Lorna Fox O'Mahony is Professor of Law at Essex Law School and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex. Her research explores a wide range of property issues using cross-disciplinary methods. She is author or editor of several books, including Conceptualising Home: Theories, Laws and Policies (2006), which was awarded the Society of Legal Scholars' Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship (2007). Marc Roark is the Louisiana Outside Counsel of Health and Ethics Endowed Professor of Law at the Southern University Law Center. His is also a Senior Fellow at the Native American Law and Policy Institute at Southern University. He has published widely on issues at the intersection of property, housing, homelessness and identity. He is a member of the EVICT research network and serves on the Advisory Panel for the UNESCO Housing Chair at the Universität Rovira I Virgilli, Tarragona, Spain.