School of Law

About us

Professor Irene-marié Esser 

Professor Irene-marié Esser is a Professor of Corporate Law and Governance in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow and Dean of the Graduate School, College of Social Sciences. Since 2020 she is an Extraordinary Professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. 

Professor Esser acted as Director and Deputy-Director of Postgraduate Teaching and Co-Subject Head of Commercial Law at the School of Law, University of Glasgow from 2018 until 2022 as well as the Early-Career Co-Ordinator. She also served as a Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa (UNISA) and was, until 2017, a Visiting Professor at the Open University, UK. She has been in academia for 15 years and was admitted as an Attorney of the High Court of South Africa in 2005. In South Africa she was Professor and Co-Subject Head of Corporate Law at UNISA until March 2013, when she relocated, with her family, to Edinburgh, Scotland. Irene-marié obtained her LLB at Stellenbosch University (2001, first in her class), her LLM at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland (2003) and her LLD at UNISA (2008). She was the Company Law Convener for the UK Society of Legal Scholars for 3 years, until 2021. She currently teaches Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility and Company Law at the University of Glasgow and supervises postgraduate research students in the United Kingdom and South Africa. Her research spans doctrinal and empirical approaches, covering the UK, EU and South Africa in the field of corporate governance, company law and corporate social responsibility. 

 

Dr Catriona Cannon 

Catriona Cannon is a Lecturer in Equality Law in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow.  She joined the School in November 2018.  She has a PhD (2018) and a LL.B with Honours in Scots Law (2003) from the University of Glasgow and a Diploma in Professional Legal Practice (2004) from the Glasgow Graduate School of Law. She qualified as a solicitor in Scotland in 2006 and prior to taking her post at the University, she worked as a solicitor in commercial legal practice for many years, specialising in the field of employment law.   

Catriona’s research interests are primarily in the area of Equality Law.  She has a particular interest in religion in its human rights and equality law context and in the experiences of religious organisations. 

 

Professor Iain MacNeil  

Iain MacNeil is the Alexander Stone Chair of Commercial Law at the School of Law. Iain’s early career was as an investment analyst in the City of London covering the insurance sector. He took up his first academic appointment following completion of his PhD on The Legal Framework for the EU Single Market in Insurance. Iain served as Head of School from 2015-2019 and is now Head of the Corporate & Financial Law Research Group.

Iain’s primary interest and expertise lies in corporate governance, financial regulation and investment. He has published widely and in particular he has explored the interaction between hard and soft law in this sphere, as well as the influence of international standards. His recent publications focus on sustainable finance and stakeholder interests in corporate governance.