The Lawful Forest

The Lawful Forest is an important contribution to legal history, one that may alter perceptions of the natured history of law for those of conventional property scholarship as well as those more akin to critical property studies, decolonial and post-Marxist scholarship. The work is important for anyone working on understanding the history of the common law and its connection with property forms, where lost accounts of the shaping of black-letter law can be just as useful for a property law professor as for their students.The connecting of custom, nature and community in this text, offers an invaluable archive of all those past and future, in the task of a ‘figurative yearning for a spatial life lived better’ (39). – Lucy Finchett-Maddock * The Modern Law Review *The Lawful Forest is an important contribution to legal history, one that may alter perceptions of the natured history of law for those of conventional property scholarship as well as those more akin to critical property studies, decolonial and post-Marxist scholarship. The work is important for anyone working on understanding the history of the common law and its connection with property forms, where lost accounts of the shaping of black-letter law can be just as useful for a property law professor as for their students.The connecting of custom, nature and community in this text, offers an invaluable archive of all those past and future, in the task of a ‘figurative yearning for a spatial life lived better’ (39). – Lucy Finchett-Maddock * The Modern Law Review *This highly original and thought-provoking book takes a scholarly and eclectic approach to thinking about property. Its shift in analytical lenses reveals debates about resources and assets, combining theoretical and pragmatic insights to raise distinctive research questions. * Antonia Lanyard, University of Oxford *A must-read for scholars thinking about how traditional legal concepts like property law need to be reimagined in the Anthropocene. – Arpitha Kodiveri * Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law *

Cristy Clark is an Associate Professor of Law in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra, Australia. Her research focuses on legal geography, the commons, and the intersection of human rights, neoliberalism, activism and the environment.

John Page is a Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research explores the diversity of property in the common law tradition, and how property intersects with public space and the materiality of place.