Research News
Below is a list of news items on research activity in the School of Law. If you wish to obtain more information on any of the items listed here, or otherwise have any enquiries about these items, we encourage you to contact the relevant member of staff.March 2008
Prof Ernest Metzger: 'Obligations in Roman Procedure'. At: The Future of Obligations, given by the American Academy in Rome, 12-14 March.
January 2008
Prof Iain MacNeil has been appointed a Visiting (Professorial) Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University.
December 2007
Prof Esin Örücü: 'Comparative Law at a Crossroads'. On Thursday, 6 December 2007, 5.30 - 7.30 pm, Esin Örücü (University of Glasgow) and David Nelken (University of Macerata) will give a talk introducing their Comparative Law: A Handbook at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR. There will be replies by John Flood, Professor of Law at the University of Westminster, and Gordon Woodman, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Birmingham. Enquiries to IALS.Events@sas.ac.uk.
November 2007
Prof Iain MacNeil delivered a paper entitled 'Private Equity: the UK Regulatory Response' to the Korean Commercial Law Association in Seoul.
Prof Ernest Metzger: 'Having an Audience with the Magistrate'. At: Spaces of Justice in the Roman World, given by The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University, New York, 16-17 November.
Dr Akbar Rasulov, paper: 'International Law and the Idea of a Common Humanity: A Story of Two Scandals', Securing Humanity: Perspectives from International Law, Westminster International Law and Theory Centre Symposium, University of Westminster, 14 November.
October 2007
Dr John Finlay: 'Lawyers and the Union', at the Scottish Legal History Group, Edinburgh, 6 October.
The Rt. Hon. George Reid, visiting professor at the University of Glasgow, opened The School of Conflict Resolution of the Foreign Policy Association of Moldova with a speech entitled 'Arriving at Yes', 2 October. [Extracts from the speech.]
Prof Adam Tomkins: 'The British Monarchy in European Perspective', Conference on EU Monarchies in Perspective, Leiden, Netherlands.
September 2007
Dr Martin Doris: 'The Frontiers of Legal Harmonization: Does Europe Need a Common Law of Contract'. Guest Lecture at the International Law Society of the University of San Francisco, Golden Gate University, 26 September.
Prof Tom Mullen: Housing Rights in Scots Law' at Council of Europe expert workshop on Housing Rights: Positive Duties and Enforceable Rights, Budapest, 25 September.
Prof Noreen Burrows attended the UK Judicial and Academic Visit to the European Court of Justice, Luxembourg, 24-25 September.
Dr John Finlay: 'History of the Notary in Scotland', at Rheinisches Institut für Notarrecht, University of Bonn, 21 September.
August 2007
Prof Adam Tomkins and Dr Scott Veitch: 'Republican Constitutionalism and the Scottish Enlightenment'. Law and Republicanism Workshop, IVR (World Congress for the Philosophy of Law), Krakow, Poland.
July 2007
Dr Ruth Dukes: a paper entitled ‘Property Paradigms in Employment Relations’, at the 2007 Law and Society Conference, Berlin, 25 July.
Prof Ernest Metzger, paper: 'The Remedy of Prohibution against Roman Judges in Civil Trials', Eighteenth British Legal History Conference, St Catherine's College, Oxford, 4 July.
June 2007
Dr Akbar Rasulov, paper: 'Globalization of Law in Central Asia', Global Law in Comparative Perspective: Latin America and Beyond, ELRC/David Rockefeller Center symposium, Harvard Law School, 17 June.
May 2007
Dr Colin Gavaghan, paper: 'Advance directives', at Old Patients, New Law: The Mental Capacity Act 2005, conference, Royal Society of Medicine, London, 22 May.
April 2007
Prof Adam Tomkins: 'The Rule of Law in Blair's Britain'. The 2007 Sir Frank Kitto Lecture at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
Dr Akbar Rasulov, paper: 'The ‘Mechanics’ of International Law’s Distributive Impact', International Law Association (British Branch), University of Sussex, 21 April.
February 2007
Dr Ruth Dukes: a paper entitled ‘Worker Representation and the Law: from Industrial Democracy to Partnership’, at the London School of Economics, 21 February.