School of Law staff supervision interests and expertise

Member of staff Core area(s) of Further details re Jurisdictions supervision supervision possibilities covered Dr Stephen Bogle Private law Theories/philosophies of , England private law, whether and Wales, Western historical or contemporary, legal regimes (if European legal history in historical) 17th and 18th centuries, intellectual histories of jurists, judges, or legal writers, histories of international trade laws (commercial not institutional)

NOT: international private law, socio-legal methodologies, or contemporary comparative law projects Dr Alan Brown Family law All areas of family law, and Scotland, England in particular the legal and Wales with regulation of parenthood, potential for assisted reproductive comparative law technologies, surrogacy research Professor Janeen International private Cross-border civil and Scottish, UK; EU, Carruthers law, private commercial law, including global/transnational international law, problems of jurisdiction and regimes and conflict of laws judgment recognition and comparative enforcement, and approaches drawing international procedure; on any of these choice of law problems in the law of obligations; choice of law problems pertaining to property (including cultural property) and succession; cross- border child and family law, including cross-border surrogacy, inter-country adoption, international child abduction, forced marriage and recognition of overseas divorce and nullity; EU programme of harmonisation of civil and commercial law, family law, and property and succession, and Brexit implications for these areas; and conflict of laws methodology (characterisation; renvoi; problems of time)

NOT: public international law; international investment law; arbitration Dr Katarzyna Company law Directors' duties, corporate UK, US, Poland, Chalaczkiwicz-Ladna governance Germany, codes, corporate China, and governance, corporate comparative social approaches drawing responsibility, comparative on any of these law, empirical research

NOT: public international law of investment (aka international investment law), merger control, arbitration, insolvency, e- commerce Professor James Criminal law, Chalmers evidence and procedure Professor Emilios Legal theory, Critical theory, theories of Christodoulidis sociology of law democracy and constitutionalism, law and politics, theories of rights, transitional justice Dr James Devaney International law International courts and tribunals, international dispute settlement, international procedural issues, international investment law, the use of force, statehood and succession Professor Ruth Labour law and Labour law, employment Any, but especially Dukes social law law, social law, social rights, UK, Germany, EU, socio-economic rights, Council of Europe social theory relating to work and labour, labour history Dr Irene-marie Esser Corporate law Company law, corporate UK, EU, India governance, corporate (mainly for social responsibility, non- corporate social financial reporting and responsibility) and compliance and stakeholder South Africa protection and engagement Professor Lindsay Criminal law All aspects of criminal law Primarily common Farmer theory; criminalisation; law regimes history of criminal law; (Scotland, England); criminal law and markets; some comparative jurisdiction; criminal law approaches drawing and empire; responsibility; on these regimes history and development of specific offences; theory of the criminal trial

NOT: policing; transnational/EU criminal law; international criminal law

Professor John Finlay Legal history History of , history Scotland, UK of the legal profession, history of Scottish courts and legal procedure, doctrinal legal history, archival history, comparative legal history

NOT: legal history using non-UK archives Professor Mark Competition law All aspects of competition UK, EU, US, China, Furse law international networks and agreements or comparative approaches drawing on any of these Professor Robin General public Law of armed conflict, Geiss international law, international human rights and global security law, international criminal law law, arms control, new technologies as they relate to the above Dr Christian Gill Public law Projects in public law with Depends on the an empirical and socio-legal proposed area of focus; administrative research justice, tribunals, ombudsmen, and complaint procedures; administrative decision-making; access to justice; public accountability and regulation within government; alternative dispute resolution (ADR) and online dispute resolution (ODR) for consumer disputes; projects drawing on theories and frameworks including legal consciousness, participation, and therapeutic jurisprudence; inter-disciplinary projects, particularly combining socio-legal approaches with public management, social policy, and organisational sciences Dr Marta Iljadica Intellectual property IP (including copyright, UK, EU and Europe, law trade-marks, breach of confidence), IP and social norms, IP and property, socio-legal, law and geography Professor Mark Legal history History of Scots Law, history Scotland, UK Godfrey of Scottish courts and legal procedure, history of dispute resolution

NOT: legal history using non-UK archives Dr Giedre International law, Law and development, Jokubauskaite environmental law international investment law, international environmental law, environmental planning, oil and gas law, theory of international law, law of international organisations, transnational governance and regulation, 'soft law', Business and human rights, Indigenous rights, land rights, human rights

NOT: the law of the ECHR Professor Martin Copyright law, History of ideas relating to Any Kretschmer cultural and creative these fields, evidence based industries, platform policy, methodology, regulation (but check method innovation (eg the fit with the simulations, behavioural research programme experiments, bibliometric of the CREATe centre analysis, content analysis of judicial texts, computer assisted coding) Professor Fiona Criminal justice and Domestic criminal justice, Scotland, England Leverick criminal law criminal procedure, criminal and Wales, evidence and criminal law comparative work

Particularly interested in the prevention of and responses to wrongful conviction and jury decision making

NOT: international criminal law or criminology Dr Bobby Lindsay International private Cross-border civil and Scotland; England law, the law of commercial law and Wales; EU, obligations, (jurisdiction, foreign global/transnational corporate insolvency judgments, and choice of regimes and law); general problems in comparative international private law; approaches drawing private law aspects of on any of these foreign relations law; corporate insolvency (domestic and cross- border); Scottish aspects of debt financing; issues of domestic /tort law

NOT: arbitration, international economic/investment law; company law/corporate governance Dr Henry Lovat International law International law and politics, international courts and tribunals, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, UK and international human rights law (including European human rights law), international trade law Professor Iain Commercial law Corporate governance, UK, EU, US, China, MacNeil financial regulation, capital global and markets, banking, M & A transnational and takeovers, securities regimes or regulation, private , comparative institutional investment, approaches drawing interaction of innovation, on any of these private law & regulation (theory and applications e.g. fintech)

NOT: public international law of investment (aka international investment law), merger control, arbitration, insolvency, e- commerce Dr Frankie McCarthy Property law, family Property law, trusts, Scotland and other law, human rights succession, law of adult UK jurisdictions, relationships, child law, other jurisdictions children’s rights, education making a strong law, human rights aspects comparative of any of these areas of law approach to these under the ECHR and UNCRC, theoretical analysis of any of these areas of law, sociolegal/empirical analysis of any of these areas of law Dr Thomas Margoni Intellectual property Copyright law, especially International and internet law the process of copyright law copyright law, harmonisation (domestic European and EU); specific aspects of comparative substantive copyright law copyright law (EU (requirements for and domestic) protection, economic rights of exploitation, exceptions, etc); philosophical and economic justifications of copyright law; the function of copyright law both in historical and modern perspective; copyright law and human rights; copyright law and the public domain, copyright law and licences (especially open models); copyright law and new technologies (e.g. machine learning, AI, etc); copyright law and innovation theories; design rights, especially the process of design rights harmonisation and their impact on innovation; open access and open science Dr Antonio Marzal EU Law, private EU internal market, EU UK, EU, Spain, international law, constitutional law (e.g. France, US, comparative law citizenship, international law federalism), legal reasoning and judicial review, legal cultures, French law and legal culture, theory of private international law, legal pluralism, US legal culture (including Americanization of law), comparative law of obligations (contracts and torts), international investment arbitration

NOT: competition law Professor Ernest , Scottish Roman civil procedure, Ancient Rome, 18th Metzger enlightenment Roman private law, Roman century Scotland, law and society, reception 18th century of Roman law, Adam Smith, America natural jurisprudence, in America Dr Lilian Moncrieff Legal theory, Legal theory, critical legal corporate studies, corporate responsibility governance, corporate responsibility, corporate sustainability, critical company law, political ecology, the 'Anthropocene' and law Professor Tom Constitutional law, UK constitutional law, All UK legal Mullen administrative law including devolution across jurisdictions and, in and housing law the UK, federalism, the the case of comparative debate, and the impact of constitutional law, Brexit on the constitution; those of selected comparative constitutional other countries law; administrative law, including judicial review and administrative justice; housing law Dr Vera Pavlou Labour and Labour/migration law EU, International, migration law nexus, precarious work, UK, Cyprus, Spain or care/domestic work, comparative feminist approaches to projects drawing on labour law any of these Dr Charlotte Peevers International law, International legal history, international human international law and the rights law humanities, use of force, Cold War, colonialism, global governance, science and technology studies (STS) and international law, international waterways Dr Anni Pues International law Public international law, international criminal law and justice, transnational criminal law, European criminal law, international security, international human rights law

NOT: international trade law, international commercial law, private international law Professor Andreas Intellectual property Comparative commercial Scotland, England, Rahmatian law, private law law (NOT insolvency, NOT EU, particularly where arbitration); German legal there is a company law (NOT family, comparative focus, corporate governance) international law intellectual history of foreign trade with regard to the law, legal theory copyright and music and intellectual and political the arts property law philosophy with equity and trusts (common regard to property law) theory Dr Akbar Rasulov International law, Global governance, general post-Soviet legal public international law, studies history of international law, legal theory and international law, WTO law (but not TRIPS), Bretton Woods institutions, law and development, socialist law, law in the period of post- soviet transition Dr Jill Robbie Property law Natural resources, water UK, USA, rights, sustainable Scandinavian development, land use systems, mixed regulation, comparative law legal systems

NOT: international environmental law

Dr Paul Scott Constitutional law All areas of UK constitutional law, and generally or particularly issues relating Scotland/England to national security or and Wales devolution. Theoretical specifically. approaches to Possibility of constitutional law where comparative grounded in law or practice approaches involving common law jurisdictions Dr Konstantinos Corporate law Corporate governance, EU (Belgium, Sergakis capital markets, securities Luxembourg, regulation, institutional France, UK, investment, interaction of Germany, Greece, innovation, private law & Italy, Spain, regulation (theory and Portugal), UK US, applications) global and transnational NOT: Public international regimes or law of investment (aka comparative international investment approaches drawing law), merger control, on any of these arbitration, insolvency, e- commerce, M&A, financial regulation, banking law, commercial law Dr Javier Solana Corporate and Financial regulation, UK, Spain, EU, US or financial law sustainable finance, law and other regimes economic development making a strong comparative approaches to these Professor Christian Public international International courts and Tams law tribunals; United Nations law; international investment law; sources of international law; law of treaties; State responsibility; sovereign immunities; jus ad bellum; history of international law; international security (law); statehood and succession

NOT: human rights of particular states; commercial arbitration; corporate/financial law Dr Dania Thomas Financial crises - law, Sovereign debt crisis, UK, EU, US, China, common law, resolution, litigation, Global and corporate law sovereign debt demand Transnational dynamics, the political regimes and economy of sovereign debt, comparative colonial and post-colonial approaches drawing examinations of debt crises, on any of these socio-legal and law and economics approaches/methodologies Dr Sally Zhu Legal theory Jurisprudence, critical legal studies, normative theory, materialism, property

NOT empirical approaches Dr Alain Zysset European Democratic rights (freedom ECtHR, IAtHR, UN Convention on of expression, assembly, treaty bodies Human Rights, legal elections), ECHR machinery and political theory (subsidiarity, margin of appreciation, implementation), human rights theory, democratic theory