Blandy, Sarah, Professor

Qualifications

LLB, University of Warwick
Solicitor of the Supreme Court

Research interests

My research is socio-legal, interdisciplinary and empirical. It focuses on collective and individual property rights, and the spatial boundaries of law in relation to fortified homes and gated communities.

I am a member of the Utopian Legalities, Prefigurative Politics, and Radical Governance group, and of the International Research Forum on Multi-owned Properties:

Publications

Books

Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) Domestic Fortress: Fear and the New Home Front. Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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Edited books

(Ed.) (2015) Researching Property Law. Palgrave Macmillan.
(Ed.) (2010) Multi-owned Housing: Law, Power and Practice. Routledge.
Atkinson R & Blandy S (Ed.) (2006) Gated Communities: International Perspectives. Taylor and Francis / Routledge.

Journal articles

Blandy S (2023) . Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 31(3), 68-83.
Blandy S (2019) . International Journal of Clinical Legal Education, 26(1), 7-45.
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2018) . URBAN STUDIES, 55(2), 483-486.
Blandy S (2018) . People, Place and Policy Online, 11(3), 136-142.
Blandy S, Bright S & Nield S (2018) . The Modern Law Review, 81(1), 85-113.
Mitchell D (2017) . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41(6), 1035-1037.
Woolley L (2017) . The Law Teacher, 51(4), 529-531.
Blandy S (2014) Socio-legal approaches to property law research. Property Law Review, 3(3), 166-175.
Blandy S & Bright S (2014) Editors' Introduction and survey. Property Law Review, 3(3), 139-151.
Blandy S & Wang F (2013) . Geoforum, 47, 199-208.
Blandy S (2013) . Housing Studies, 28(3), 520-522.
Blandy S (2013) The right to buy: an examination of an exercise in allocating, shifting and re-branding risks. Critical Social Policy, 33(1), 17-36.
Meijer F (2012) . Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 27(4), 551-553.
BLANDY S (2011) . Journal of Social Policy, 40(3), 635-636.
Blandy S (2010) . Urban Studies, 47(11), 2475-2477.
Blandy S & Sibley D (2010) . Social and Legal Studies, 19(3), 275-284.
Anacker KB (2009) . Journal of Urban Affairs, 31(4), 511-512.
Blandy S & Hunter C (2009) . European Journal of Housing Policy, 9(4), 480-482.
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2009) A picture of the floating world: Grounding the secessionary affluence of the residential cruise liner. Antipode, 41(1), 92-110.
Blandy S (2009) Fear of crime and of anti-social behaviour and their relation to the spread of residential gated communities in England | La peur de la délinquance et du désordre et l'extension des quartiers résidentiels sécurisés en Angleterre. Deviance et Societe, 33(4), 557-572.
BLANDY S (2008) . The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, 47(5), 563-564.
Hunter C, Nixon J & Blandy S (2008) Researching the judiciary: Exploring the invisible in judicial decision making. Journal of Law and Society, 35(SUPPL. 1), 76-90.
Blandy S (2007) . People, Place and Policy Online, 1(2), 47-54.
Blandy S (2007) Regulating social housing: Governing decline. HOUSING STUDIES, 22(4), 622-624.
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2007) . Housing Studies, 22(4), 443-458.
Mukherjee A & Blandy S (2006) . European Public Law, 12(Issue 3), 495-497.
Cowan D, Blandy S, Hitchings E, Hunter C & Nixon J (2006) . Journal of Law and Society, 33(4), 547-571.
Blandy S (2006) . GeoJournal, 66(1-2), 15-26.
Blandy S, Dixon J & Dupuis A (2006) . Urban Studies, 43(13), 2365-2383.
Atkinson R, Blandy S, Flint J & Lister D (2005) . Town Planning Review, 76(4), 401-422.
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2005) . Housing Studies, 20(2), 177-186.
Blandy S & Lister D (2005) . Housing Studies, 20(2), 287-301.
Blandy S & Hunter C (2004) Relationship breakdown, women and tenants' rights - choice or paternalism. Child and Family Law Quarterly, 16(2), 165-174.
Blandy S & Robinson D (2001) . Journal of Law and Society, 28(3), 384-408.
Blandy S (2001) . Housing, Theory and Society, 18(3), 97-97.
Blandy S & Parsons D (2001) . Interdisciplinary Environmental Review, 3(1), 58-58.
Blandy S & Goodchild B (1999) . Housing, Theory and Society, 16(1), 31-42.
Blandy S & Parsons D () . Geographica Helvetica, 58(4), 314-324.

Chapters

Blandy S & Atkinson R (2022) , The Routledge Handbook of Property, Law and Society (pp. 146-155). Routledge
Blandy S (2021) In Lippert R & Treffers S (Ed.), Condominium Governance and Law in Global Urban Context (pp. 13-28). London: Routledge.
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2020) , International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (pp. 259-263). Elsevier
Blandy S, Nield S & Bright S (2020) , Research Handbook on Private Law Theory (pp. 237-253).
Blandy S & Abram S (2018) Ownership and belonging in urban green space In XU T & Clarke AC (Ed.), Legal Strategies for the Development and Protection of Communal Property; Proceedings of the British Academy Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Blandy S (2018) Precarious Homes: the Sharing Continuum In Carr H, Edgworth B & Hunter C (Ed.), Law and the Precarious Home: Socio Legal Perspectives on the Home in Insecure Times Hart Publishing
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic fortress Manchester University Press
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic fortress Manchester University Press
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic fortress Manchester University Press
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic fortress Manchester University Press
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic fortress Manchester University Press
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic fortress Manchester University Press
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic fortress Manchester University Press
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2016) , Domestic fortress Manchester University Press
Blandy S (2016) , Researching Property Law (pp. 24-42). Macmillan Education UK
Blandy S & Bright S (2016) , Researching Property Law (pp. 180-195). Macmillan Education UK
BLANDY S & LISTER D (2013) , Gated Communities (pp. 97-111). Routledge
Blandy S (2013) Collective Property: Owning and Sharing Residential Space, Modern Studies in Property Law (pp. 152-172).
Vincent-Jones P & Blandy S (2012) , Integrating Socio-Legal Studies into the Law Curriculum (pp. 37-53). Macmillan Education UK
Blandy S (2012) Legal frameworks for multi-owned housing in England and Wales: Owners’ experiences, Multi-owned Housing: Law, Power and Practice (pp. 13-34).
Dupuis A, Blandy S & Dixon J (2012) Introduction, Multi-owned Housing: Law, Power and Practice (pp. 1-12).
Blandy S (2011) Gating as governance: the boundaries spectrum In Crawford A (Ed.), Social and Situational Crime Prevention: International and Comparative Criminal Justice and Urban Governance (pp. 519-544). CUP
Blandy S (2010) Legal Frameworks for Multi-Owned Housing in England and Wales: Owners experiences In Blandy S, Dupuis A & Dixon J (Ed.), Multi-owned Housing: Law, Power and Practice (pp. 13-34). Aldershot: Ashgate.
Atkinson R & Blandy S (2009) , International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (pp. 297-301). Elsevier
Blandy S (2008) , Community Cohesion in Crisis? (pp. 239-258). Policy Press
Blandy S (2008) Secession or cohesion? exploring the impact of gated communities, Community Cohesion in Crisis?: New Dimensions of Diversity and Difference (pp. 239-257).
Blandy S (2006) , Housing, urban governance and anti-social behaviour (pp. 239-256). Policy Press
Blandy S (2006) Gated communities: A response to, or remedy for, anti-social behaviour?, Housing, Urban Governance and Anti-Social Behaviour: Perspectives, Policy and Practice (pp. 239-255).
Blandy S (2006) Judicial attitudes to landlord and tenant law: different policies for different sectors In Bright S (Ed.), Landlord and Tenant Law: Past, Present and Future (pp. 41-63). Hart
Blandy S (2001) , Two steps forward (pp. 73-92). Policy Press
Blandy S () , International and Comparative Criminal Justice and Urban Governance (pp. 519-544). Cambridge University Press
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Glasze G () Routledge

Conference proceedings papers

Blandy S & Parsons D (2003) Gated communities and urban planning: Globalisation or national policy. CULTURE, ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION, AND SUSTAINABILITY (pp 255-266)

Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries

Blandy S & Atkinson R (2012) Gated Communities. In International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home.
Blandy S & Hunter C (2012) Socio-legal perspectives. In International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home.
Hunter C & Blandy S (2012) Rights to housing tenure. In International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home.

Research group

My following supervisees have successfully completed their PhDs

Molly Matthewman, whose research investigates the role of law in graduate housing in London ('Generation Rent'), and the relationship between tenure, identity and home.

Richard Goulding, funded by ESRC / White Rose, whose research investigates the financial, legal and social geographies of low income urban housing in Britain.

Edward Mitchell, funded by ESRC, whose research investigates the role law plays in retail-led urban regeneration schemes, through an actor network approach.

Grants

Title/Description:	Awarding Body:	People Involved:	Dates:	Amount:
Advisory Board member for research project on Materialising Kinship: Cycles of life at the Norwegian cabin	Norwegian Research Council	Marianne Lien, University of Oslo and Simone Abram, University of Durham	2016-2020	£667,000
Invited seminar on 'Enduring Property Relations'	Modern Law Review	Professor Susan Bright (University of Oxford) and Professor Sarah Nield (University of Southampton)	May 2016	£5000
Homelessness Prevention for Women and Children Who Have Experienced Domestic and Family Violence: Innovations in Policy and Practice	Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute	Dr. Angela Spinney, Swinburne University, Australia	2010-2012	AUS $101,570

Teaching interests

I enjoy teaching at all levels, and aim to convey my enthusiasm for the subjects I teach and to encourage students in creative thinking and critical analysis. I bring a socio-legal focus to my teaching based on my research, so that the material covered is related to the real world.

Professional activities and memberships

Recent invited papers and keynote lectures

‘Commonhold finances, and preventing insolvency’, Law Commission consultation event on Reinvigorating Commonhold, Manchester, 19 February 2019
‘The wrong starting point? Multi-owned properties and the English leasehold system; common problems across jurisdictions’, International Research Forum on Multi-owned Properties, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 17-18 January 2019
‘Property 'from the ground up’', International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Onati, Spain, 24 November 2018
Understanding ‘space’ in law: gardens and gardening’, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, 19 February 2018
‘Copropriété in England and Wales’, Séminaire sur la copropriété (workshop on multi-owned property), PUCA, Paris, 26 January 2018
‘The Dynamics of Enduring Property Relations’ (with Susan Bright and Sarah Nield) keynote talk at the annual conference of Australasian Teachers of Property Law, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 26-29 September 2017
‘Defended homes and enclaves: causes and consequences’, research seminar at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, 20 September 2017
'Sharing in the high-rise: law and place', keynote talk at the Symposium on Comparative Social Sustainability: Condominium Law, Living and Landscapes, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Europe), Barcelona, 21-22 November 2016
'Ownership and belonging in urban green space' (with Simone Abram, Anthropology, Durham), Symposium on Legal Strategies for the Development and Protection of Communal Property, School of Law, University of 91̽��, 23-24 May 2016.

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