Academic publications

Landscape, Law and Justice
(in press)

Michael Jones, Amy Strecker, Gunhild Setten and Don Mitchell (eds), Landscape, Law and Justice - 20 Years. Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien (KVHAA), Stockholm 2024 (in press), 250 pp.

Amy Strecker, 'Landscape, Property and Spatial [In]Justice in International Law', Jones et al. Landscape, Law and Justice - 20 Years, KVHAA, pp. 117-143.


Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire (in press)

Amy Strecker and Amanda Byer: 'Landscape, Law and Spatial Justice in the Former British Empire'.

Amanda Byer: ‘Reserving Space: Land, Nature, and Empire in the Development of Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law’.

Sonya Cotton: ‘Legislating “Community” in Southern Africa’s Plural Properties’.

Raphael Ng'etich: ‘Competing Notions of Land in Colonial Kenya and the Impact on Present-Day Land Governance’.

Sinéad Mercier: ‘A Haunting Absence: Tracing the Origins of International Energy Law from the Laboratory of Ireland’.

in Donal Coffey and Stefan Vogenauer (eds), Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire, Max Planck Global Perspectives on Legal History 2024.

Global Landscape Governance on the 20th Anniversary of the European Landscape Convention

Amy Strecker, 'Global Landscape Governance on the 20th Anniversary of the European Landscape Convention', in M. Agnoletti, S. Dobricic, T. Matteini, J. Manuel Palerm (eds), Cultivating Continuity of the European Landscape, Springer Nature 2024.

Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment for Development Projects

Amy Strecker, 'Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment for Development Projects', in Lucas Lixinski and Lucie Morisset (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law, Routledge 2024.

"We always sing, even when we're losing." Restoring Dublin's place on Ireland's World Heritage Tentative List

Sinéad Mercier, 'We always sing, even when we're losing. Restoring Dublin's place on Ireland's World Heritage Tentative List,' Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal 2023, 30(1), 3-15.

Climate Law from the Interstices and the Spatial Dimensions of TWAIL

Amanda Byer, 'Climate Law from the Interstices: Caribbean SIDS and the Spatial Dimensions of TWAIL', TWAIL Reflections #54/2023


Landscape Destruction and Spatial Injustice in Ireland and the Caribbean

Amy Strecker and Conor Newman, " Beyond Sovereignty. Tara, the M3 and Access to Justice for Cultural Landscape Destruction in Ireland", in Amy Strecker & Joe Powderly (eds), Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law (Brill 2023). (open access)

Amanda Byer, "Virtual Enclosure, Spatial Injustice and Heritage Destruction in the Caribbean. The Case of Camerhogne Park, Grenada" in Amy Strecker & Joe Powderly (eds), Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law (Brill 2023). (open access)

Men who eat Ring Forts

Sinéad Mercier, "Men Who Eat Ringforts: Understanding Environmental and Heritage Destruction in the Modernist Lawscape" (June 2023). Askeaton Contemporary Arts, 2022, ISBN 9780995706286, UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09 / 2023 (open access)

Placing Property. A Legal Geography of Property Rights in Land (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)

Amanda Byer's new book, "takes readers on an intellectually compelling tour of land rights, customs, and practices across an impressive range of landscapes including pre-feudal Scandinavia, pre-Columbian America, the colonisation of the Caribbean and Ireland... Byer powerfully demonstrates the need to embed land laws within their geographical conditions and limits" - Nicole Graham
(open access)

Before Property: a Prehistory of Property Rights in Land

Amanda Byer, "Before Property: A Prehistory of Property Rights in Land", UCD Working Papers in Law, Criminology & Socio-Legal Studies, Research Paper No. 10 / 2022 (open access).

Resistance to Mining and Pathways to a Sustainable Rural Environment: Rewriting the Maps

V’cenza Cirefice, Sinéad Mercier and Aideen O’Dochartaigh, ‘Resistance to Mining and Pathways to a Sustainable Rural Environment: Rewriting the Maps’ in Adrienne Atron, Sean Heron and Ruth McAreavey (eds), Rural Governance in the UK. Towards a Sustainable and Equitable Society (Routledge, 2022), 99-119
(open access).

Chained Communities: A Critique of South Africa’s Approach to Land Restitution

Anthony C. Diala and Sonya R. Cotton, 'Chained Communities: A Critique of South Africa's Approach to Land Restitution', African Studies Quarterly (Volume 20, Issue 3), 2021. The article is Open Access and available to read online (accessible here through clicking the title).