Brian Sloan is currently a Visiting Researcher at the EW Barker Centre for Law & Business at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore. Brian read for his BA in Law (scholar) and LLM (Wright Rogers scholar, Faculty of Law) at Robinson College, Cambridge. He then took up a WM Tapp doctoral studentship at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and his PhD was supervised by Professors Kevin Gray and Jens Scherpe. Brian’s primary role is as an Assistant Professor in Property Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow and Director of Studies in Law at Robinson College, Cambridge, and the Chair of the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. He teaches Equity, Family Law, Land Law and the Law of Succession. Brian’s publications include Informal Carers and Private Law (Hart, 2013, a winner of the University of Cambridge’s Yorke Prize), Borkowski’s Law of Succession (4th edn OUP, 2020), Landmark Cases in Succession Law (ed, Hart, 2019), Spaces of Care (ed with Loraine Gelsthorpe and Perveez Mody, Hart, 2020) and Parental Guidance, State Responsibility and Evolving Capacities: Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (ed with Claire Fenton-Glynn, Brill, 2021). He holds honorary memberships of both the Property Litigation Association and the Property Bar Association, and has previously held visiting positions at institutions including the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong.
