Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock

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l.finchett-maddock@bangor.ac.uk

Dr Lucy Finchett-Maddock

Lucy joined Bangor as Reader in Law and Artistic Research 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 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 British Art Network funded project in collaboration with Anders Hulkvist (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, 2025) (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

Instrumenting(s):  Accounting a Series of Repetitive Beats, with D. Hignell-Tully and A. Hultkvist, Amicus Curiae, Series 2, 6(2) (2025) 472-488.

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), 251-262.

(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.

I am open to supervising PhD projects in areas related to my research with a particular interest in practice-based approaches relating to connections between art and law; and / or critical legal, contemporary theoretical and philosophical approaches to law.

2025

  • E-gyhoeddi cyn argraffu
    Finchett-Maddock, L., Hignell-Tull, D. & Hultkvist, A., 7 Chwef 2025, (E-gyhoeddi cyn argraffu) Yn: Amicus Curiae. 6, 2, t. 472-488
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 12 Chwef 2025, Yn: Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. 30, 1, t. 121-145
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2024

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 2024
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad arall › Cyfraniad Arall

2023

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., Meh 2023, Yn: Law, Culture and the Humanities. 19, 2, t. 320–351
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2022

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L. & Tan, J. K., 15 Tach 2022, Yn: Law and Humanities. 16, 2, t. 156-164
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2021

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 18 Meh 2021, Voices on Law and Activism: Addressing The Work of Adam Gearey.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2020

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L. (Golygydd) & Lekakis, E. (Golygydd), 28 Chwef 2020, Counterpress. 328 t.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L. (Golygydd) & Lekakis, E. (Golygydd), 28 Chwef 2020, Counterpress. 328 t.
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  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 3 Rhag 2020.
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2019

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    Finchett-Maddock, L., 11 Gorff 2019, The Palgrave Handbook on Art Crime. Palgrave Macmillan
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2018

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    Finchett-Maddock, L., 16 Awst 2018, Routledge Handbook of Law and Theory. Routledge
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 31 Gorff 2018, Complexity theory & law: mapping an emergent jurisprudence. Routledge, t. 213-233
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2017

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    Finchett-Maddock, L., 2017, The Conscious Lawyer.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyhoeddiad arbenigol › Erthygl
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 1 Mai 2017, The Conscious Lawyer.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyhoeddiad arbenigol › Erthygl
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 24 Tach 2017, Research Methods in Environmental Law: A Handbook. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 17 Meh 2017, Yn: Socialist Lawyer. 76, t. 40-45
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2016

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L. & Lambert, L., 1 Mai 2016, ARCH+, Legislating Architecture.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyhoeddiad arbenigol › Erthygl
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 18 Maw 2016, Routledge. 261 t.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Llyfr/Adroddiad › Llyfr › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 30 Tach 2016, Regulating the City: Contemporary Urban Housing Law. Eleven International Publishing
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2014

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L. & Lambert, L., 2014, The Funambulist Pamphlets, Legal Theory.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyhoeddiad arbenigol › Erthygl
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 2014, Yn: Journal of Planning and Environmental Law.
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    Finchett-Maddock, L., 2014, Yn: Lo Squaderno.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 2014, Yn: Urban Studies. t. 1-3
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl adolygu › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 2014, The City is Ours.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 2014, Vulnerable Demons? Moral Rhetoric and the Criminalisation of Squatting. 1st gol. Routledge
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2013

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 24 Gorff 2013, Yn: Journal of Environmental Law. 25, 2, t. 293-304
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid
  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 2013, Disobedience: Concept and Practice . 1st gol.
    Allbwn ymchwil: Pennod mewn Llyfr/Adroddiad/Trafodion Cynhadledd › Pennod › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2012

  • Cyhoeddwyd
    Finchett-Maddock, L., 2012, Yn: Law and Critique. 23, t. 199-217
    Allbwn ymchwil: Cyfraniad at gyfnodolyn › Erthygl › adolygiad gan gymheiriaid

2011

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    Finchett-Maddock, L., 2011, Corporate Watch.
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2010

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    Finchett-Maddock, L., 2010, Part 1 Papers from the Zürich Conference. t. 31-52 (Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law).
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2008

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    Finchett-Maddock, L., 2008, Yn: Philosophy of Management. 7, 1, t. 21-31
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Lucy is Civic Engagement Lead for the School of History, Law and Social Sciences.