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In Our Blogs...
Scots Law News: Prosecuting bank directors: some historical observations
ECCLblog: Uncertainty in Commercial Contracts
Edinburgh Legal History Blog: Spottiswoode's Practicks
European Private Law News: DCFR mentioned in Scottish case on contractual error
Student Experience Blog: 'Higher Education, the Devolution Settlement and the Referendum on Independence.' (Think Tank 1)
CITSEE blog: CITSEE studies on “Citizenship after Yugoslavia” published by Routledge
Law Careers @ Edinburgh blog: A rash of summer legal conferences, careers open days and fairs - kick off Summer!
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?
Competition Law in Edinburgh: The Court of Session as a European Union Court? The example of the challenge to the minimum price on alcohol legislation
Latest Staff Publications and Papers
Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Theoretical, Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
Editor(s): Leonidas Cheliotis, Valsamis Mitsilegas, Peter Alldridge
forthcoming, Hart (2014)
Leonidas Cheliotis, Sappho Xenakis 'Crime and Economic Downturn: The Complexity of Crime and Crime Politics in Greece since 2009 [second author]' (2013) British Journal of Criminology 53(5)
Leonidas Cheliotis 'Global Forces, Inner Needs: The Political Economy of Contemporary Punishment and the Domestic Economy of the Soul' in Leonidas Cheliotis, Valsamis Mitsilegas, Peter Alldridge (eds) Globalisation, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice: Theoretical, Comparative and Transnational Perspectives (forthcoming, Hart, 2014)
Richard Jones '(Invited paper) The promises of electronic monitoring in controlling dangerous offenders: Is there a rehabilitative potential?' presented at Developing sexual offender law and treatment in Europe: Political and legal trends and new paths in treatment strategies for sexual offenders, Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg, Germany, 2013
School News
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22 May 2013 Stephen Thomson invited to speak at international conference on equitable gap-filling
Stephen Thomson has been invited to speak at the international conference "Filling the Gaps: The Study of Judicial Creativity and Equity in Mixed Jurisdictions and Beyond", to be held on 27-28th May at the University of Catania, Italy. Read more...
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03 May 2013 Law School Success at 20th Willem c Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna
Congratulations to this year’s Edinburgh Vis Moot team on their success in this year’s Willem C Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot. Read more...
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26 April 2013 AQMeN Research Centre launches Phase 2 following £4m funding success
The Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) Research Centre, has been awarded £4 million by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to continue its research into pressing issues such as crime rates, racial segregation, and social inequality. Read more...
Forthcoming Events
Today  Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law
Nationalism and Globalisation: new settings, new challenges
Suregons Hall 09:00 to 18:00
Today  Edinburgh Student Law Review - Launch Evening
Lord Hope of Craighead
Lorimer Room,Old College 17:00 to 19:00
27 May 2013  Constitutional Law Discussion Group
‘The Making and Unmaking of Constitutionalism in Iraq: Historical Developments and Post-2003 Implications’
Shamiran Mako, University of Edinburgh
Ken Mason Suite, Old College 15:00 to 16:00
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