Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Wonnacott's "Forgotten Land Law"

Mark Wonnacott has published Forgotten Land Law, with Talbot Publishing, an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange.  Mr. Wonnacott “spent more than thirty years in full time practice at the Chancery Bar, the last ten in silk."

Do you ever worry that all our modern textbooks tell the same story about land law in England and Wales, and that it might be the wrong story? That fewer than half a dozen books came through the great extinction event of the 1925 Birkenhead legislation, to frame the way that we have thought about land law ever since? This book is about the narratives that were forgotten. It is about what needs to be remembered, for principled decision making today. And if it were possible to write a thoroughly subversive book about black-letter land law, then this would be it.

--Dan Ernst