Browse by Current Cardiff authors

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 Unpublished - on file with author.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 Unpublished.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