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Sarah Keenan is a Senior Lecturer in Land Law at Queen Mary University of London School of Law, where she joined in September 2024. Previously, she held academic positions at Birkbeck, SOAS, and Oxford Brookes, co-founding the Centre for Research on Race and Law at Birkbeck. Her research spans legal and political thought, geography, feminist and postcolonial theory, and law’s intersections with the more-than-human world.
Keenan’s work critically examines property in land, particularly its role in shaping spatial and temporal order. Supported by a Leverhulme Fellowship (2017–2018), she has analyzed how title registration systems erase Indigenous histories and advance property as a malleable relation of belonging. Her current focus on climate crisis and plantlife, exemplified by Japanese knotweed, challenges conventional legal boundaries and agency frameworks.
- 2025: Plants Against Property (Theory, Culture and Society)
- 2023: Articles on property pedagogy, Gweagal Shield restitution, and electronic conveyancing
- 2022: Chapter on mortgage finance and property destabilization
- 2021: Essays on race/time/title registration and legal belonging
- 2020: Analysis of Terra Nullius in the Pacific
Keenan remains a Visiting Reader at Birkbeck School of Law and engages in public discourse through blogs, podcasts, and media commentary. Her scholarship has influenced artistic projects like Before Law and debates on decolonizing legal objects.
