Martin John Dixon, KC (Hon) FAcSS is a British academic lawyer. He is Professor of the Law of Real Property at the

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and a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge. He is Director of the Cambridge Centre for Property Law and an Honorary Bencher of

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. He was awarded the University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching in 2004. He was previously a Fellow of

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and a Legal Officer for the

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based in Vienna and

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. He attended Cynffig Comprehensive School and

Keble College, Oxford Keble College () is one of the Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. Its main buildings are on Parks Road, opposite the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, University Museum a ...

, before teaching at

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prior to moving to

. He moved to Queens' College in 2000. He also teaches

Land Law Land law is the form of law that deals with the rights to use, alienate, or exclude others from land. In many jurisdictions, these kinds of property are referred to as real estate or real property, as distinct from personal property. Land use ...

for the GDL at City University, London and for the London University LLB at

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Published works

He is the author (with HH Judge Stuart Bridge and Judge Elizabeth Cooke) of Megarry & Wade: The Law of Real Property'' (9th ed 2019), an editor of ''Ruoff and Roper: The Law and Practice of Registered Conveyancing,'' and the General Editor of ''The Conveyancer and Property Lawyer''. His ''Modern Land Law'', a student text, is in its 11th edition.

References

External links

Cambridge Centre for Property Law/

Cambridge Law Faculty
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dixon, Martin Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Alumni of Keble College, Oxford British legal scholars Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge