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Email: C.Prevete@soton.ac.uk
Dr Chiara Prevete is a Lecturer in Law and a Member of the Research Centre for People Property Community. Her main research draws on socio-legal and comparative scholarship to explore how the uncontrolled creation of rules around housing management in England and Europe has left tenants without a clear voice to challenge landlords.
My main line of research explores how tenant participation in social housing management has the potential to hold powerful landlords accountable in the context of uncontrolled housing law creation.
My latest paper, published in the European Public Law Journal, discusses how the belief that private market entities are more efficient than the State permeated the provision of social housing in England and Italy, creating a myriad of regulations that led to the exclusion of tenants from policy decision-making. Social housing should backpedal in this process and ensure a more centralised public housing administration to ensure long-term sustainability.
I am currently writing a paper on the importance of accountability in social housing management. My contribution focuses on the role of the Housing Ombudsman and the Social Regulator in the developments concerning the tragic death of Awaab Ishak due to mould in social housing.
Chiara is a Lecturer in Land Law, a Year 2 core module on the LLB programme.
Chiara attained her LLB at the University of La Sapienza of Rome Law School in 2011 and was admitted to the Italian Bar in 2015. In 2013, she obtained an LLM MA in Management, Sustainability and Environment at Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. In 2015, Chiara obtained an LLM at the University of La Sapienza University of Rome Law School. She obtained her PhD in Economics and Law from the University of La Sapienza of Rome Law School in 2021.
From 2016 until 2018, Chiara was the Executive Director of the ‘Laboratory for the Governance of the City as a Commons at the University Luiss Guido Carli of Rome (LabGov.city). The “Laboratory for the Governance of the City as a Commons” is an international network of theoretical, empirical and applied research platforms engaged in exploring and developing methods, policies, and projects focused on the shared and collaborative management of urban spaces and resources.
From 2017 until 2021, Chiara worked as a practising lawyer at Franco Giampietro & Partners.
From 2021 until 2023, Chiara worked as a legal research assistant for the Cultural Heritage Foundation in Rome, funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture. During the same period, she was also a legal counsellor in Migration Law at La Sapienza University of Rome (SALASS).
From 2022 to 2024, Chiara taught Land Law, Public Law, and Company Law at the University of Manchester.