Professor Adelyn Wilson

Professor Adelyn Wilson is the Head of Strathclyde Law School and a Professor of Law.

She joined Strathclyde in July 2023 from the University of Aberdeen, where she was a Professor of Law and the Dean for International Stakeholder Engagement with a portfolio in international student recruitment on a pan-institutional basis. In that capacity, she led various initiatives, including: introducing a governance and approvals framework for decision-making on commission and discounting arrangements; revising approval processes for new and renewed international partnerships; revising governance structures for the anchor partnership in the University's International Study Centre; strategies for institutional student scholarships, student recruitment post-Brexit and the student-focused response to the war in Ukraine; the English language testing policy; changes to the academic year structure on the student recruitment side; and short and long-term student population growth modelling projects.

Her research interests span medical law, legal history, and private and public law. Her work has appeared in various leading publications, and she has presented her research in ten countries. She is Deputy Editor of the Edinburgh Law Review, and was formerly an Academic Fellow of the Scottish Parliament and advised the European Scrutiny Committee of the UK Parliament on Retained EU Law and parliamentary scrutiny during and after Brexit, an editor of Comparative Legal History, and a trustee or council member of five intellectual charities. She has appeared on the BBC Antiques Roadshow, STV Scotland Tonight, BBC Radio North East and Northsound One News, and has advised BBC News Reality Check. Her research and funded networks have been supported by Horizon 2020/Marie Curie, the British Council, the Bibliographical Society, and other organisations.

Adelyn has taught legal history, medical law, commercial law, across the breadth of private law and on interdisciplinary and skills-based courses. She has been an external examiner for three UK universities, an appeals assessor for a Norwegian university, and an external consultant to design a QA framework for ABA Accreditation for a US university. She has taught for partner institutions internationally in the USA, Norway, China, Qatar and India. She won Aberdeen’s Excellence Award for Best PGR Supervisor, and was nominated for Best UG Lecturer, Best UG Supervisor and Most Inspiring Lecturer.