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.
Publications
Clover Alcolea, L. (2024). ‘The King[’s] Courts as the fountain of justice’ and the supremacy of ordinary law: Implications for English arbitration. Arbitration International. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1093/arbint/aiae029 Journal - Research Article
Clover Alcolea, L., & Mihal, J. (2023, December). The tiptoe to crypto: An analysis and account of property rights in cryptocurrency [Invited]. Verbal presentation at the Private and Commercial Law Annual Conference, Perth, Australia. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Clover Alcolea, L. (2023). States as masters of (investment) treaties: The rise of joint interpretative statements. Chinese Journal of International Law, 22(3), 479-527. doi: 10.1093/chinesejil/jmad030 Journal - Research Article
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. Journal - Research Article
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. Journal - Research Article