Andy Hayward Email and Phone Number

Andy’s research interests lie in family law, property law, equity and legal history (especially the history of family law). His research critically analyses the legal regulation of formalised and non-formalised adult relationships and, in particular, the property consequences generated by their breakdown. Andy is an expert in the field of cohabitation law and policy. In 2021 he was appointed Specialist Advisor to the Women and Equalities Committee Inquiry on the Rights of Cohabiting Partners. With Professor Jens Scherpe at the University of Aalborg in Denmark, he is currently completing a major global study of cohabitation law surveying the legal regimes in 36 jurisdictions. This will be published by Intersentia in 2024 as The Legal Status of De Facto Relationships. Andy is also the lead coordinator for the Family Law Reform Now Project specialising in cohabitation law. His work on cohabitation builds upon earlier projects exploring the reform of civil partnerships in England and Wales and, in particular, the extension of such relationship status to opposite-sex couples. Drawing upon insights from comparative family law, he published with Professor Jens Scherpe an edited collection with Intersentia in 2017 entitled The Future of Registered Partnerships - Family Recognition beyond Marriage? Andy also researches family property law, especially the 'familialisation of property law' alongside the development of both the common intention constructive trust and proprietary estoppel. This research has been cited favourably extra-judicially by Lord Kerr, Justice of the Supreme Court. With Professor Margaret Briggs of the University of Otago, he will publish in 2024 an edited collection 'Family Property and the Law' with Edward Elgar.Andy has held several visiting positions at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium), the Institut de Droit Comparé Edouard Lambert, Université Jean Moulin III, Lyon (France) and the University of Cambridge (Faculty of Law and Bye-Fellow at Robinson College). He is also an Academic Fellow of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple.Andy has teaching expertise on the modules of family law, land law, equity & trusts and legal history (especially Married Women’s Property). He has received the University Excellence in Learning and Teaching Award in 2016 and nominations for Lecturer of the Year by Durham University’s Student Union.