Dr Caroline Buffery

Biography 

Caroline is a Senior Lecturer in Law on the Land and Property Modules in Real Estate and Rural Land Management.

She has been a Lecturer in law for a number of years, predominantly in Equity, Trusts and Land Law but also in other areas of Civil Litigation.

Caroline has a BSc, an LLM in Commercial Law, and was called to the Bar for the Inner Temple following the BVC. She also has a PhD in Law from the University of Birmingham.

She has had legal roles in housing as an advisor and advocate, and as the legal officer for a canal and waterways charity, in which she undertook the conveyancing and transfer of property for a trust.

Research

Caroline has a PhD from the University of Birmingham in Legal Geography, which is her specialist area of research. She has an interest in a number of investigative perspectives in law from jurisprudence, human, cultural and urban geography through to history, literature, anthropology, and landscape studies. She enjoys using the multi-disciplinary approach to law to analyse, frame, and debate legal theories and positions. 

Teaching

Undergraduate and postgraduate elements of law on several modules, including the property modules on RICS accredited courses, Dissertation and PhD supervision.

 

Publications
  • Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference  ‘Presentation: Legal Geographies: Moving forward with Methods and Materialities’
  • Critical Legal Conference 2024 ' Speculations' (Lund University, Sweden) Presentation: 'Shifting landscapes: the legal geographies of tidal estuaries in England and Wales'
  • C.A.Buffery ‘The Rivers of Law: A historical legal–geography of the fisheries on the Severn Estuary ' (2018) 25 (6) Journal of Water Law 263-271