Researcher

My Expertise

Property law

Critical property theory

Public property and public space

Legal geography

Keywords

Fields of Research (FoR)

Property law (excl. intellectual property law), Law and society and socio-legal research, Legal theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation

Biography

John Page is a Professor in the School of Private and Commercial Law in the Faculty of Law & Justice at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

John is a scholar of critical property law and theory. His research explores the diversity of property in the common law tradition, and how property intersects with public space, the materiality of place, and the propertied design of lived landscapes. His PhD focused on the concept of property...view more

John Page is a Professor in the School of Private and Commercial Law in the Faculty of Law & Justice at the University of New South Wales, Sydney.

John is a scholar of critical property law and theory. His research explores the diversity of property in the common law tradition, and how property intersects with public space, the materiality of place, and the propertied design of lived landscapes. His PhD focused on the concept of property diversity, and its implications for community, obligation, and sustainable urban design. It was published as the monograph Property Diversity and Its Implications (Routledge, 2017).

His second monograph, Public Property, Law and Society (Routledge, 2021) studies the under-surveyed, under-theorized jurisprudence of the public estate, while his latest, The Lawful Forest: A Critical History of Property, Protest and Spatial Justice (with C Clark, Edinburgh University Press, 2022), chronicles the legal geographies of spatial justice across time and space. The Lawful Forest was the winner of the 2023 Penny Pether Prize for its significant contribution to law, literature and humanities scholarship in Australasia.

John is also a co-author of one of Australia's leading textbooks on property law, Sackville & Neave Australian Property Law (Lexis Nexis12th edition 2025). 

 


My Qualifications

BA (UQ)

LLB (Hons.) (UQ)

LLM (UQ)

Grad. Dip. Higher Ed. (UNE)

PhD (UQ)


My Awards

Winner, Penny Pether Prize 2023 for The Lawful Forest  for its significant contribution to law, literature and humanities scholarship in Australasia.

https://www.lawlithum.org/hall-of-fame/ 

 


My Research Activities

John is a Managing Editor of Legalities: The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Law and Society published by Edinburgh University Press https://www.euppublishing.com/journal/legal, and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Law, Property and Society, the official journal of the international Association of Law, Property & Society (ALPS) https://alps-law.org/jlps 


My Research Supervision


Supervision keywords


Areas of supervision

Property law

Critical property theory

Legal geography

Law and society


My Teaching

LAWS2382/JURD7283 Land Law

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Location

Room 351
The Law Building, Kensington Campus
UNSW Sydney NSW 2052 Australia
(Access via Gate 2 off High Street)

Contact

0410 445 282