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).

Introduction Squatters, Scale, and the State; Part I. Squatting and the State: 1. States, narratives, and norms; 2. Squatting and the law; 3. Property theory and the state; 4. Scaling the state; Part II. Resilient Property in an Age of Crises: 5. Resilient property methodology; 6. Possession, pragmatism, and homeless squatting; 7. Ownership and absent owners; 8. Aggregate interests ¿ neighborhoods, markets, and social movements; Part III. Resilient Property in Action: 9. Scaling resilience and the state; 10. Postscript: Resilient property and the pandemic; Bibliography; Index.