Staff Profile

My research analyses the intersection of private property rights and the freedoms of expression and assembly.

I draw from the scholarship of property theorists such as Kevin Gray, Hanoch Dagan and Greg Alexander in arguing for the greater application of the expressional freedoms to privately owned public spaces.

During my doctoral studies I was awarded both an Arts and Humanities Research Council Studentship (Grant Number:AH/R012792/1), and a Modern Law Review Doctoral Scholarship (Academic Year 2024/25).

Module Leader - LAW3031: The Law of Succession (Stage 3)

Module Leader - LAW2263: Equity and Trusts (Stage 2)

• Online Publication

  • Norcup-Brown W. Protest camps on university campuses: the legal status of assemblies on private land [Blog post]. Birmingham: Socio-Legal Studies Association, 2024. Available at: https://slsablog.co.uk/blog/blog-posts/protest-camps-on-university-campuses-the-legal-status-of-assemblies-on-private-land/.

• Reviews

  • Norcup-Brown W. Book Review [London School of Economics Review of Books] – Brian C Jones, Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy (Edward Elgar 2020). LSE Review of Books 2021.
  • Norcup-Brown, W. Book Review: [London School of Economics Review of Books] – H Carr, B Edgeworth and C Hunter (eds), Law and the Precarious Home: Socio Legal Perspectives on the Home in Insecure Times (Hart Publishing 2018).. LSE Review of Books 2019.