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Dr Julian Sidoli

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Professional biography

Julian graduated from University College London and was Called to the Bar by the Inner Temple. In addition, he holds two masters' degrees and a PhD. Whilst continuing to practice at the Bar specialising in Chancery, Personal Injury and Clinical Negligence Julian has responsibility for Land Law and Equity and Trusts at the Open University and is currently working on the development of a new Land Law module. Julian has been an external examiner at a number of universities including at PhD level. Julian has lectured extensively internationally including in Canada, Australia, India, Sweden, Italy, France, Spain and the Netherlands. He is a member of the Chancery Bar Association, the Wales and Chester Circuit and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Research interests

Julian has published widely in the fields of alternative dispute resolution, housing and property and has edited a number of collections. He was submitted in both  REF 2014 and REF 2021. He is currently working on a paper on constructive trusts, a monograph on mediation and a number of papers in Law and Literature. Julian is interested in receiving research proposals in any of the above areas especially those with a jurisprudential aspect and also on interdisciplinary projects with colleagues across different faculties and universities.

Selected Publications

  1. (2022) 'A Conceptual Model of conveyances on the housing market' in The Routledge Companion to International Housing Markets , Routledge, Abingdon Oxfordshire (Edited by Omololade Akinsomi, Magnus Andersson, Beatrice Balivet, Helena Bohman, Peter Palm).
  2. (2022) 'Property Transactions in England and Wales' in The Routledge Companion to International Housing Markets , Routledge, Abingdon Oxfordshire (Edited by Omololade Akinsomi, Magnus Andersson, Beatrice Balivet, Helena Bohman, Peter Palm).
  3. (2020) 'The Jurisprudence of Mediation' in Law in Motion: 50 Years of Legal Change, The Open University Law School (Edited by Lisa Claydon, Caroline Derry and Marjan Ajevski), pp 150-167.
  4. (2019) ‘Privacy, participation and the city’ (with Abigail Jackson) in Global Perspectives in Urban Law: The Legal Power of Cities, Routledge, Abingdon Oxfordshire (Edited by Nestor Davidson and Geeta Tewari), pp 27–42
  5. (2018) ‘Common threads in housing law research: a systematic and thematic analysis of the field’ (with M Vols) in Sidoli, J and Vols, M (2018) People and Buildings: Comparative Housing Law, Eleven International Publishing, The Hague, the Netherlands, pp 1-23.
  6. (2018) People and Buildings: Comparative Housing Law, (Edited with M Vols). Eleven International Publishing, The Hague, the Netherlands, pp 1-191.
  7. (2017) ‘Informal housing: plurality in the city’ in Law between Buildings: Emergent Global Perspectives in Urban Law, Routledge, Abingdon Oxfordshire (Edited by Nestor Davidson and Nisha Mistry), pp 130–147.
  8. (2017) ‘Contemporary housing law’ in Regulating the City: Contemporary Urban Housing Law (with M Vols and M Kiehl), Eleven International Publishing, The Hague, the Netherlands, pp 1-10.
  9. (2017) Regulating the City: Contemporary Urban Housing Law, (Edited with M Vols and M Kiehl). Eleven International Publishing, The Hague, the Netherlands, pp 1-170.
  10. (2015) ‘Adjudication in tenancy deposit scheme disputes: agents’ perspectives’ (with George and Vols). International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, Vol 7(2) pp 162–171.
  11. (2015) ‘Human rights and protection against eviction in anti-social behaviour cases in the Netherlands and Germany’ (with M Vols and M Kiehl). European Journal of Comparative Law & Governance, Vol 2(2) pp 1–26 (May–June 2015). 
  12. (2015) ‘Mediation and conservation conflicts: from top-down to bottom-up’ (with Mark Reed) in Conflicts in Conservation: Strategies for Coping with a Changing World (Edited by Juliette Young and Steve Redpath),Cambridge University Press, pp 222–235. 
  13. (2014) ‘The problem of compulsory mediation: civil justice, human rights and proportionality’. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, Volume 6(3) pp 286–299. 
  14. (2014) ‘Renting, the law and human rights’ (with Padraic Kenna) in Public and Private Renting in Ireland (Edited by Lorcan Sirr). Institute of Public Administration, Dublin, pp 209–221.
  15. (2014) ‘Selective licensing – residents, landlords and community engagement: the perspectives of scheme managers’ (with Giles Spencer & Padraic Kenna). Journal of Housing Law, Vol 17(4) pp 72–77.
  16. (2013) ‘Construction mediation as a developmental process’ International Review of Law, Vol 2013(1) pp 1–8 also published in Arabic as الوساطة في منازعات البناء كعملیة تنمویة.
  17. (2012) ‘Selective licensing and resident satisfaction: a case study’. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, Vol. 4(2) pp 126–139. 
  18. (2011) ‘An investigation into lawyer attitudes towards the use of mediation in commercial property disputes in England and Wales’. International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, Vol 3(2) pp 182–198.

Publications

Change of User - Landlord's unreasonable consent (2019)
Sidoli, Julian
Landlord and Tenant Review, 22(6)


A theory of participation: what makes stakeholder and public engagement in environmental management work? (2018-04-24)
Reed, Mark S.; Vella, Steven; Challies, Edward; de Vente, Joris; Frewer, Lynne; Hohenwallner-Ries, Daniela; Huber, Tobias; Neumann, Rosmarie K.; Oughton, Elizabeth A.; Sidoli del Ceno, Julian and van Delden, Hedwig
Restoration Ecology, 26(S1) (S7-S17)


Human Rights and Protection against Eviction in Anti-social Behaviour Cases in the Netherlands and Germany (2015)
Vols, Michel; Kiehl, Marvin and Sidoli del Ceno, Julian
European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance, 2(2) (pp. 156-181)


Adjudication in tenancy deposit scheme disputes: agents’ perspectives (2015)
Sidoli del Ceno, Julian; George, Hannah and Vols, Michel
International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 7(2) (pp. 162-172)


Costs, Conditions and Consultations: Recent Developments in Selective Licensing (2015)
Sidoli, Julian and Jackson, Abigail
Journal of Housing Law, 18(5)


Compulsory mediation: civil justice, human rights and proportionality (2014)
Sidoli del Ceno, Julian
International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 6(3) (pp. 286-299)


Selective licensing – residents, landlords and community engagement: the perspectives of scheme managers (2014)
Sidoli, Julian; Kenna, Padraic and Spencer, Giles
Journal of Housing Law, 17(4)


An investigation into lawyer attitudes towards the use of mediation in commercial property disputes in England and Wales (2011-07-12)
Sidoli del Ceno, Julian
International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 3(2) (pp. 182-198)


England and Wales (2022)
St George, Jill and Sidoli, Julian
In: Andersson, Magnus; Palm, Peter; Bohman, Helena; Balivet, Béatrice and Akinsomi, Omokolade eds. The Routledge Companion to International Housing Markets (pp. 180-188)
ISBN : 9780367646646 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London


A Conceptual Model of Conveyances on the Housing Market (2022)
Sidoli, Julian; Palm, Peter; Balivet, Beatrice and Jingryd, Ola
In: Andersson, Magnus; Palm, Peter; Bohman, Helena; Balivet, Beatrice and Akinsomi, Omokolade eds. The Routledge Companion to International Housing Markets (pp. 14-21)
ISBN : 978-0-367-64664-6 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon


The Jurisprudence of Mediation (2020-12)
Sidoli, Julian
In: Claydon, Lisa; Derry, Caroline and Ajevski, Marjan eds. Law in Motion: 50 years of Legal Change (pp. 150-167)
ISBN : 978-1-4730-3148-7 | Publisher : The Open University Law School


Privacy, Participation and the City (2019)
Jackson, Abigail and Sidoli, Julian
In: Davidson, Nestor M. and Tewari, Geeta eds. Global Perspectives in Urban Law: The Legal Power of Cities
ISBN : 9780815372271 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London


Common threads in housing law research: a systematic and thematic analysis of the field (2017)
Vols, Michel and Sidoli, Julian
In: Vols, Michel and Sidoli, Julian eds. People and Buildings: Comparative Housing Law. Studies in Housing Law (2) (pp. 1-23)
ISBN : 978-94-6236-802-6 | Publisher : Eleven International Publishing | Published : The Hague, The Netherlands


Informal housing: Plurality in the city (2016)
Sidoli del Ceno, Julian
In: Davidson, Nestor and Mistry, Nisha eds. Law Between Buildings: Emergent Global Perspectives in Urban Law
ISBN : 9781315591575 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : London


Contemporary Housing Law (2016)
Vols, Michel and Sidoli, Julian
In: Sidoli, Julian; Vols, Michel and Kiehl, Marvin eds. Regulating the City: Contemporary Housing Law. Studies in Housing Law (pp. 1-10)
ISBN : 978-94-6236-711-1 | Publisher : Eleven International Publishing | Published : The Hague, The Netherlands


Mediation and conservation conflicts: from top-down to bottom-up (2015)
Reed, Mark S. and Sidoli Del Ceno, Julian
In: Redpath, Stephen M.; Gutierrez, Ralph J.; Wood, Kevin A. and Young, Juliette C. eds. Conflicts in Conservation: Navigating Towards Solutions (pp. 226-239)
ISBN : 9781139084574 | Publisher : Cambridge University Press | Published : Cambridge


Renting, the Law and Human Rights (2014-11-10)
Sidoli del Ceno, Julian and Kenna, Padraic
In: Sirr, Lorcan ed. Renting in Ireland: The Social, Voluntary and Private Sectors (pp. 209-221)
ISBN : 978-1910393017 | Publisher : Institute of Public Administration | Published : Dublin


People and Buildings: Comparative Housing Law (2017)
Vols, Michel and Sidoli, Julian eds.
Studies in Housing Law
ISBN : 978-94-6236-802-6 | Publisher : Eleven Publishing | Published : The Hague, Netherlands


Regulating the City: Contemporary Urban Housing Law (2016)
Sidoli, Julian; Vols, Michel and Kiehl, Marvin Noah Frank eds.
Studies in Housing Law
ISBN : 978-94-6236-711-1 | Publisher : Eleven International Publishing | Published : The Hague, The Netherlands


Disputing in the Built Environment (2021-04-12)
Sidoli, Julian Silvano
PhD thesis The Open University