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Lucy joined Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÒÅÆ×ÊÁÏ as Reader in Law in 2022.  Prior to joining, Lucy was Senior Lecturer in Law and Art at Sussex Law School (2013-2022), and held positions at Birkbeck School of Law University of London (2007-2012) and Exeter Law School (2012-2013).  Lucy has been a visiting scholar and researcher at Law School, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Jul 2023); WZB, Social Science Research Institute Berlin (Jun 2013), amongst others.

Lucy’s research is broadly concerned with critical legal and contemporary philosophical understandings of law in relation to questions of practice and materialism.  Themes of aesthetics, property, entropy and resistance are key within Lucy's work.

Always with a desire to apply theory to practice, Lucy's work has focused in recent years on methodological and practice-based questions around the intersection of art, law, resistance and property (see 'Art' - New Trajectories in Law Series (series editors Adam Gearey and Colin Perrin) (forthcoming, 2024) (London, Routledge).

Since 2015 Lucy has been involved in developing the Economic and Social Resaerch Council and Socio-Legal Studies Association funded '', a meeting space between artists, activists, lawyers, practitioners and other such agitators. 

Part of Lucy's work is practice-based, including working with sound, video, sculpture and data sets, as part of project in collaboration with Anders Hulkjvist (University of Gothenburg) and Dann Hignell-Tully (Distant Animals). The practice-based element of her work is inspired by whose work seeks to capture ontological questions around artificial and formal divides – the human/machine, subject/object, divisions between art and law.

Underlying her work is a philosophical probing of the nature of property, materiality and entropic forces of change. This culminated in monograph '' (Routledge, 2016) which theorises the intersection of property within law and resistance, interrogating the spatio-temporality and aesthetics of formal and informal laws, property (squatting and housing), commons and protest. Lucy uses the thermodynamic property 'entropy' to explain linear and nonlinear relations of matter, law, resistance, aesthetics informed by speculative realism, historical and new materialist philosophy and complexity theory.

l.finchett-maddock@bangor.ac.uk

Lucy is the convenor of LLM module Contemporary Issues in International Environmental Law, and undergraduate module Environmental Law.  She also convenes undergraduate module Law, Justice and Rights.

Select Works

Books and Edited Collections

Art - New Trajectories in Law Series (series editors Adam Gearey and Colin Perrin) (forthcoming, 2024) (London, Routledge)

Special Edition Law and Humanities with Jack Ky Tan (2022) 16(2) 156-280

(2020) with Eleftheria Lekakis (London, Counterpress)

(2016) Social Justice Books Series (London, Routledge)

Articles and Book Chapters

Inside-Out: Autonomy, Formalism and the Legal Architectures of Outsider Art, in Sofia Stolk, Renske Vols, and Miriam Bak McKenna (eds.), International Law and Architecture (Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming, 2025)

, in Helen Palmer and Charlie Blake (eds.) Special Issue, Thalatta! Thalatta! THE SEA, Angelaki:  Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (forthcoming, 2025)

Urban Surfaces Definition in Sabina Andron, Konstantinos Avramidis, Tom Ward (eds.), Urban Surfaces Research Network Volume 3. 2024. 16-19

with Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos in Helen Dancer, Bonnie Holligan and Helena Howe (eds.) Earth Law Judgments Project (Hart, 2024)

(2023) Nuart Journal 4(1) 24-35

(2023) Law Culture and the Humanities 19(2) 320-351

(2022) in Lucy Finchett-Maddock and Jack Ky Tan (eds.) Special Edition Law and Humanities 16(2) 156-164

(2021) in Maria Grahn Farley (ed.) Adam Gearey's Voices on Law and Activism: Addressing the Work of Adam Gearey (Uppsala, De Lege) 141-168

 (2019) in D. Chappell and Saskia Hufnagel (eds.) Art Crime Handbook (London, Palgrave MacMillan) 855-880

 (2018) in Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos (ed.) Handbook of Law and Theory (London, Routledge) 104-123

 (2018) in Tom Webb and Stephen Wheatley (eds.) Complexity Theory & Law: Mapping an Emergent Jurisprudence, Law, Science and Society Series (London, Routledge) 213-233

(2018) in Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos and Victoria Brooks (eds.) ‘esearch Methods in Law Series (Handbook of Research Methods in Environmental Law) (London, Edward Elgar Publishing) 104-130

 (2016) in M. Vols and J. Sidoli del Ceno (eds.) Regulating the City: Contemporary Urban Housing Law (The Hague, Eleven Publishing) 81-107

(2016), with Léopold Lambert ARCH+ Legislating Architecture Berlin May 14-20 14-21

(2013) in Elena Loizidou (ed.) Disobedience: Concept and Practice (London, Routledge) 83-97

(2012) Law and Critique 23(3) 199-217

2024

• Accepted/In press
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2024
  Research output: Other contribution

2023

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., Jun 2023, In: Law, Culture and the Humanities. 19, 2, p. 320–351
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L. & Tan, J. K., 15 Nov 2022, In: Law and Humanities. 16, 2, p. 156-164
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 18 Jun 2021, Voices on Law and Activism: Addressing The Work of Adam Gearey.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2020

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L. (Editor) & Lekakis, E. (Editor), 28 Feb 2020, Counterpress. 328 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L. (Editor) & Lekakis, E. (Editor), 28 Feb 2020, Counterpress. 328 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 3 Dec 2020.
  Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper

2019

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 11 Jul 2019, The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime. Palgrave Macmillan
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2018

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 16 Aug 2018, Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory. Routledge
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 31 Jul 2018, Complexity theory & law: mapping an emergent jurisprudence. Routledge, p. 213-233
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2017

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2017, The Conscious Lawyer.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 1 May 2017, The Conscious Lawyer.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 24 Nov 2017, Research Methods in Environmental Law: A Handbook. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 17 Jun 2017, In: Socialist Lawyer. 76, p. 40-45
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2016

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L. & Lambert, L., 1 May 2016, ARCH+, Legislating Architecture.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 18 Mar 2016, Routledge. 261 p.
  Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 30 Nov 2016, Regulating the City: Contemporary Urban Housing Law. Eleven International Publishing
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2014

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L. & Lambert, L., 2014, The Funambulist Pamphlets, Legal Theory.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2014, In: Journal of Planning and Environmental Law.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2014, In: Lo Squaderno.
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2014, In: Urban Studies. p. 1-3
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2014, The City is Ours.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2014, Vulnerable Demons? Moral Rhetoric and the Criminalisation of Squatting. 1st ed. Routledge
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2013

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 24 Jul 2013, In: Journal of Environmental Law. 25, 2, p. 293-304
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2013, Disobedience: Concept and Practice . 1st ed.
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review

2012

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2012, In: Law and Critique. 23, p. 199-217
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2011

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2011, Corporate Watch.
  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

2010

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2010, Part 1 Papers from the Zürich Conference. p. 31-52 (Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law).
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

2008

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2008, In: Philosophy of Management. 7, 1, p. 21-31
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

Lucy is Civic Engagement Lead for the School of History, Law and Social Sciences.