Just before Easter, new Head of Anglia Law School Penny English spent three days in Leicester at the annual Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference.

Together with Sarah Blandy from Leeds University, she again organised one of the streams at the conference, entitled 'Challenging Ownership'. Building on the success of the stream last year it attracted an excellent set of papers, which all looked at aspects of property and ownership in contexts as diverse as housing, the occupation at St Pauls, and Parma ham.

They included a paper by Ray Savar, a PhD student at Anglia Ruskin, who is nearing completion of his thesis on the reform of commercial leases. Penny also gave a paper in a different stream concerning the reform of European Union Directive 7/93, (which concerns the return of cultural objects unlawfully removed from the territory of their ownership).

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