Dr Dot Reid
- Senior Lecturer (Law)
telephone:
3224
email:
Dot.Reid@glasgow.ac.uk
College of Social Sciences, School of Law, Room 1/05, Professor Square, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7306-9680Biography
Dot Reid joined the Law School in January 2011, having previously taught at Strathclyde Law School. She holds degrees from the Universities of Glasgow (MA (Hons) in French and German), Strathclyde (LLB) and Edinburgh (PhD).
Her research interests lie mainly in private law, with a focus on theoretical aspects of private law and the history of ideas. Her doctoral thesis, entitled “Fraud in Scots Law”, explores the boundaries of law and morality and the way in which social, economic and political ideas impacted on the substantive law. She also writes and researches on succession law from a policy perspective and is interested in the impact of social change on modern Scots law.
She is currently the Assistant Editor of the Edinburgh Law Review.
Teaches Obligations and Property Law (Succession).
Research interests
Private law; law of obligations; contract law; unjustified enrichment; succession law; comparative law; theory of private law; legal history; history of ideas.
Grants
Dr Reid has been awarded the following grants:
July 2022: Award £130,000
Commissioned research by Scottish Government and Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service to conduct a review of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the civil court system. Research team: IPSOS Scotland, Prof Nicole Busby, Prof Jane Mair and Dr Dot Reid.
March 2022: Award £67,373
PI. Commissioned by Scottish Government to design and conduct further research to inform future reform of succession law.
March 2021: Award £14,975
ESRC Impact Acceleration Grant to kickstart development of an inheritance calculator working with technology company Amiqus. Match-funding provided by Amiqus.
January 2021: Award £12,960
GKE Flexible Fund Grant to fund research assistance and website development of the Scottish Civil Justice Hub (Prof Nicole Busby, Dr Dot Reid).
December 2017: Award £2,456
ESRC Impact Acceleration Grant to conduct a pilot study and scoping work to develop an inheritance website and app for the purposes of public education and data collection.
November 2014: Award £2,500
Carnegie Trust small grant to fund travel to Montreal where I spent autumn 2015 as a visiting scholar at McGill University’s Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law.
2013: Award £1350
Learning and Teaching Fund award for kickstart development of an online revision tool for caselaw.
2012: Award £1,550
Adam Smith Research Foundation seedfunding for research project on “Inheritance Rights and Scottish Families”.
Supervision
Current PGR students
Euan Campbell - 'Ownerless Land in Scots law’
Allan McKenna - 'James Wilson’s Lectures on Law'
Former PGR students
Ahmed Mohammed A Alkhamis, ‘Recognition of Shariah family law in the UK: assessing the application of Shariah succession within Scots law in theory and practice. (2023, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow)
Nicole Sweeney, Public attitudes to inheritance in Scotland. (2018, PhD thesis, University of Glasgow)
Oliver Church, ‘The Crown Estate in Scotland’ (2014, LLM by Research thesis, University of Glasgow)
Paul McClelland, “The seller's liability for sale of faulty goods in Scots law” (2015, LLM by Research Thesis)
Teaching
Obligations (Course Convenor)
Property Law (Succession)
