Dr Stephen Bogle
- Senior Lecturer in Private Law (School of Law)
telephone:
(+44) 0141 330 5577
email:
Stephen.Bogle@glasgow.ac.uk
412, 5-9 The Square, The Stair Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411Biography
I joined the School of Law in 2014. My academic qualifications include an MA in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh (2005), an LLB from the University of Strathclyde (2007), an LLM by Research from the University of Edinburgh (2012), and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Edinburgh (2016). I qualified as a solicitor in Scotland in 2010, although I no longer practice. My teaching areas encompass delict, contract, property, international sales law, and the history of legal thought.
Research interests
My primary interest lies in obligations—specifically, what we owe to each other. My focus is on the law of obligations, which includes contract and delict/tort law.
I have authored works on a variety of topics including good faith in contract law, mental health disorders and civil responsibility, the liability of public authorities for negligent acts, the vicarious liability of employers for their employees' actions, the reform of defamation law in Scotland, and the interpretation of contracts.
I am deeply fascinated by intellectual history and its role in understanding the ideas, practices, and institutions that shape the contemporary world. My writings explore themes such as the role of autonomy in the development of contract law in Europe, the legal response to the South Sea Bubble crisis, and the ways in which historical perspectives can inform contemporary theories of private law.
Over the past decade, I have focused particularly on the development of contract law in Europe during the early modern period and into the eighteenth century. This research culminated in my monograph, Contract before the Enlightenment: The Ideas of Viscount Stair, 1619-1695 (OUP, 2023), which examines the evolution of contractual thought in Scotland within the intellectual context of seventeenth-century Scotland.
Supervision
- Charman, Troy
Defamation in the 21st Century: a comparative analysis of the law of defamation in Scotland and South Africa
Farrer, Simone (2021) Legal code: are smart contracts a universal solution to improve transactions? LL.M(R) thesis, University of Glasgow.
Turner, Halle (2018) The party litigant in the Scottish civil courts. PhD thesis.
Hassall, Sarah (2018) Are UK product liability laws sufficient for the integration of autonomous vehicles? LL.M(R) thesis.
