About
Dr Mark Jordan is Lecturer of Housing and Property Law and Co-director of the Research Centre for People Property Community. His research examines the interface between housing and property and draws on socio-legal and critical legal scholarship to explore how rights talk and practices are deployed by those on the margins and those at the centre to contest, and reshape, property and housing systems. He is co-director of People, Property, and Community at Southampton Law School and co-coordinator of the Housing Law stream at the European Network of Housing Research.
Research
Research groups
Research interests
- Human rights and housing
- Renting law and policy
- Rent regulation and security of tenure
- Social movements and social change
- Comparative law
Current research
Research
My main field of interest at present is exploring how rights talk and practices are deployed to contest, and reshape, property and housing systems. I am interested in how those at the margins and those at the centre deploy housing and property rights in their campaigns to challenge, or entrench, the status quo. My research has focused on how tenants’ unions use housing rights to challenge processes of housing commodification and financialisation and also explored how competing private property based strategies are deployed by property interest groups to defend the status quo. In my research, I combine different methodological approaches including doctrinal, socio-legal, critical theoretical, and comparative methods. My PhD thesis (2020) examined how housing law and policy in the UK has been shaped by constitutional change in the form of legislative devolution.
I am currently working on a number of housing and property law research projects. These include a collaborative research project with Southampton City Council around overcoming obstacles to enforcement in the private rented sector, a comparative study of tenant and landlord organising in the UK, and the regulation of mortgage lending in the European Union
Publications
Teaching
Mark is the joint module lead of Land Law, a Year 2 core module on the LLB programme. He also teaches Equity and Trusts and has taught at postgraduate levels at a number of Universities.
External roles and responsibilities
Biography
Mark attained his LLB at the National University of Ireland Galway in 2011 and was awarded his PhD in 2021 from the University of Southampton.
Mark worked as a land law researcher at the Office of the Attorney General in 2012 and following this he worked as a researcher with Ballymun Community Law Centre where he provided research support for a Collective Complaint on housing that was taken against Ireland in 2014.
Mark joined Southampton Law School in October 2012 as a Research Fellow on the Tenlaw research project from 2012-2015. After a series of short term contracts, he was appointed as Lecturer in 2016.
Mark was a visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Housing Law Rights and Policy at National University of Ireland Galway in 2021 and he has given guest lectures at a number of Universities including the University of Barcelona and the University of Bremen.
Outside of work, Mark was a founding member of St Jude's Gaelic Football Club (2013) in Southampton and he is a lifelong Mayo GAA fan.