Lucy Barnes

I am Module Organiser for Land Law and Jurisprudence. I also lecture the Law of Trusts and Research Methods. 

I am an Associate Professor in UEA Law School where I teach Land Law, the Law of Trusts, Jurisprudence, and Research Methods. Previously, I taught at Kingston University and the University of Kent at Canterbury in the areas of Trusts, Land Law, Public Law and English Legal Process. I completed my thesis “Performances of Law Under Postmodern Conditions” at the University of Kent in 2009, resulting in the award of a PhD without corrections. I hold an LLB (hons) in law, also from the University of Kent, and a distinction in the Postgraduate Certificate of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (Kingston, 2012).

My pedagogical scholarship focuses on inclusive teaching practices, with a particular emphasis on decolonising strategies and accessible learning. I have presented the outputs of my innovation in the areas in the following environments:

‘Read Along with Lucy: A Podcast Strategy to Enhance Engagement and Law Student Experience of Jurisprudence’ during UEA Learning and Teaching Day, 18^th June 2024.

‘Improving Student Experience of their Studies by Decolonising their Modules’, during UEA Student Experience Conference, 26^th March 2024.

‘Decolonising Modules (Land Law as an Example)’, during UEA Law School Scholarship Café, 27^th March 2024.

‘Using Decolonising Strategies to Enhance Student Understanding of Land Law’, during AdvanceHE EDI Colloquium: Decolonising Pedagogies, 21^st July 2022.

My work in this area appears in Ulrike Theuerkauf’s “The UEA Refexive Teaching Toolkit”. I also peer-review articles on these themes for publication in leading journals and serve as a reviewer of projects falling under these themes for a research grants council.

My subject-based scholarship focuses on philosophical and/or literary engagements with the concept of law. I have presented on these themes in the following conferences:

‘Figurations from Dystopia: J.G. Ballard and Urban Space’, during Open B stream at the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, the University of Bristol, September 11^th 2012. 

“Localising Graffiti”, during the ‘Art, Culture, Heritage’ theme at the Socio-legal Studies Association conference in the University of De Montford, 4^th April 2012.

Attended an invite-only British Academy funded workshop ‘Distributing Time and Space’, 07^th November 2011, Kent. Investigating the extent to which any study of co-ops and mutuals is reliant on a particular inter-play between space and time and investigating alternatives to this model.

‘Laughing all the Way to the Bank(sy): Situating Graffiti in the Built Environment’ at the Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference, 08^th September 2011, Downing College, Cambridge University.            

‘Individualising the Big Society: We are all in this (for ourselves) together?’ at the Socio-Legal Studies Association conference, 12 – 14^th April 2011, University of Sussex.

‘Access and Privilege: Law’s Intervention into Landlord/Tenant Relationships’, during ‘Housing Privatisation, 30 Years on: Time for a Critical Reappraisal’, 26^th July 2010, University of Leeds.

I also peer-review articles on these themes for publication in leading journals and serve as a reviewer of projects falling under these themes for a research grants council.

I was the Law School's Director for Admissions from 2016 - 2024. From 2024, I serve as the Law School's Director for Scholarship.