Dr Bróna McNeill

Bróna is a lecturer in the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast. Bróna’s research area is property and sustainability, looking specifically at the ways in which property shapes environmental outcomes. Bróna has conducted extensive research on agricultural land ownership in Ireland and has published a chapter in Modern Studies in Property Law exploring the agricultural system of conacre. Bróna has expertise in land rights and property ideology across the island of Ireland, as well as environmental law broadly defined. Bróna is also working on other projects that expand on the idea of reconceptualizing property. For example, she is researching Rights of Nature as a means of addressing environmental crises, and how this approach might interact with property rights, both on the island of Ireland and further afield. She is also working with colleagues at Queen’s University on a project exploring the problem of food waste by consumers, and the role that a changed understanding of ownership might play in helping address this issue.
QUB profile available here.