| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Halliday, Simon
      2025.
      
      Working and writing together - a reflection.
      Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
      76
      
        (RS)
      
      , pp. 88-96.
      
      10.53386/nilq.v76iRS.1225 Item availability restricted. | 
|   | 
| Carr, Helen, Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Keast, Miranda
      
      2025.
      Research into the implications of the Renting Homes Act 2016 for Refuge Accommodation.
      [Project Report].
      Social Research,
      vol. 48/202.
      Cardiff:
      Welsh Government.
      Available at: https://www.gov.wales/research-implications-rentin...   | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Boroumand, Kiana
      2025.
      
      The business of Universities: A case study of halls of residence.
      Critical Social Policy
      45
      
        (2)
      
      , pp. 212-233.
      
      10.1177/02610183241249694   | 
|  | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Cowan, Andrew
      
      2025.
      A review of consumer regulation in social housing.
      [Project Report].
      
      
      
      Unpublished - on file with author. Item availability restricted. | 
|   | 
| Cloatre, Emilie, Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Hammerslev, Ole and Nielsen, Stine Philgaard Porner
      2024.
      
      The object(s) of legality.
      Journal of Law and Society
      51
      
        (S1)
      
      , S30-S34.
      
      10.1111/jols.12513   | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Cowan, Andrew and Turnstones, Consulting Limited
      
      2024.
      The Housing Ombuds Service: Staying in lane?
A housing provider perspective.
      [Project Report].
      
      
      
      Unpublished. | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Marsh, Alex and Harris, Jennifer
      2024.
      
      Local authority intervention in private renting: From compliance to hardline enforcement.
      Journal of Law and Society
      51
      
        (3)
      
      , pp. 390-412.
      
      10.1111/jols.12489   | 
|  | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Wheeler, Sally
      2024.
      Discretion and power.
       Cowan, Sharon and Halliday, Simon, eds.
      
      Socio-legal Generation: Essays in Honour of Michael Adler,
       
      
      
      
       
      Cham: 
      Palgrave Macmillan,
      pp. 55-75.
      (10.1007/978-3-031-67244-6_4) | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      2024.
      Home: socio-legal interventions.
       Jacobs, Keith, Flanagan, Kathleen, De Vries, Jacqueline and MacDonald, Emma, eds.
      
      Research Handbook on Housing, the Home and Society,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Edward Elgar,
      pp. 109-121.
      (10.4337/9781800375970.00015) | 
|   | 
| Cloatre, Emilie and Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      2024.
      
      Displacements: Objects and relationality.
      Law & Society Review
      58
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 63-68.
      
      10.1017/lsr.2023.9   | 
|  | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Tomlinson, Joe
      2023.
      
      Crisis relief? Public resources and judicial review remedies.
      Public Law
      2023
      
        (3)
      
      , pp. 495-509. | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Hardy, Barbara
      2023.
      
      Charitable purposes and the shaping effects of money.
      International Journal of Law in Context
      19
      
        (2)
      
      , pp. 161-176.
      
      10.1017/S1744552322000313   | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Fox O'Mahony, Lorna and Cobb, Neil
      
      
      2023.
      Great debates in land law. 3rd Edition.
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      Bloomsbury. | 
|   | 
| Carr, Helen, Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Kirton-Darling, Ed
      2022.
      
      Marginalisation, Grenfell Tower and the voice of the social-housing resident: A critical juncture in housing law and policy?
      International Journal of Law in Context
      18
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 10-24.
      
      10.1017/S1744552322000088   | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and McDermont, Morag
      
      
      2021.
      Regulating social housing: Governing decline.
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      Taylor and Francis.
      10.4324/9781003210832 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Hardy, Barbara
      2021.
      
      Governing canal life.
      Journal of Law and Society
      48
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 40-59.
      
      10.1111/jols.12277 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Hardy, Barbara
      2019.
      
      Regulating home: a case study.
      Housing, Theory and Society
      37
      
        (5)
      
      , pp. 597-614.
      
      10.1080/14036096.2019.1683066 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      
      
      2019.
      Homelessness: The (in)appropriate applicant.
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
      London:
      Routledge.
      10.4324/9780429399343 | 
|   | 
| Cloatre, E. and Cowan, D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      2019.
      ‘Indefensible and irresponsible’: Interdisciplinarity, truth and #reviewer2.
       Creutzfeldt, N., Mason, M. and McConnachie, K., eds.
      
      Routledge Handbook of Socio-Legal Theory and Methods,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Routledge,
      pp. 97-109.
      (10.4324/9780429952814-7) | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      2019.
      
      Reducing homelessness or re-ordering the deckchairs?
      Modern Law Review
      82
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 105-128.
      
      10.1111/1468-2230.12390 | 
|   | 
| Cloatre, E. and Cowan, D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      2018.
      Legalities and materialities.
       Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, A., ed.
      
      Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      
      pp. 433-452.
      (10.4324/9781315665733) | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Marsh, Alex
      2018.
      
      A perennial problem? On underoccupation in English council housing.
      Housing Studies
      34
      
        (2)
      
      , pp. 319-337.
      
      10.1080/02673037.2018.1487928 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Carr, Helen and Wallace, Alison
      2018.
      Managing shared ownership.
       Cowan, David, Carr, Helen and Wallace, Alison, eds.
      
      Ownership, Narrative, Things,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Palgrave Macmillan,
      pp. 99-126.
      (10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5_4) | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Carr, Helen and Wallace, Alison
      2018.
      Shared ownership and housing policy.
       Cowan, David, Carr, Helen and Wallace, Alison, eds.
      
      Ownership, Narrative, Things,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Palgrave Macmillan,
      pp. 43-71.
      (10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5_2) | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Carr, Helen and Wallace, Alison
      2018.
      Assembling shared ownership.
       Cowan, David, Carr, Helen and Wallace, Alison, eds.
      
      Ownership, Narrative, Things,
       
      Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies,
      
      
       
      
      Palgrave Macmillan,
      pp. 179-206.
      (10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5_7) | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Carr, Helen and Wallace, Alison
      2018.
      Experiencing shared ownership.
       Cowan, David, Carr, Helen and Wallace, Alison, eds.
      
      Ownership, Narrative, Things,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Palgrave Macmillan,
      pp. 157-178.
      (10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5_6) | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Carr, Helen and Wallace, Alison
      2018.
      Selling and buying shared ownership.
       Cowan, David, Carr, Helen and Wallace, Alison, eds.
      
      Ownership, Narrative, Things,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Palgrave Macmillan,
      pp. 127-155.
      (10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5_5) | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Carr, Helen and Wallace, Alison
      2018.
      Messiness and techniques of simplification.
       Cowan, David, Carr, Helen and Wallace, Alison, eds.
      
      Ownership, Narrative, Things,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Palgrave Macmillan,
      pp. 207-215.
      (10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5_8) | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Carr, Helen and Wallace, Alison
      
      
      2018.
      Ownership, narrative, things.
      
      
      
      
      Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies,
      
      
      
      Palgrave Macmillan.
      10.1057/978-1-137-59069-5 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Helen, Carr and Alison, Wallace
      2017.
      
      “Thank heavens for the lease”: histories of shared ownership.
      Housing Studies
      33
      
        (6)
      
      , pp. 855-875.
      
      10.1080/02673037.2017.1408782 | 
|   | 
| Carr, Helen, Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Alison, Wallace
      2017.
      
      Producing the product: a case study of law and its absence.
      Journal of Law and Society
      44
      
        (S1)
      
      , S93-S110.
      
      10.1111/jols.12051 | 
|   | 
| Carr, Helen and Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      2016.
      
      What's the use of a hashtag? a case study.
      Journal of Law and Society
      43
      
        (3)
      
      , pp. 416-443.
      
      10.1111/j.1467-6478.2016.00761.x | 
|   | 
| Bevan, Chris and Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      2016.
      
      Uses of macro social theory: a social housing case study.
      Modern Law Review
      79
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 76-101.
      
      10.1111/1468-2230.12167 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      2012.
      Housing and Property.
       Cane, P. and Kritzer, H.M., eds.
      
      The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Oxford Academic,
      pp. 331-352.
      (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199542475.013.0015) | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Hunter, Caroline and Pawson, Hal
      2012.
      
      Jurisdiction and scale: rent arrears, social housing, and human rights.
      Journal of Law and Society
      39
      
        (2)
      
      , pp. 269-295.
      
      10.1111/j.1467-6478.2012.00581.x | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Hunter, Caroline
      2011.
      
      ‘Yeah but, no but’ -Pinnock and Powell in the Supreme Court.
      Modern Law Review
      75
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 78-91.
      
      10.1111/j.1468-2230.2012.00889.x | 
|   | 
| McDermont, Morag, Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Prendergrast, Jessica
      2009.
      
      Structuring governance: a case study of the new organizational provision of public service delivery.
      Critical Social Policy
      29
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 677-702.
      
      10.1177/0261018309341899 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Carr, Helen
      2008.
      
      Actor-network theory, implementation, and the private landlord.
      Journal of Law and Society
      35
      
        (s1)
      
      , pp. 149-166.
      
      10.1111/j.1467-6478.2008.00430.x | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Hitchings, Emma
      2007.
      
      `Pretty boring stuff': district judges and housing possession proceedings.
      Social and Legal Studies
      16
      
        (3)
      
      , pp. 363-382.
      
      10.1177/0964663907079764 | 
|   | 
| Carr, Helen, Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Hunter, Caroline
      2007.
      
      Policing the housing crisis.
      Critical Social Policy
      27
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 100-127.
      
      10.1177/0261018307072209 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Blandy, Sarah, Hitchings, Emma, Hunter, Caroline and Nixon, Judy
      2006.
      
      District judges and possession proceedings.
      Journal of Law and Society
      33
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 547-571.
      
      10.1111/j.1467-6478.2006.00370.x | 
|   | 
| Carr, H. and Cowan, D.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      2006.
      Labelling: Constructing definitions of anti-social behaviour?
       Flint, J., ed.
      
      Housing, urban governance and anti-social behaviour: Perspectives, policy and practice,
       
      
      
      
       
      
      Oxford Academic,
      pp. 57-78.
      (10.1332/policypress/9781861346858.003.0004) | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Halliday, Simon and Hunter, Caroline
      2006.
      
      Adjudicating the implementation of homelessness law: the promise of socio-legal studies.
      Housing Studies
      21
      
        (3)
      
      , pp. 381-400.
      
      10.1080/02673030600586019 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Marsh, Alex
      2006.
      
      From need to choice, welfarism to advanced liberalism? problematics of social housing allocation.
      Legal Studies
      25
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 22-48.
      
      10.1111/j.1748-121x.2005.tb00269.x | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      2004.
      
      Legal consciousness: some observations.
      Modern Law Review
      67
      
        (6)
      
      , pp. 928-958.
      
      10.1111/j.1468-2230.2004.00518.x | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Marsh, Alex
      2004.
      
      Community, neighbourhood, responsibility: contemporary currents in housing studies.
      Housing Studies
      19
      
        (6)
      
      , pp. 845-853.
      
      10.1080/0267303042000293964 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Marsh, Alex
      2004.
      
      From need to choice: R(A) v Lambeth LBC; R(Lindsay) v Lambeth LBC.
      Modern Law Review
      67
      
        (3)
      
      , pp. 478-490.
      
      10.1111/j.1468-2230.2004.496_1.x | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      2003.
      
      `Rage at Westsinster': sociolegal reflections on the power of sale.
      Social and Legal Studies
      12
      
        (2)
      
      , pp. 177-198.
      
      10.1177/0964663903012002002 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Lomax, Delia
      2003.
      
      Policing unauthorized camping.
      Journal of Law and Society
      30
      
        (2)
      
      , pp. 283-308.
      
      10.1111/1467-6478.00257 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Pantazis, Christina and Gilroy, Rose
      2001.
      
      Social housing as crime control: an examination of the role of housing management in policing sex offenders.
      Social and Legal Studies
      10
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 435-457.
      
      10.1177/a020305 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Marsh, Alex
      2001.
      
      New Labour, same old Tory housing policy?
      Modern Law Review
      64
      
        (2)
      
      , pp. 260-279.
      
      10.1111/1468-2230.00319 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Marsh, Alex
      2000.
      
      There’s regulatory crime, and then there’s landlord crime: from ‘Rachmanites’ to ‘partners’.
      Modern Law Review
      64
      
        (6)
      
      , pp. 855-874.
      
      10.1111/1468-2230.00355 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262, Gilroy, Rose and Pantazis, Christina
      1999.
      
      Risking housing need.
      Journal of Law and Society
      26
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 403-426.
      
      10.1111/1467-6478.00134 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      1998.
      
      Reforming the homelessness legislation.
      Critical social policy
      18
      
        (57)
      
      , pp. 435-464.
      
      10.1177/026101839801805701 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      1995.
      
      Community care and homelessness: R v Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council, ex parte B.
      The Modern Law Review
      58
      
        (2)
      
      , pp. 256-261.
      
      10.1111/j.1468-2230.1995.tb02008.x | 
|   | 
| Cowan, Dave  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      1995.
      
      HIV and homelessness: lobbying, law, policy and practice.
      Journal of social welfare & family law
      17
      
        (1)
      
      , pp. 43-66.
      
      10.1080/09649069508413635 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David S.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Fionda, Julia
      1994.
      
      Meeting the need: the response of local authorities' housing departments to the housing of ex-offenders.
      British Journal of Criminology
      34
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 444-458.
      
      10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a048446 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Fionda, Julia
      1994.
      
      Back to basics: the government's homelessness consultation paper.
      The Modern Law Review
      57
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 610-619.
      
      10.1111/j.1468-2230.1994.tb01962.x | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David S.  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262 and Fionda, Julia
      1993.
      
      New angles on homelessness.
      Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
      15
      
        (6)
      
      , pp. 403-416.
      
      10.1080/09649069308412416 | 
|   | 
| Cowan, David  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9750-8262
      1993.
      
      The public/private dichotomy and “suitable accommodation” under section 69(1) of the housing act 1985.
      Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law
      15
      
        (4)
      
      , pp. 236-247.
      
      10.1080/09649069308412396 | 
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