Publication of the week:

ROWENA MEAGER

Monday 15 June 2009

Rowena Meager, "Equity" and "Trusts", Oxford Dictionary of Law (7th ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). ISBN: 978-0-19-955124-8.

Rowena Meager is a contributor to the new (7th) edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Law which was published by Oxford University Press on 11 June 2009. She was responsible for revising and contributing to the "Equity" and "Trusts" entries (having also been responsible for the same in the 6th edition of this work in 2006).

The Oxford Dictionary of Law is a best-selling legal dictionary which contains more than 4,200 entries covering all the major legal terms, concepts and processes of English law. It is essential for law students, lecturers, legal professionals, and anyone needing clear definitions of legal terms, and has been described by leading university lecturers as "the best law dictionary".

Rowena joined Buckingham Law School in September 2008 following successful completion of a pupillage at a leading set of chancery chambers in Lincoln's Inn. Prior to undertaking pupillage she was, for a number of years, a Lecturer in Law at New College, Oxford, for whom she continues to teach the Law of Trusts. Whilst she chose to return to academia as her predominant profession Rowena is also a practising Door Tenant at Harcourt Chambers (Temple, London & Oxford), specialising in real property matters. She has a particular interest in the law relating to the registration of new greens. Rowena has written a number of pieces for publication in the field of both Land Law and Trusts and continues to engage actively in research in a variety of areas of property law.