Contents

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

1    The Idea of Home in Law: Displacement and Dispossession

Lorna Fox O’Mahony and James A. Sweeney

2    Dispossession for Arrears: The Weight of Home in English Law

Susan Bright

3    Home as Ownership, Dispossession as Foreclosure: The Impact of the Current Crisis on the American Model of ‘Home’

Rashmi Dyal-Chand

4    Housing Rights in the Intersection between Expropriation and Eviction Law

A.J. van der Walt

5    The Displacement and Dispossession of Asylum Seekers: Recalibrating the Legal Perspective

James A. Sweeney and Lorna Fox O’Mahony

6    Can International Housing Rights Based on Public International Law Really Impact on Contemporary Housing Systems?

Padraic Kenna

7    The International Law Rights to Home and Homeland

Susan Breau

8    Loss of the Home during Armed Conflict: ECHR Case Law on Destruction, Eviction and Denial of Access

Antoine Buyse

9    Re-thinking Responses to Displacement and Dispossession

Lorna Fox O’Mahony and James A. Sweeney

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