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Email:: M.G.Jordan@soton.ac.uk

Dr Mark Jordan

Lecturer in Land Law

Dr Mark Jordan is a Lecturer of Land Law within Southampton Law School at the University of Southampton.

Mark speaks on all aspects of the residential tenancy law and policy of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, notably

Devolution and housing law and policy, rent regulation, security of tenure systems, regulation of housing condition and safety and the right to housing in national housing systems.

Author of

Articles and book chapters on residential tenancy law and comparative tenancy law
Tenlaw national reports on the Republic of Ireland and Scotland (European Commission, 2015) (author)
Cross-Border Acquisition of Residential Property: Problems that Arise for Citizens (European Parliament, 2016) (co-author)

Research

Responsibilities

Publications

Teaching

Contact

Research interests

European Tenancy and Housing Law

‘Extremity of Tenancy on the Fringes of Europe: The British Assured Shorthold Tenancy in a European Context’ in C. Schmid (ed), Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Europe (Edward Elgar, 2018)
TENLAW project, an EU funded investigation of tenancy law in EU-27 states (www.tenlaw.uni-bremen.de/, 2012-2015); national reports and tenant’s brochures for the Republic of Ireland and Scotland (author)
PhD dissertation (current) on aspects of tenancy law in Britain and Ireland
‘Tenancy law and Renovation of Energy Systems in Residential Homes’ (German Construction and Housing Agency, 2014) (co-reporter on United Kingdom with Prof Peter Sparkes)
Housing Law Research Network and European Network of Housing Research (contributor to symposia and conferences)
Articles and book chapters on aspects of European residential tenancy law

Comparative Land Law

Cross-Border Acquisition of Residential Property: Problems that Arise for Citizens (European Parliament, PE356.936, 2016) (co-author)
The Impact of the Mortgage Credit Directive in Europe (Jean Monnet Chair of EU Private Law, Legal Clinic on Housing and Residential Mediation of the University of Barcelona) (author of the national report on the Republic of Ireland)
‘Illegality and the Law of Fast Fish and Loose Fish’ [2017] 57 Irish Jurist, 1-29.
Articles and book chapters on Irish and English land law

Supporting advocacy

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) v. Ireland Complaint No. 110/2014; supporting preliminary drafts, supporting tenant’s meetings, (co-authored response to the State’s submissions on the merits of the Complaint)
Contributor to Housing Rights Seminar, FEANTSA, Doughty Street Chambers (2015)

Research group

Centre for Law, Policy and Society

Year 3 Co-ordinator

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Conference Papers

Jordan, M, “Articles 16 and 31 of the Revised European Social Charter: A Question of Synergy” (2012) NUI Galway, April 20th

Article

Jordan, M. (2017). Illegality and the law of Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish. Irish Jurist, 57, 14-34.

Book Chapters

Jordan, M. (2022). Student housing in England. In T. Vandromme, N. Carette, & D. Vermeir (Eds.), Student Housing in Europe: An Overview of Policies and Regulations in Several Countries Eleven Publishing.
Jordan, M. (2019). European property law and the demands of electronic conveyancing: a ‘property in the margins’ perspective. In S. Murphy, & P. Kenna (Eds.), eConveyancing and Title Registration in Ireland (pp. 177-199). Clarus Press.
Jordan, M. (2018). The British assured shorthold tenancy in a European context: Extremity of tenancy law on the fringes of Europe. In C. U. Schmid (Ed.), Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Europe: Towards Regulatory Equilibrium (pp. 239-259). (Elgar Land and Housing Law and Policy Series). Edward Elgar.
Jordan, M. (2018). To learn and to forget: Lessons from the Irish mortgage crisis. In M. Anderson, & A. Amayuelas (Eds.), The Impact of the Mortgage Credit Directive in Europe: Contrasting Views from Member States (pp. 271-299). Europa Law Publishing.
Jordan, M., & Kenna, P. (2014). Housing Rights in Europe: The Council of Europe leads the way. In P. Kenna (Ed.), Contemporary Housing Issues in a Globalized World (pp. 115-140). Ashgate.

Conferences

Letter/Editorial

Jordan, M. (2020). COVID-19 and the growing threat of evictions in the UK. Housing Rights Watch. http://www.housingrightswatch.org/content/covid-19-and-growing-threat-evictions-uk

Reports

Jordan, M. (2022). Mainstreaming human rights in participatory urban regeneration in Ireland. Dublin South City Partnership.
Sparkes, P., & Jordan, M. (2016). Cross border acquisitions of residential property in the EU: problems encountered by citizens. European Parliament Policy Department B, Structural and Cohesion Policies. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=IPOL_STU(2016)556936
Jordan, M. (2014). Deliverable no. 3.1: Tenant’s Rights Brochure for Republic of Ireland. (TENLAW: Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Multi-level Europe). European Commission.
Jordan, M. (2014). Deliverable no. 3.1: Tenant’s Rights Brochure for Scotland. (TENLAW: Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Multi-level Europe). European Commission.
Jordan, M. (2014). Deliverable no. 3.2: National Report for Republic of Ireland. (TENLAW: Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Multi-level Europe). European Commission.
Jordan, M. (2014). Deliverable no. 3.2: National Report for Scotland. (TENLAW: Tenancy Law and Housing Policy in Multi-level Europe). European Commission.

Review

Jordan, M. (2019). Helen Carr, Brendan Edgeworth and Caroline Hunter (eds), Law and the Precarious Home: Socio Legal Perspectives on the Home in Insecure Times. Edinburgh Law Review, 23(1), 144-146. https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2019.0540

Current Teaching

Land Law (module co-ordinator with Prof Sarah Nield), Equity and Trusts, Company law

Dr Mark Jordan
Southampton Law School, Building 4 University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ UK

Room Number : 4/3019

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