People
Executive team
- Leadership Team
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Name Position School Executive Justin Borg-Barthet Head of School Daria Shapovalova Deputy Head of School Alisdair MacPherson Deputy Head of School Clare Fletcher School Administration Manager Chike Emedosi Lead Academic Line Manager Anne-Michelle Slater Director of Education Burcu Yuksel Ripley Director of Research Academic Line Managers Alisdair MacPherson Academic Line Manager Edouard Fromageau Academic Line Manager Douglas Bain Academic Line Manager Katarina Trimmings Academic Line Manager School Wide Roles Clare Frances Moran EDI Lead Alice Krzanich Deputy EDI Lead Mitchell Lennan LBGTQ+ Network Representative Hanifi Baris Race Equality Champion Nevena Jevremovi膰 Decolonisation Lead Luci Carey Director of International Partnerships Scott Styles Community Engagement Officer Greg Gordon Regional Engagement Lead Jonathan Ainslie Senior Personal Tutor Elizabeth Shaw Monitoring Lead Onyoja Momoh Deputy Monitoring Lead Catherine Ng Study Abroad Coordinator Programme Leads Eddy Wifa/Katarina Trimmings PGR Programmes Coordinator and Graduate School Officer Fatima Ozcan Deputy Graduate School Officer Douglas Bain LLB Programmes Coordinator Mitch Skilling UG Level 1 Coordinator Alisdair MacPherson UG Level 2 Coordinator Chris Vannart UG Level 3 Coordinator Euan West UG Level 4 Coordinator Tania Loureiro MA Legal Studies and Criminology Coordinator Solomon Obulor DPLP Director Tomi Eni-ibukun PGT Programmes Coordinator Eddy Wifa PGT Online Coordinator Patrick Achor Professional Skills Programmes Coordinator Qiang (John) Cai LLM Theme Coordinator (Commercial Law) Elizabeth Shaw LLM Theme Coordinator (Criminal Justice & Human Rights) Mitchell Lennan LLM Theme Coordinator (Energy Law) Edouard Fromageau LLM Theme Coordinator (International Law) Catherine Ng LLM Theme Coordinator (IP and IT Law) Patricia Zivkovic Dispute Resolution Programmes Coordinator Onyoja Momoh Qatar Programmes Coordinator - Administration Team
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Name Position Role Clare Fletcher School Administration Manager Carol Lawie Deputy School Administration Manager Farida Ali School Administrator Postgraduate Taught & Research Programmes; Postgraduate Pastoral Support
Julia Braik School Administration Coordinator School Research Support, Finance and Travel Support Annji Kinoshita-Bashforth School Administration Coordinator DPLP; Qatar; On-Demand Learning; Bond Solon; NSELP May Holbrook School Administration Assistant Undergraduate Programmes (Level 1-3) ; Head of School PA; Viktorija Juoskaudiene School Administration Assistant Postgraduate Taught Programmes; Professional Skills Louise Richmond School Administration Assistant Reception; General Queries; Admissions Jean Stevenson School Administration Assistant Undergraduate Programmes (Level 1-3) Leigh Thomson School Administration Assistant Undergraduate Programmes; Honours Level Lucy Grassick Marketing Campaigns Manager Student Recruitment; Conversion - Research Governance Team
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Name Role General Contacts Burcu Yuksel Ripley Director of Research Elspeth Spice Business Development Officer (R&I) Onyoja Momoh Research Seminar Lead Irene Couzigou Research Celebrations Lead Eddy Wifa Research Festival Lead (term 1) JP Fassnidge ECR Lead Eddy Wifa MCR Lead Julia Braik Research Administration Support (Research committee clerk, funding, and research leave, visiting scholars and students) School Research Leads Claudio Lombardi Impact Lead Tania Loureiro Ethics Lead Elizabeth Shaw Grants Lead Tamas Gyorfi Outputs Lead Mitchell Lennan Environment and Culture Lead Burcu Yüksel Ripley School REF Lead School 2040 Leads Alice Krzanich Social Inclusion Lead Alisdair MacPherson Innovation Lead Justin Borg-Barthet International Lead Euan West Interdisciplinary Lead Thomas Muinzer Sustainability Lead Research Centre Leads Mitchell Lennan Centre for Energy Law Director Eddy Wifa Centre for Energy Law Associate Director Qiang (John) Cai Centre for Commercial Law Director Chike Emedosi Centre for Commercial Law Associate Director Jonathan Ainslie Centre for Scots Law Co-Director JP Fassnidge Centre for Scots Law Co-Director Luci Carey Centre for Private International Law Co-Director Michiel Poesen Centre for Private International Law Co-Director Irene Couzigou Centre for Constitutional & Public International Law Co-Director Clare Frances Moran Centre for Constitutional & Public International Law Co-Director Research Groups, Networks, Hubs, and Other Justin Borg-Barthet Anti-SLAPP Hub Lead Solomon Obulor Global South Research Network Lead Tomi Akanle Eni-ibukun Global South Research Network Lead Gloria Alvarez Dispute Resolution Network Lead JP Fassnidge Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Research Group Patricia 沤ivkovi膰 AI and Humanity Research Group Nevena Jevremovi膰 Law and Political Economy Reading Group - Academic Staff
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Name Position Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law
Patrick Achor Lecturer Lecturer in Private Law
Senior Lecturer International Dispute Resolution and Economic Law
Mark Amakoromo Teaching Fellow Lisa Armstrong Teaching Fellow Mahmoud Ashami Lecturer Professor of Dispute Process Law
Senior Lecturer in Scots Law Hanifi Baris Lecturer Professor of Law Professor of Law Professor of Private International Law and EU Law Valerie Bremner Lecturer in Law Professor of Intellectual Property Law Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law Senior Lecturer in Scots Law and Family Law Lecturer in Law Professor of Public International Law and French Law Professor of Law Senior Lecturer in IT Law and Regulation Lecturer in Energy Law Senior Lecturer in Banking and Financial Law Lecturer in Criminal Law & Criminal Justice Lecturer in Law Professor of Civil Law Senior Lecturer in International Economic Law Professor of Law Lecturer in Private Law Heloise Guichardaz Teaching Fellow Professor of Law Lecturer in Commercial Law Lecturer in Law and Legal History Benjamin Lawrence Lecturer in Law Lecturer in Environmental Law Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law Tania Loureiro Lecturer Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law Lecturer in Space Law Lecturer in Private International Law Senior Lecturer in International Criminal Law Lizeth Moreno Marquez Teaching Fellow Reader in Energy Transition Law Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law Loi (Jenny) Nguyen Teaching Fellow Fatima Özcan Lecturer in Maritime and Commercial Law Professor of Scots Law Professor of International Comparative Law Professor of Law Lecturer in Private International Law OBE (Reader) in Public Law Kamo Sende Lecturer Senior Lecturer in Energy Law Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice Professor in Scots Private Law Mitchell Skilling Lecturer in Private Law Professor of Planning and Environmental Law Mariana Canto Sobral Teaching Fellow Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law, Legal Theory, Oil and Gas Law Professor of Private International Law and Family Law Christopher Vannart Lecturer Lecturer in Scots Private Law Senior Lecturer in Offshore Energy Risk Governance Lecturer in Law Professor of Public International Law Professor of Law Senior Lecturer in International Dispute Resolution - Academic Disciplinary Interests
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Staff Name Disciplinary Interests Patrick Achor Renewable energy regulation, alternative dispute resolution, comparative law, Scots private law, Scottish legal history Titilayo Adebola Plant variety protection, geographical indications, traditional knowledge, access and benefit sharing, international intellectual property Jonathan Ainslie Law of obligations (contract, delict/tort, unjust enrichment), Roman law, Scottish legal history, law and economics Tomilola Akanle Eni-ibukun International environmental law, energy law, climate change law, environmental justice, low-carbon development Gloria Alvarez All of areas of dispute resolution, international arbitration (commercial and investment), international investment law, EU law, energy law, social justice, foreign investments, empirical methods Mahmoud Ashami Company law, corporate governance, contract law, comparative law, Sharia law Derek Auchie Law of evidence, arbitration, dispute resolution, statutory interpretation, witness reliability, corroboration Douglas Bain Property, leases, charities, co-ownership, English property Hanifi Baris Comparative democratic constitutions, Indigenous and minority constitutions, public law, public law in Turkey, international human rights regime, multiculturalism Florian Becker Fundamental rights, comparative constitutional law, German law, internal market/competition and regulatory law Matyas Bodig Legal theory (with a focus on conceptual legal theory and the methodology of legal scholarship), international human rights law Justin Borg-Barthet Strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP), governing law of companies, jurisdiction, choice of law and recognition of defamation judgments, cross-border recognition of same-sex relationships, mutual recognition Valerie Bremner Criminological theories, policing, judicial decision making Abbe Brown Intellectual property (including covering trade secrets, privacy, standards), regime and legal intersections, climate change, competition, human rights, creativity, natural resources Graeme Brown Sentencing (domestic and comparative), sexual offences, judicial decision-making, forensic medicine Qiang Cai Tax law and international tax law, company law and corporate governance Ilona Cairns Family law, evidence, criminal law, gender and the law Luci Carey Shipping law, maritime law, international regulation of shipping, international trade, technology and shipping, Australian law Irene Couzigou Public international law and tech regulation (cyber law, regulation of artificial intelligence, governance of online platforms), international peace and security law, the law of international organisations, international human rights law, French law, German public law Peter Cserne Jurisprudence, law and economics, contract law and theory, comparative law Rossana Ducato Data protection, intellectual property, regulation of artificial intelligence, consumer protection, comparative law, Italian law Chike Emedosi Financial law, banking law and regulation, rights in security, development finance law, tax law, corporate finance law, company law JP Fassnidge Criminal law theory, criminalisation, criminal procedure, criminal evidence, jurisprudence, metanormative theory John Ford Scottish legal history, maritime law history Edouard Fromageau International development law, international dispute settlement, global administrative law, law and tech, global animal law, trade and investment law Greg Gordon Delictual liability, commercial contracts Thomas Green Legal history, historical family law, succession law, historical court procedure, Roman law, canon law, classical Scots law, history of the Scottish legal system, historical theology and jurisprudence, constitutional history, law and religion Tamas Gyorfi Constitutional review, legal reasoning, sovereignty, comparative constitutionalism, judicial behaviour Nevena Jevremovic International sales law, CISG, contractual governance in global value chains, international investment law, sustainable development, philosophy of interpretation, law, death and emotions, non-anthropocentric death Alice Krzanich Legal history (in particular: 19th century, historical master-servant law, historical contract law), women and law, gender and private law, law and emotions Ben Lawrence Comparative constitutional law, law and society (socio-legal studies), Asian law, human rights, authoritarianism, peace and reconciliation, comparative politics Mitchell Lennan Public international law, especially law of the sea and environmental/climate change law, European and national environmental law Claudio Lombardi Competition law/antitrust, law and technology, law and economics Tania Loureiro Criminology, sexual offences, alternatives to custody, impact of imprisonment, young offenders, gender and law Alisdair MacPherson Law of debt, insolvency law, security rights, property law, succession, trusts, corporate finance law, company law, modern legal history Maria Manoli Space law, telecommunications law, global commons Onyoja Momoh Parental child abduction, inter-country adoption, child rights and protection, gender based violence, gender equality and human rights, Private International Law Afro-global perspectives Clare Frances Moran Defences to serious violations of international criminal law, war crimes, crimes against humanity, international legal theory, criminal law, comparative criminal law Thomas Muinzer Climate and energy law, constitutional law, environmental law Catherine Ng Passing-off, trademarks, copyright, publicity, privacy, defamation Solomon Obulor Energy, natural resource and oil and gas law, resource curse, climate change and just transition, commercial dispute resolution and contracts Fatima Ozcan Marine insurance law, shipping law, cyber insurance law, law and autonomous ships, law and technology Roderick Paisley Servitudes, inheritance, trusts Roy Partain Mathematical methods of legal research, law and economics, social choice theory, comparative legal analysis, private and commercial space law, energy law, oil and gas law John Paterson Energy law, corporate governance, legal theory Michiel Poesen Private international law Mike Radford Public policy relating to non-human animals, government and law, governance of Scotland Kamo Sende International trade and commercial law, intellectual property law, copyright law, intellectual poperty law and creative industries, food law and food security Daria Shapovalova Energy law, just transition, climate change and energy, environmental law, indigenous rights, arctic governance, public international law Elizabeth Shaw Criminal responsibility, moral enhancement, free will, theories of punishment, moral uncertainty Andrew Simpson Scottish legal history, legal histories of European jurisdictions, comparative law, Scots private law, particularly property law and succession law Mitchell Skilling Scots law of leases, tribunals and alternative judicial fora Anne-Michelle Slater Planning law: land and sea, marine spatial planning, environmental justice, energy and decommissioning governance Scott Styles Contract law, oil and gas law, securities, medical ethics, role of the judiciary, Scottish legal tradition Katarina Trimmings Private international law of family law, comparative family law Christopher Vannart Policing and the use of police powers, homicide offences and defences, position of crime victims, parole and offender re-entry Euan West Law of obligations (unjustified enrichment, delict, personal security) Eddy Wifa Offshore oil and gas regulation, offshore wind energy regulation, natural resource governance Kirsty Wilson Family law in Scotland Zeray Yihdego International water law, international arms trade law, international humanitarian law Burcu Yuksel Ripley International trade and finance law (commercial aspects), international payments, international commercial law and dispute resolution, civil and commercial matters in private international law, law and technology (digitalisation, distributed ledger technology/blockchain, cryptocurrencies), Turkish law Patricia Zivkovic International commercial arbitration, applicable law in arbitration, data protection, digitalisation, legal philosophy of artificial intelligence, death and law