| Name | Areas of expertise |
Projects Welcome
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| Dominic Aitken |
- punishment and penal policy
- imprisonment and immigration detention
- criminal law and criminal justice
- criminological theory
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- punishment and penal policy
- imprisonment and immigration detention
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| Malcolm Combe |
- property law
- land law (particularly public access to land, land reform, and landlord and tenant law)
- commercial law
- access to justice
- clinical legal education
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- Scottish land reform
- Scots property law
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| Antonio Cardesa-Salzmann |
- international & EU environmental law
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| Pablo Grez Hidalgo |
- constitutional & administrative law
- non-judicial mechanism of constitutional and legal review
- parliamentary accountability
- The role of Law in Public Health Emergencies.
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- political accountability
- non-judicial review
- Scottish constitutional reform
- Scottish Parliamentary committees and accountability
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| Sylvie Da Lomba |
- international refugee law
- immigration & asylum law
- EU immigration & asylum law & policy
- migrants' rights
- human rights
- social & economic rights
- EU law
|
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| Michelle Donnelly |
- child and family law;
- child justice
- child protection
- childhood offending
- children and families' rights.
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- UNCRC incorporation and child justice
- Participation in child protection processes.
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| Alyson Evans |
- Scots Family Law
- Children's Rights
- The Children's Hearing System
- Child Protection, especially in non-familial settings (for example, sport)
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- The Children's Hearing System
- Child Protection in Sport
|
| Simon Halliday |
- socio-legal studies
- legal culture
- administrative justice
- public law
|
- Administrative fairness: public perceptions of fairness in public administration
- Legal consciousness: what people think and do in relation to law in everyday life
|
| Charlie Irvine |
- mediation in the justice system & the role of emotion in conflict
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- mediation in the justice system
- the role of emotion in conflict
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| Douglas Jack |
- constitutional law
- human rights law
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- protection of human rights in Scotland
- multi-institutional protection of human rights
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| Mel Kenny |
- private law (in particular contract and Europeanised private law)
- company and securities law
- corporate governance
- consumer and competition law
- EU law
|
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| Genevieve Lennon |
- counter-terrorism & security
- human rights
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| James MacLean |
- legal theory & legal philosophy
- international criminal law
- transitional justice
- miscarriages of justice
- criminal law & criminal justice
|
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| Christopher McCorkindale |
- constitutional law
- legal theory
- administrative law
|
- devolution in the UK
- Hannah Arendt and the law
|
| Lynsey Mitchell |
- international human rights law
- women’s rights
- reproductive rights
- gender & sexuality
- feminist legal theory
- women & conflict
|
- abortion and human rights
- gendered approaches to human rights law
|
| Elisa Morgera |
- international, European & comparative environmental law, with a particular focus on the interaction between biodiversity law & human rights (particularly those of indigenous peoples and local communities)
- equity & sustainability in natural resource development
- oceans governance
- corporate accountability
|
|
| Mary Neal |
- healthcare law
- abortion law
- assisted dying and the law
- beginning-of-life and end-of-life ethics
- conscientious objection in healthcare
- healthcare professionalism and ethics
- legal theory
- theory of property
- human dignity
- vulnerability and the law
|
|
| Guido Noto La Diega |
- intellectual property (copyright, patents, database rights)
- private law and technology
- data protection
- European private law
- consumer law
|
Projects at the intersection of law and technology, especially the Internet of Things, AI and robots.
Particularly interested in embedded AI and multidisciplinary projects bringing together law, computer science, and/or health research.
|
| Maria Ntona |
- legal theory
- legal geography
- international & EU environmental law
- human rights and the environment
- oceans governance (with an emphasis on the social & institutional dimensions)
|
|
| Thérèse O'Donnell |
- counter-terrorism
- hate speech
- holocaust legacy
- human rights
- looted art
- public international law
- transitional justice
|
- public international law
- human rights law
|
| Michael Randall |
- financial law & concern regulating behaviour predominantly in the financial sector through taxation at both national & international level
|
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| Barry Rodger |
- competition law
- international private law
|
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| Emily Rose |
|
- Labour markets and the employment relationship in the innovation economy
|
| Jane Scoular |
- feminist legal theory
- gender and law
- legal theory
- sex work
|
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Birgit Schippers
|
- human rights, artificial intelligence & data privacy
- law, justice & algorithmic decision-making
- legal & ethical regulation of biometric technologies
- online speech, online harms & disinformation
- critical human rights theories
|
|
| Francesco Sindico |
- climate change law
- international environmental law
- international trade law
- international water law
- transboundary aquifers
|
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| Stephanie Switzer |
- international environmental law
- international trade law
- world trade organisation
- global health security
- law and epidemics
|
|
| Cyrus Tata |
- criminal justice
- discretionary decision-making
- executive release from custody
- judicial sentencing and punishment
- legal aid & access to justice
- plea decision-making
- judiciary
- penology
- penal policy
|
- criminal justice
- discretionary decision-making
- Sentencing and punishment
- Scottish access to justice
- Scottish criminal justice
|
| Saskia Vermeylen |
- legal theory
- legal anthropology
- law and literature
- levinas
- property theory
|
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| Elaine Webster |
- dignity
- human rights
- human rights education
|
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| Rhonda Wheate |
- criminal law
- criminal justice
- evidence
- expert evidence
- law clinics
|
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| Adelyn Wilson |
- private law
- public law
- medical law
- legal history
|
- private law
- public law
- medical law
- legal history
|
| Rebecca Zahn |
- labour law
- European social policy
- EU law comparative law
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