Aruna Nair
Biography
Aruna Nair is a Tutorial Fellow at Hertford College. She was previously a lecturer in law at King's College London, and completed her undergraduate and doctoral studies at Brasenose College, Oxford. Her research focuses on English property law, broadly conceived to include different aspects of the law of wealth and control of wealth. Her primary research interest is in the question how English law, in different contexts, balances its respect for the private autonomy of owners with respect for other values and interests.
Publications
NAIR A, ‘Powers and incumbrances: the uncertain scope of the Land Registration Act 2002 s.26’ [2023] The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer 146
Nair A, ‘Property and Autonomy in the Marketplace: Freedom to Sell as Freedom of Exit’ (2022) 33(1) King’s Law Journal 34
NAIR A, ‘Property, Priority, and Apportionment: The Case of the Acquisition Creditor’ [2022] Cambridge Law Journal
Nair A, ‘Forgery and the land registration act 2002: The marginalisation of discretion’ (2013) 24(3) King’s Law Journal 403
Nair A, ‘INTERPRETING SECTION 58 OF THE LAND REGISTRATION ACT 2002: THE LIMITS OF "STATUTORY MAGIC"’ (2013) 72(2) CAMBRIDGE LAW JOURNAL 257
Nair A, Textbook on Land Law (Oxford University Press 2023)
Mrockova N, Rostill L and NAIR A, Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 12 (Hart Publishing 2023)
MacKenzie J-A and Nair A, Textbook on Land Law (Oxford University Press, USA 2020)
Nair A, Claims to traceable proceeds: Law, equity, and the control of assets (2018) 1
Nair A, Claims to Traceable Proceeds (Oxford University Press, USA 2018)
NAIR A, ‘Equity and the Land Registration Act 2002: Form, Conscience, and the Judiciary’ in B MCFARLANE and S Elliott (eds.), Equity Today 150 Years after the Judicature Reforms (Bloomsbury Publishing 2023)
NAIR A, ‘Equity in the Land Registration Act 2002: Form, Conscience and the Judiciary’ in B MCFARLANE and S Elliott (eds.), Equity Today 150 Years After the Judicature Reforms (Hart Publishing 2023)
Beaudry J-S and NAIR A, ‘Property, Equality, and the Freedom to Discriminate: The Case of the Discriminatory Gift’ in S Farran, R Hewitson and A Ramshaw (eds.), Modern Studies in Property Law, Volume 11 (Hart Publishing 2021)
NAIR A and Samet I, ‘What can ’Equity’s Darling’ tell us about Equity?’ in D Klimchuk, I Samet and H Smith (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Equity (Oxford University Press 2020)
NAIR A, ‘Morality and the mirror: the normative limits of the ‘principles of land registration’’ in S BRIGHT (ed.), Modern Studies in Property Law - Volume 6 (Hart Publishing 2011)
Nair A, ‘Morality and the mirror: the normative limits of the ’principles of land registration’’ in S Bright (ed.), Modern Studies in Property Law Volume 6 (Hart Publishing 2011)
NAIR A, ‘Mistakes of law and legal reasoning: interpreting Kleinwort Benson v Lincoln City Council’ in C Mitchell, J Penner and R Chambers (eds.), Philosophical Foundations of the Law of Unjust Enrichment (Oxford University Press 2009)
Nair A, ‘Essential Cases: Land Law’ (OUP, 1 September 2019)