Brian Sloan

Dr Brian Sloan is an Assistant Professor in Property Law and Academic Secretary at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law. He holds MA, LLM, and PhD degrees from the University of Cambridge, where he is a Fellow at Robinson College. His research focuses on property law, family law, succession law, and social care policy, with notable contributions to understanding informal care in private law, the legal status of transsexual individuals, and the intersection of charity law with disability rights.

• Academic Roles: Assistant Professor (since 2021), Academic Secretary (Faculty of Law), Visiting Fellow (City University of Hong Kong).
• Education: PhD (Cambridge), LLM (Wright Rogers Scholar), BA (Law).

Research interests span property law, family law (including adoption, parental rights, and surrogacy), succession law (will validity, testamentary freedom), and social care law (public/private provision, pandemic impacts). He has authored influential books like Informal Carers and Private Law (winner of the Yorke Prize) and Borkowski's Law of Succession.

His work has shaped legal reforms, including contributions to the UK Law Commission’s modernization of wills law. Key articles address evolving parental rights, careAct 2014 implications, and philosophical debates on social contracts and care funding.

Awards: Yorke Prize (2014).

Professional Affiliations: Cambridge Socio-Legal Group (Vice-Chair), Cambridge Family Law Centre (Co-Deputy Director), Property Litigation Association.