Lucas has always had a keen interest in history and thus has adopted a legal history approach to research. As a result of having studied and worked in multiple jurisdictions his work also has an inherently comparative slant drawing upon legal sources from throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. His main areas of interest are trusts, property, dispute resolution, international investment law, legal history (with a particular focus on the common law), and legal theory (primarily the classical legal tradition). His work has been cited by the Court of Appeal.
Background
Lucas obtained his undergraduate law degree from the University of Aberdeen in 2010, his LLM from the University of Edinburgh and his doctorate in law from McGill University. Prior to taking up his position at Otago he worked as a Postdoctoral associate in the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution which is part of Cornell University’s ILR School where he designed and taught a course on alternative dispute resolution.
Publications
Clover Alcolea, L. (2023). States as masters of (investment) treaties: The rise of joint interpretative statements. Chinese Journal of International Law, jmad030. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/chinesejil/jmad030
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Clover Alcolea, L. (2023). 'Reform, reform: Aren't things bad enough already?': The case of the Trusts Act 2019. Journal of Equity, 17, 93-120.
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Clover Alcolea, L. (2023). The problem of property: Looking back to the 'Dark Ages' to get through the dark ages. University of St. Thomas Journal of Law & Public Policy, 16(1), 11, 241-299.
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Clover Alcolea, L. (2023). Federalism and the arbitration of consumer and employment disputes in the United States and Canada: The road not taken? Alberta Law Review, 60(3), 755-794.
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Clover Alcolea, L. (2022). Arbitration of trust disputes. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 320p. doi: 10.4337/9781802201321
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Clover Alcolea, L. (2022). Nothing new under the sun: The case of the illusory trust. New Zealand Universities Law Review, 30(2), 225-245.
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Clover Alcolea, L. (2022). Arbitral activism and choice of law under the ICSID convention. Chinese Journal of International Law, 21(3), 499-546. doi: 10.1093/chinesejil/jmac027
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Clover Alcolea, L. (2022). The rise of the International Commercial Court: A threat to the rule of law? Journal of International Dispute Settlement, 13, 413-442. doi: 10.1093/jnlids/idac022
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Clover Alcolea, L. (2022). Arbitration and the right to have your day in court: Meeting again at the turning of the tide. Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, 22(2), 539-580.
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Clover Alcolea, L. (2020). Trust arbitration: 99 problems and 99 solutions. Trusts & Trustees, 26(3), 260-275. doi: 10.1093/tandt/ttaa003
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Clover Alcolea, L. (2019-2020). The 2005 Hague Choice of Court and the 2019 Hague Judgments Conventions versus the New York Convention: Rivals, alternatives or something else? McGill Journal of Dispute Resolution, 6, 186-215.
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Gélinas, F., & Clover Alcolea, L. (2018). [Review of the book The formation and identification of rules of customary international law in international investment law]. Transnational Dispute Management, 15(1). [Book Review].
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Clover Alcolea, L. (2018). Trust arbitration and the European Convention on Human Rights. Trusts & Trustees, 24(10), 976-984. doi: 10.1093/tandt/tty159
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Gélinas, F., & Clover Alcolea, L. (2017-2018). [Review of the book Compendium of international commercial arbitration forms: Letters, procedural instructions, briefs and other documents]. McGill Journal of Dispute Resolution, 4, 168-170. Retrieved from https://mjdr-rrdm.ca/articles/v4/
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