Tola Amodu

Tola Amodu is an Associate Professor in the Law School of the University of East Anglia and a member of its Centre for Competition Policy. She is a practising Solicitor of the Senior Courts and has worked in both local and central government, where she was a member of the Public Law Team as a Government Lawyer for the Law Commission of England and Wales. Tola has research interests in Housing, Town Planning, Land Law and regulation (she is also a legal member of the Royal Town Planning Institute RTPI). Current recent publications include:

(2018) "Regulating the private rented sector: millennial themes", Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law, Vol. 10 Issue: 2, pp.154-168, https://doi.org/10.1108/

(2019) “A coalition of the (un)willing? The convergence of landlord and renter interests in the “right to rent” ", Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law, Vol. 11 Issue: 2 10.1108/JPPEL-03-2019-0012
(2020) Revisiting the rules. The pervasiveness of discretion in the context of planning gains: the case of the Community Infrastructure Levy. Public Law 643-661
(2024) "Opening Pandora's box? Capturing the edifice of ‘hopefulness’ in the private rented sector" Legal Studies 0261-3875
(2025) "Hope in Property (or the "Hopefulness" of Property)" Special Issue on Hope in Law (2025) LSE Law, Society and Economy Working Papers: 26/2025