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About the Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law
The Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law is a research centre at Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
The aim of the Centre is to foster research in Scottish, British and European commercial law; to promote excellence the teaching of commercial law (in particular with respect to our LLM in Commercial Law); and to foster links between the academic community and the legal profession. The members of the Centre conduct research in various fields of commercial law, for instance, company law, banking law, labour law, agency law and consumer protection law. In all these cases we study Scots and UK commercial law in its comparative European or international context.
The Centre for Commercial Law was officially launched in 2008 with a lecture by Stephen Woolman QC.
The director of the Centre is Laura Macgregor and the Chairman of the Centre is the Rt Hon Lord Reed.
Activities in 2011 - 12
We are now in the fifth year of events organised by the Centre since its inauguration.
The fourth annual lecture 'Time to call it a day: reflections on finality and the Law' is to be delivered by Rt Hon Lord Dyson (Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom) in the Playfair Library, Old College on 14th October.
On 7th October 2011 the Centre, together with Burness LLP, hosted a second conference on recent developments in European public procurement law. The programme for the event can be found here.
Previous activities
Details of previous Centre activities in 2010-11 can be found here. And there is more information on all previous Centre events since the inauguration of the Centre accessible here.
Annual Lectures
The Centre has organised an annual lecture since its inauguration in 2008.
The first annual lecture was delivered by the late Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill visited the Centre on 4 March 2008 on "A New Thing Under the Sun? The Interpretation of Contracts and the ICS Decision".
The second annual lecture was delivered by the Rt Hon Lord Hoffmann on 12th May 2009. Lord Hoffmann spoke on 'The Achilleas: Custom and Practice or Foreseeability'.
The third annual lecture was delivered by the Rt Hon Lord Hope of Craighead KT on 12th March 2010. He spoke on "Taking the case to London - maybe it's not all over after all".
More about the Centre and its activities
Please use the menu on the right to find out more about the members of the Centre, their current research, forthcoming events, postgraduate studies in commercial law at the University of Edinburgh, and consultancy.
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