Professor David Cowan

2024

• Cowan, D., Marsh, A. and Harris, J. 2024. Local authority intervention in private renting: From compliance to hardline enforcement. Journal of Law and Society 51(3), pp. 390-412. (10.1111/jols.12489)
• Cowan, D. and Wheeler, S. 2024. Discretion and power. In: Cowan, S. and Halliday, S. eds. Socio-legal Generation: Essays in Honour of Michael Adler. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 55-75., (10.1007/978-3-031-67244-6_4)
• Cowan, D. 2024. Home: socio-legal interventions. In: Jacobs, K. et al. eds. Research Handbook on Housing, the Home and Society. Edward Elgar
• Cowan, D. and Boroumand, K. 2024. The business of Universities: A case study of halls of residence. Critical Social Policy (10.1177/02610183241249694)
• Cloatre, E. and Cowan, D. 2024. Displacements: Objects and relationality. Law & Society Review 58(1), pp. 63-68. (10.1017/lsr.2023.9)
• Cloatre, E., Cowan, D., Hammerslev, O. and Porner Nielsen, S. P. 2024. The object/s of legality. Journal of Law and Society

2023

• Cowan, D. and Tomlinson, J. 2023. Crisis relief? Public resources and judicial review remedies. Public Law 2023(3), pp. 495-509.
• Cowan, D. and Hardy, B. 2023. Charitable purposes and the shaping effects of money. International Journal of Law in Context 19(2), pp. 161-176. (10.1017/S1744552322000313)
• Cowan, D., Fox O'Mahony, L. and Cobb, N. 2023. Great debates in land law. 3rd Edition. Bloomsbury.

2022

• Carr, H., Cowan, D. and Kirton-Darling, E. 2022. Marginalisation, Grenfell Tower and the voice of the social-housing resident: A critical juncture in housing law and policy?. International Journal of Law in Context 18(1), pp. 10-24. (10.1017/S1744552322000088)

2021

• Cowan, D. and McDermont, M. 2021. Regulating social housing: Governing decline. Taylor and Francis. (10.4324/9781003210832)
• Cowan, D. and Hardy, B. 2021. Governing canal life. Journal of Law and Society 48(1), pp. 40-59. (10.1111/jols.12277)

2019

• Cowan, D. and Hardy, B. 2019. Regulating home: a case study. Housing, Theory and Society 37(5), pp. 597-614. (10.1080/14036096.2019.1683066)
• Cowan, D. 2019. Homelessness: The (in)appropriate applicant. [Homelessness: The (in)appropriate applicant]. London: Routledge. (10.4324/9780429399343)
• Cloatre, E. and Cowan, D. 2019. ‘Indefensible and irresponsible’: Interdisciplinarity, truth and #reviewer2. In: Creutzfeldt, N., Mason, M. and McConnachie, K. eds. Routledge Handbook of Socio-Legal Theory and Methods. Routledge, pp. 97-109., (10.4324/9780429952814-7)
• Cowan, D. 2019. Reducing homelessness or re-ordering the deckchairs?. Modern Law Review 82(1), pp. 105-128. (10.1111/1468-2230.12390)

2018

• Cloatre, E. and Cowan, D. 2018. Legalities and materialities. In: Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A. ed. Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory. , pp. 433-452., (10.4324/9781315665733)
• Cowan, D. and Marsh, A. 2018. A perennial problem? On underoccupation in English council housing. Housing Studies 34(2), pp. 319-337. (10.1080/02673037.2018.1487928)
• Cowan, D., Carr, H. and Wallace, A. 2018. Selling and Buying Shared Ownership. In: Cowan, D., Carr, H. and Wallace, A. eds. Ownership, Narrative, Things. Palgrave Macmillan {UK}, pp. 127-155., (10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5_5)
• Cowan, D., Carr, H. and Wallace, A. 2018. Assembling shared ownership. In: Cowan, D., Carr, H. and Wallace, A. eds. Ownership, Narrative, Things. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 179-206., (10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5_7)
• Cowan, D., Carr, H. and Wallace, A. 2018. Experiencing shared ownership. In: Cowan, D., Carr, H. and Wallace, A. eds. Ownership, Narrative, Things. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 157-178., (10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5_6)
• Cowan, D., Carr, H. and Wallace, A. 2018. Managing shared ownership. In: Cowan, D., Carr, H. and Wallace, A. eds. Ownership, Narrative, Things. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 99-126., (10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5_4)
• Cowan, D., Carr, H. and Wallace, A. 2018. Messiness and Techniques of Simplification. In: Cowan, D., Carr, H. and Wallace, A. eds. Ownership, Narrative, Things. Palgrave Macmillan {UK}, (10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5_8)
• Cowan, D., Carr, H. and Wallace, A. 2018. Shared Ownership and Housing Policy. In: Cowan, D., Carr, H. and Wallace, A. eds. Ownership, Narrative, Things. Palgrave Macmillan {UK}, pp. 43-71., (10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5_2)
• Cowan, D., Carr, H. and Wallace, A. 2018. Ownership, Narrative, Things. Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Macmillan {UK}. (10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5)

2017

• Cowan, D., Helen, C. and Alison, W. 2017. “Thank heavens for the lease”: histories of shared ownership. Housing Studies 33(6), pp. 855-875. (10.1080/02673037.2017.1408782)
• Carr, H., Cowan, D. and Alison, W. 2017. Producing the product: a case study of law and its absence. Journal of Law and Society 44(S1), pp. S93-S110. (10.1111/jols.12051)

2016

• Carr, H. and Cowan, D. 2016. What's the use of a hashtag? a case study. Journal of Law and Society 43(3), pp. 416-443. (10.1111/j.1467-6478.2016.00761.x)
• Bevan, C. and Cowan, D. 2016. Uses of macro social theory: a social housing case study. Modern Law Review 79(1), pp. 76-101. (10.1111/1468-2230.12167)

2012

• Cowan, D. 2012. Housing and Property. In: Cane, P. and Kritzer, H. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research. Oxford Academic, pp. 331-352., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199542475.013.0015)
• Cowan, D., Hunter, C. and Pawson, H. 2012. Jurisdiction and scale: rent arrears, social housing, and human rights. Journal of Law and Society 39(2), pp. 269-295. (10.1111/j.1467-6478.2012.00581.x)

2011

• Cowan, D. and Hunter, C. 2011. ‘Yeah but, no but’ -Pinnock and Powellin the Supreme Court. Modern Law Review 75(1), pp. 78-91. (10.1111/j.1468-2230.2012.00889.x)

2009

• McDermont, M., Cowan, D. and Prendergrast, J. 2009. Structuring governance: a case study of the new organizational provision of public service delivery. Critical Social Policy 29(4), pp. 677-702. (10.1177/0261018309341899)

2008

• Cowan, D. and Carr, H. 2008. Actor-network theory, implementation, and the private landlord. Journal of Law and Society 35(s1), pp. 149-166. (10.1111/j.1467-6478.2008.00430.x)

2007

• Cowan, D. and Hitchings, E. 2007. `Pretty boring stuff': district judges and housing possession proceedings. Social and Legal Studies 16(3), pp. 363-382. (10.1177/0964663907079764)
• Carr, H., Cowan, D. and Hunter, C. 2007. Policing the housing crisis. Critical Social Policy 27(1), pp. 100-127. (10.1177/0261018307072209)

2006

• Cowan, D., Blandy, S., Hitchings, E., Hunter, C. and Nixon, J. 2006. District judges and possession proceedings. Journal of Law and Society 33(4), pp. 547-571. (10.1111/j.1467-6478.2006.00370.x)
• Carr, H. and Cowan, D. 2006. Labelling: Constructing definitions of anti-social behaviour?. In: Flint, J. ed. Housing, urban governance and anti-social behaviour: Perspectives, policy and practice. Oxford Academic, pp. 57-78., (10.1332/policypress/9781861346858.003.0004)
• Cowan, D., Halliday, S. and Hunter, C. 2006. Adjudicating the implementation of homelessness law: the promise of socio-legal studies. Housing Studies 21(3), pp. 381-400. (10.1080/02673030600586019)
• Cowan, D. and Marsh, A. 2006. From need to choice, welfarism to advanced liberalism? problematics of social housing allocation. Legal Studies 25(1), pp. 22-48. (10.1111/j.1748-121x.2005.tb00269.x)

2004

• Cowan, D. 2004. Legal consciousness: some observations. Modern Law Review 67(6), pp. 928-958. (10.1111/j.1468-2230.2004.00518.x)
• Cowan, D. and Marsh, A. 2004. Community, neighbourhood, responsibility: contemporary currents in housing studies. Housing Studies 19(6), pp. 845-853. (10.1080/0267303042000293964)
• Cowan, D. and Marsh, A. 2004. From need to choice: R(A) v Lambeth LBC; R(Lindsay) v Lambeth LBC. Modern Law Review 67(3), pp. 478-490. (10.1111/j.1468-2230.2004.496_1.x)

2003

• Cowan, D. 2003. `Rage at Westsinster': sociolegal reflections on the power of sale. Social and Legal Studies 12(2), pp. 177-198. (10.1177/0964663903012002002)
• Cowan, D. and Lomax, D. 2003. Policing unauthorized camping. Journal of Law and Society 30(2), pp. 283-308. (10.1111/1467-6478.00257)

2001

• Cowan, D., Pantazis, C. and Gilroy, R. 2001. Social housing as crime control: an examination of the role of housing management in policing sex offenders. Social and Legal Studies 10(4), pp. 435-457. (10.1177/a020305)
• Cowan, D. and Marsh, A. 2001. New Labour, same old Tory housing policy?. Modern Law Review 64(2), pp. 260-279. (10.1111/1468-2230.00319)

2000

• Cowan, D. and Marsh, A. 2000. There’s regulatory crime, and then there’s landlord crime: from ‘Rachmanites’ to ‘partners’. Modern Law Review 64(6), pp. 855-874. (10.1111/1468-2230.00355)

1999

• Cowan, D., Gilroy, R. and Pantazis, C. 1999. Risking housing need. Journal of Law and Society 26(4), pp. 403-426. (10.1111/1467-6478.00134)

1998

• Cowan, D. 1998. Reforming the homelessness legislation. Critical social policy 18(57), pp. 435-464. (10.1177/026101839801805701)

1995

• Cowan, D. 1995. Community care and homelessness: R v Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council, ex parte B. The Modern Law Review 58(2), pp. 256-261. (10.1111/j.1468-2230.1995.tb02008.x)
• Cowan, D. 1995. HIV and homelessness: lobbying, law, policy and practice. Journal of social welfare & family law 17(1), pp. 43-66. (10.1080/09649069508413635)

1994

• Cowan, D. S. and Fionda, J. 1994. Meeting the need: the response of local authorities' housing departments to the housing of ex-offenders. British Journal of Criminology 34(4), pp. 444-458. (10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a048446)
• Cowan, D. and Fionda, J. 1994. Back to basics: the government's homelessness consultation paper. The Modern Law Review 57(4), pp. 610-619. (10.1111/j.1468-2230.1994.tb01962.x)

1993

• Cowan, D. S. and Fionda, J. 1993. New angles on homelessness. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 15(6), pp. 403-416. (10.1080/09649069308412416)
• Cowan, D. 1993. The public/private dichotomy and “suitable accommodation” under section 69(1) of the housing act 1985. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 15(4), pp. 236-247. (10.1080/09649069308412396)