Dean Taylor

Dean Taylor is a Lecturer in Law at Southampton Law School, specializing in private law with a focus on property and trusts law. He is affiliated with the Centre for People and Property and teaches across all levels of the LLB programme.

• Teaching Responsibilities: Legal Systems and Reasoning (first-year), Land Law (second-year), Equity & Trusts (second-year), Company Law (final-year elective).
• Research Focus: Property guardianship in neoliberal states, housing law policies, equity and trusts law, and the intersection of property, housing, and contract law.
• External Engagements: Presented at academic events in 2022-2024 on property guardianship frameworks.

His PhD research (supervised by Professor Helen Carr) analyzes property guardianship's legal implications, drawing comparisons between Netherlands origins and English urban applications. He contributes to debates on ownership, possession, and transient housing regulation.

Recent publications examine judicial interpretations of property guardianship, including doctrinal challenges and sociological impacts in housing markets. Current work explores the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly and late-20th-century case law precedents.