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Martin John Dixon FRSA is a British academic lawyer. He is Professor of the Law of Real Propertyat the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge. He is Director of the Cambridge Centre for Property Law and an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. He was awarded the University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching in 2004. He was previously a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge and a Legal Officer for the UNRWA based in Vienna and Gaza City.
He attended Cynffig Comprehesive School and Keble College, Oxford, before teaching at Trinity College, Oxford prior to moving to Robinson College, Cambridge. He moved to Queens' College in 2000. He also teaches Land Law for the GDL at City University, London and for the London University LLB at Hong Kong University.
Dixon's work focuses primarily on the law of registered title, especially the Land Registration Act 2002, proprietary estoppel and the organic development of land law as a social and economic tool.
Published works
He is the author (with HH Judge Stuart Bridge and Judge Elizabeth Cooke) of Meggary & Wade: The Law of Real Property(9th ed 2019), an editor of Ruoff and Roper: The Law and Practice of Registered Conveyancing, and the General Editor of The Conveyancerand Property Lawyer. His Modern Land Law, a student text, is in its 11th edition.
