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In Our Blogs...
Scots Law News: A Christmas treat from Bute
ECCLblog: Aberdeen City Council wins Supreme Court interpretation appeal: Aberdeen CC v Stewart Milne Group Limited [2011] UKSC 56
Edinburgh Legal History Blog: Call for Papers: New Perspectives on locatio conductio in Roman law, 6-8 June 2012, Edinburgh Centre for Legal History
European Private Law News: Promise in Thai law, Scottish law and the DCFR
Widening Participation Blog: LawPALS3: Review to Date
CITSEE blog: CITSEE is recruiting three research fellows
Law Careers @ Edinburgh blog: Traineeship and placement opportunity news - some key dates for your calendar...
Sport and the Law: From Bosman to Rooney - The meteoric rise of 'player power' in professional football contracts and its systemic pitfalls
Media Law: Is The UK ‘Media Plurality Test’ Fit For Purpose?
Latest Staff Publications and Papers
The Public in Law
Editor(s): Claudio Michelon, Gregor Clunie, Christopher McCorkindale and Haris Psarras
Ashgate (2012)
Niamh Nic Shuibhne '(Some Of) The Kids Are All Right: Comment on McCarthy and Dereci' (2012) Common Market Law Review vol. 49:1, pp. 339-380
Sharon Cowan 'Criminalizing SM: Disavowing the Erotic, Instantiating Violence' in Duff, Farmer, Marshall, Renzo and Tadros (eds) The Structures of the Criminal Law (OUP, 2012) pp59-84
Gezim Krasniqi 'Citizenship and (Contested) Geographical Space: the Case of Kosovo' presented at The Yougoslav Space 20 Years Later, ULB, Brussels, Belgium, 2011
School News
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17 January 2012 Dr Shawn Harmon receives first ever CHSS Investment Fund Award
An application led by Edinburgh Law School’s Shawn Harmon with colleagues from across the University, was awarded funding from the College of Humanities and Social Science Challenge Investment Fund. This new scheme is designed to support capacity building for inter- and/or multi-disciplinary working, and will fund various projects across the College. Read more...
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09 January 2012 Japanese Parliamentary Delegation Visit
A delegation from the Japanese House of Representatives visited Edinburgh Law School on 9 January 2012. The Japanese House (Shugin-In) is researching the operation of voting systems and is particularly interested in the Scottish experience with the Additional Member System. To this end, Navraj Singh Ghaleigh met with several members of the Legislative Bureau of the House of Representatives to discuss matters such as split ticketing, double candidacy and the d'Honte system. The delegation will be meeting colleagues in other universities, regulators and political think tanks both in Scotland and London. Read more...
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04 January 2012 Chancellor's Fellowships application deadline nearing
The first application deadline for the Chancellor's Fellowships offered by the Law School will close on Monday 16th January 2012. Read more...
Forthcoming Events
1 Feb 2012  School Meetings
Meeting of the Postgraduate Taught Committee
Lorimer Room 14:00 to 16:00
2 Feb 2012  The Centre for Law and Society Seminar Series
'A court and conflict: Israel's Supreme Court litigates the occupation'
Prof Iain Scobbie
Moot Court Room, Old College 16:15 to 18:00
2 Feb 2012  Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law
'The Pointlessness of the Performance Interest: Keep Open Covenants in Scotland'
Professor David Campbell, University of Leeds
Raeburn Room, Old College 18:00 to 20:00
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