John Mee

Professor John Mee is a graduate of UCC (BCL 1986; LLM 1987), Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto (LLM 1989), Trinity College Dublin (PhD 1997) and the National University of Ireland (LLD 2021). He was called to the Irish Bar in 1990. He began lecturing in the UCC Law Department in 1989 and was Dean of the Faculty of Law at UCC from 1999-2000. His research interests are in the areas of Land Law, Equity and Trusts and Family Property, with a special interest in law reform in these areas (and a developing interest in legal history). He has published three books, The Property Rights of Cohabitees (1999), Law and Taxation of Trusts (with Keogan and Wylie, 2007) and Land Law (with Pearce, 3rd ed, 2011), as well as articles and chapters in Irish and international journals and edited collections. He is an academic member of the English Chancery Bar Association.

Land Law, Equity and Trusts, Family Property (including the Rights and Duties of Cohabitants). My research work covers three main areas: equity and trusts, family property and the law of real property. My approach is primarily doctrinal, with a strong comparative dimension. I have broadened my focus in more recent years, to include a consideration of law reform and related policy issues. I have also begun to concern myself more with legal history in my areas of interest. Three of my publications were cited in the UK Supreme Court case of Guest v Guest [2022] UKSC 27. My work has also been cited in the Supreme Court of Canada (see Kerr v Baranow [2011] 1 SCR 269, 2011 SCC 10); the Singapore Court of Appeal (see Chan Yuen Lan v See Fong Mun [2014] SGCA 36 [44] and [135]); the Singapore High Court (Lim Chin San Contractors Pte Ltd v Shiok Kim Seng (trading as IKO Precision Toolings) [2012] SGHC 105, quoting a paragraph of text); the High Court of New South Wales (Ledgerwood v Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd (1997) 41 New South Wales Law Reports 532); the South Australian High Court (Re Thiel [2017] SASC 1); the New Zealand High Court (Equiticorp Industries Group Ltd v The Crown [1998] 2 NZLR 481, 624-625, quoting 9 lines of text); the Irish Supreme Court (Corrigan v Corrigan [2016] IESC 56); and the Irish High Court (e.g. Mahon v Lawlor [2008] IEHC 284; O’Malley v Breen [2019] IEHC 645). An early influential work of mine is The Property Rights of Cohabitees: An Analysis of Equity's Response in Five Common Law Jurisdictions (Hart, 1999). This comparative work was reviewed in fourteen journals. A flavour of the reviews is provided by the following ex

Land Law (including Law of Succession); Equity and Trusts, Cohabitation and the Law