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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.

2025

• Accepted/In press
  Finchett-Maddock, L., Dec 2025, International Law and Architecture. Vos, R., Stolk, S. & McKenna, M. B. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
• E-pub ahead of print
  Finchett-Maddock, L., Hignell-Tull, D. & Hultkvist, A., 7 Feb 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Amicus Curiae. 6, 2, p. 472-488
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 12 Feb 2025, In: Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. 30, 1, p. 121-145
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2024

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 2024
  Research output: Other contribution

2023

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., Jun 2023, In: Law, Culture and the Humanities. 19, 2, p. 320–351
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2022

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L. & Tan, J. K., 15 Nov 2022, In: Law and Humanities. 16, 2, p. 156-164
  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

2021

• Published
  Finchett-Maddock, L., 18 Jun 2021, Voices on Law