Private law staff

Private law staff

Dr Lesley-Anne Barnes Macfarlane

Summary of research interests

Primarily (i) child law; (ii) family law; (iii) influence of children's human rights on the development of law/legal policy in Scotland and in comparative jurisdictions; (iv) relationship between law and other disciplines.

Ms Felicity Belton

Summary of research interests

Legal approaches to honour abuse / harmful traditional practices, including forced marriage, child marriage, female genital mutilation; Belief Marriages; Human Trafficking; Legal Education

Dr Stephen Bogle

Summary of research interests

Stephen's principal research lies in the field of obligations, including contract/delict/tort theory, legal history and questions of legal responsibility.

Dr Alan Brown

Summary of research interests

His research interests are primarily in the field of family law, focusing on the construction of the family and parenthood within the law, particularly in the context of assisted reproduction, surrogacy and non-traditional families.

Dr Graeme Cunningham

Summary of research interests

Roman Law; Private Law; Legal History; History; Classics; Scots Law; Obligations; Property Law; Succession; Rhetoric; Legal Science; Legal Narratives; Delict; Contract Law; comparative private law; comparative law.

Dr Mat Campbell

Summary of research interests

Private law; commercial law; comparative private law; common law legal systems.

Professor Janeen Carruthers

Summary of research interests

International private law/the conflict of laws, including in particular the EU programme of harmonisation of civil and commercial law, and family law, including property and succession.

Professor Mark Godfrey

Summary of research interests

Legal history and the law of obligations; the history of central justice, courts, jurisdiction, private law and dispute settlement in medieval and early modern Scotland.

Dr Marta Iljadica

Summary of research interests

Intellectual property (especially copyright), land law.

Dr Joyman Lee

Summary of research interests

Private law, specifically trusts, property, security, succession; legal history; Asian law; African law

Mr Bobby Lindsay

Summary of research interests

International Private Law, Delict, Contract, Corporate Insolvency

Professor Jane Mair

Summary of research interests

Family law. Matrimonial and family property. UK and EU employment law. Discrimination in employment with particular interest in sex discrimination.

Professor Antonio Marzal

Summary of research interests

International arbitration, International investment law, private international law, EU constitutional law, and comparative law & comparative legal theory, especially legal reasoning, the circulation of legal ideas across different legal systems, and legal pluralist frameworks.

Dr Rachel McPherson

Summary of research interests

Socio-legal, feminist research; legal responses to domestic abuse with particular interest in domestic homicide

Dr Livashnee Naidoo

Summary of research interests

Dr Naidoo's research interests are in International Commercial Insurance (Contract) Law and Theory, International Commercial Law; Shipping Law; Sustainability and Insurance; and Smart technologies in insurance and shipping markets.

Professor Andreas Rahmatian

Summary of research interests

Intellectual property law; property law, property and IP theory; commercial law; private law; comparative private and commercial law, Civil Law systems; modern legal history (from 1700), especially law and intellectual history; copyright, music, art, aesthetics and the law

Dr Dot Reid

Summary of research interests

Private law; law of obligations; contract law; unjustified enrichment; succession law; comparative law; theory of private law; legal history; history of ideas.

Dr Adam Reilly

Summary of research interests

I am interested in private law generally, with an emphasis on property law, equitable remedies, and certain issues in private law theory. I take a comparative approach to my research, and study the case law, statute, and academic commentary of several common law jurisdictions.

Professor Jill Robbie

Summary of research interests

Private law, property, comparative law, environmental law.

Dr Flora Vern

Summary of research interests

Property law; Collective land ownership (commons); Comparative law; French law; Legal doctrine; Legal history; History of legal ideas.