Contact
Tel +64 3 479 8830
Email lucas.cloveralcolea@otago.ac.nz
Teaching
- Property, Wills and Trusts
Research interests
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.