Sexuality and the Family' International Exchange Programme. She has also spent time as a visiting scholar at Dalhousie University, Halifax and McGill University, Montreal as well as Fordham Law School, New York, and will be undertaking research at the University of New South Wales, Sydney later this year. Her other  key research interest is the law governing the fate of dead bodies, especially in the context of property rights in dead bodies, burial disputes, and conflicts involving the use and disposal of human remains. Heather is a former member of the Law Reform Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland, and a former current Director of Research for the Common and Comparative Law cluster in the School of Law.

Teaching

Undergraduate

  • Land Law
  • Comparative Property Law

 

Research

Property Law, especially Comparative Commonwealth; Legal Regulation of Property Rights in the Family Home; Dead Bodies and the Law.

Selected Publications

“Burial Instructions and the Governance of Death” (2012) 12 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 59-95

“The Honours of Hades: Death, Emotion and the Law of Burial Disputes” (with John Stannard) (2011) 34(3) University of New South Wales Law Journal 860-897

“‘Leaving Nothing to Chance?’: Joint Tenancies, The ‘Right’ of Survivorship, and Unilateral Severance” (2008) Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 45

Co-Ownership of Land: Partition Actions and Remedies (2000) Butterworths (Bloomsbury, 2nd edn, 2012)

“Testamentary Conditions in Restraint of Religion in the Twenty-First Century: An Anglo-Canadian Perspective” (with Sheena Grattan) (2005) 50 McGill Law Journal 511

“‘No Place Like Home': The Search for a Legal Framework for the Family Home in Canada and Britain ” (with Philip Girard) (2005) 30 Queen's Law Journal 715

“The Dead, the Law and the Politics of the Past” (with Kieran McEvoy) (2004) 31 Journal of Law and Society 539

"Dead, But Not Buried: Bodies, Burial & Family Conflict" (2003) 23 Legal Studies 423

Administration

  • Director of the Common and Comparative Law Research Cluster 2008 - 2011
  • Examinations Officer 2006-2008
  • Adviser of Studies to 2nd Year LLB Students 2005-2006
  • Member of the Northern Ireland Council of Legal Education 2005-present
  • Co-Ordinator for External Affairs 2000-2005
  • Faculty representative on Academic Council 2002-2005