Dr Antonia Layard
Position: Senior Lecturer
School: Law
Tel: +44 (0)29 208 74340
Fax: +44 (0)29 208 74097
Email: LayardA@cf.ac.uk
Ext: 74340
Point of contact:
Clare Hopkins
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Introduction
Antonia Layard's research interests are in law and geography, in particular investigating the construction of 'the local' and the legal practices of place-making. From Jan 2012 she will be funded by an ESRC Mid-Career Fellowship on Localism, Law and Governance drawing on theoretical and empirical research to investigate and track the implementation of 'local law' and practice. Her research is also funded in five projects under the AHRC's Connected Communities programme (see below).
Antonia is currently writing a book on Law, Place & Maps to be published by Routledge in 2012. She is also writing a book with Jane Holder, UCL on Creating European Territory: Law, Environmental Protection and the EU’s Land Project on territorial cohesion policy and spatial governance within the EU. Collectively, these projects investigate how relational understandings of locality, place and scale correspond with legal formulations that assume fixed spatial boundaries and jurisdictions. These legal practices, Antonia suggests, amount to a modern form of enclosure that should be acknowledged and critiqued.
Selected Publications
- Layard, A Law, Place & Maps (Routledge, Glasshouse) 2012 (forthcoming)
- Layard, A 'Place-making and Property Paradigms' in Journal of Human Rights and the Environment (forthcoming)
- Layard, A 'The Localism Act 2011: What is 'local' and how do we (legally) construct it?' Environmental Law Review (2012) (forthcoming)
- Layard, A 'Law and Localism: the Case of Multi-occupancy Housing' Legal Studies (2012) (forthcoming)
- Holder J and Layard A', 'Drawing Out the Elements of Territorial Cohesion: Rescaling Spatial Governance' Yearbook of European Law (2011)
- Layard, A, 'Shaping the Place' and the Ability to Exclude: Housing and Localism in England' in Diamond, M and Turnipseed T, (ed) Housing, Community and Identity Ashgate, (2011)
- Layard A, 'Shopping in the Public Realm: The Law of Place', Journal of Law and Society (2010) (SLSA Best Article Prize 2010)
- Holder J and Layard A, Relating Territorial Cohesion, Solidarity and Environmental Justice' in Ross M and Borgmann-Prebil, Y Promoting Solidarity in the EU , OUP, Oxford (2010)
- Layard A and Holder, J Seeking Spatial and Environmental Justice: The Role of Territorial Cohesion, Law and Ecology: New Normative Foundations in Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A (ed) Routledge, London (2010)
Funded Projects
- ESRC Mid-Career Fellowship in law and geography on Localism, Law & Governance Jan 2012 - Dec 2013
- AHRC Connected Communities Grant: Creative Participation in Housing and Planning (with Tom Wakeford, Ediinburgh and Jane Milling, Exeter)
- AHRC Connected Communities Grant: Localism, Narrative & Myth (PI) (with Joe Painter, Durham and Hamish Fyfe, Glamorgan)
- AHRC Connected Communities Grant: Taverns, locals and street corners: cross-chronological studies in community drinking, regulation and public space (with Fabrizio Nevola Bath (PI) and Jane Milling, Exeter)
- AHRC Connected Communities Grant: Localism and Connected Community Planning (with Phil Jones, Birmingham (PI) and Chris Speed, Edinburgh College of Art)
- AHRC Connected Communities Grant: Cultural intermediation: connecting communities in the creative urban economy with Phil Jones, Birmingham (PI) and others
- SLSA Small Grant: From the New Deal to Localism: Local Law in Practice (with Matthew Humphries, Kingston)
