School of Law

Staff

Biography
Lisa was appointed to a full-time lectureship in the School of Law in 2000. Her main research interest is family law and her recent publications examine the legal definition of the family in light of contemporary societal trends, the rights of same-sex couples, the viability of same-sex marriage as a strategy for reform, and the distribution of property and income on relationship breakdown. As well as being an Executive Committee member of the Socio-Legal Studies Association, Lisa is a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of the multi-disciplinary journal Child Care in Practice and is Northern Ireland Editor of the Irish Journal of Family Law. She has also acted as consultant to the Law Reform Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland and the Northern Ireland Office of Law Reform.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Family Law
• Introduction to Property Law

Postgraduate

• Gender, Sexuality and Violence

Research
Family Law, Cohabitation, Comparative Family Law and Social Policy, Legal Regulation of Gender and Sexuality. Commercial law, Unincorporated Associations.

Selected Publications
Strategizing for the Future through the Civil Partnership Act (2006) 33(2) Journal of Law and Society 244-276

Displacing the Conjugal Family in Legal Policy – A Progressive Move? (2005) 17(2) Child & Family Law Quarterly 141-163

Glennon et. al., ‘Trends in Formation and Dissolution of Couples' in Scott, Treas & Richards (eds) The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Families (Blackwell Publishers, 2003) pp 306-321

‘Family Law in Northern Ireland – Developments, Setbacks and an Uncertain Future', in Bainham, A., (ed.) The International Survey of Family Law (Jordans Publishing Ltd., 2004) pp 383-403

‘Targeting the Exclusionary Impact of Family Law' in Mavis Maclean, (ed.) Family Law and Family Values (Hart Publishing, 2005) pp 157-181

"Matrimonial Property: Legal Developments and Social Trends" in Morgan & Livingstone (eds) Law and Public Opinion in Twentieth-Century Britain and Ireland (2003, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan Ltd) 59

Administration
Admissions Officer 2001-present
School Liaison Officer 2001-present