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Dr Mark Jordan is a Lecturer of Housing and Property Law at the Law School of the University of Southampton. He serves as Co-director of the Research Centre for People, Property, and Community and is the co-coordinator of the Housing Law stream at the European Network of Housing Research. His academic work focuses on the intersection of housing law, property rights, and social justice.
Dr Jordan's research interests span multiple interconnected fields including:
- Human rights and housing
- Renting law and policy
- Rent regulation and security of tenure
- Social movements and social change
- Comparative law approaches to housing systems
- Socio-legal and critical legal scholarship
His work examines how rights talk and practices are deployed by both marginalized groups and established interests to contest and reshape property and housing systems. Dr Jordan has particularly focused on how tenants' unions leverage housing rights to challenge housing commodification and financialization, while also exploring how property interest groups deploy competing private property strategies to defend existing systems.
Dr Jordan's recent publications demonstrate a strong focus on contemporary housing challenges across multiple jurisdictions. His work spans theoretical explorations of property paradigms, empirical studies of tenant organizing, and practical analyses of regulatory frameworks. A significant thread throughout his scholarship is the examination of how constitutional changes, particularly legislative devolution in the UK, shape housing law and policy.
As an educator, Dr Jordan serves as joint module lead for Land Law, a core Year 2 course in the LLB program, and teaches Equity and Trusts. He also supervises PhD students and has taught at postgraduate levels at multiple universities.
Dr Jordan is actively engaged with the broader academic and policy communities through his role as co-coordinator of the Housing Law stream at the European Network of Housing Research and as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law. His external engagements include numerous speaking engagements at international conferences on housing law and policy.
