For information on our previous events from 2010-11 see here.

29th October 2009 - Speaker: Maurya Kilroy, Assistant District Counsel, US Army Corps of Engineers on "Recovery from Hurricane Katrina: Perspective of a Government Attorney"

24th November 2009 - Speaker: Steven Walker, Advocate on "The Renaissance of Scottish International Arbitration" (the full text of the paper is available here)

7th December 2009 - Workshop on "The Role of Consent in Contract Law: Principles and Practice" introduced by Lord Glennie, the Principal Commercial Judge in the Court of Session. Papers were delivered by Dr Gillian Black and Martin Richardson on formation of contract (a skeleton of Gillian Black's paper is available here); by David Cabrelli and Sean Smith on interpretation of contracts (a skeleton of David Cabrelli's paper is available here); Dr Peter Webster and Roisin Higgins on rectification of contracts; and Laura Macgregor and John MacGregor on agency and contract (a skeleton of Laura Macgregor's paper is available here). The session concluded with a summary by Dr Mark Godfrey, University of Glasgow.

1st February 2010 - Joan Cradden, from Brodies LLP, spoke on "The furore over banker's bonuses and its influence on the development of remuneration policies and the employment contract".

12th March 2010 - The Centre's Annual Lecture was given by Lord Hope of Craighead, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom . The lecture on "Taking the case to London - maybe it's not all over after all". A summary of the event is available here.

2nd June 2010 - workshop held jointly with the Scottish Law Commission: “Insurance Contract Law: Damages for Late Payment and the Insurer's Duty of Good Faith.” The workshop was chaired by Lord Penrose and speakers including David Hertzell, Law Commission; Prof Hector MacQueen, Scottish Law Commission; Lex Dowie, Eversheds LLP and Lindy Patterson QC, Dundas & Wilson LLP.

23 June 2010 - conference organised jointly with the Scottish Branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Faculty of Advocates, the Law Society of Scotland and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors on "The Arbitration (Scotland) Act 2010: a new beginning.” The programme for the event is here, and a review of the event is here.

2nd August 2010 - Professor Irene-Marie Esser, University of South Africa: 'Directors' Duties: The new Companies Act and King III - A South African Perspective’. A summary of the event is available here.

October 2008 - launch for Business Law in Scotland (edited by Gillian Black) and Commercial Law in Scotland by Fraser Davidson and Laura Macgregor.

12th November 2008 - Speaker: Professor Iain MacNeil, University of Glasgow, on "Private Equity"

3rd December 2008 - Speaker: Ms Donna McKenzie Skene, University of Aberdeen on "The balancing of accounts in bankruptcy". 

3rd March 2009 - Book Launch: 'The Unauthorised Agent: Perspectives from European and Comparative Law' edited by Danny Busch and Laura Macgregor, with addresses by Dr Busch, Ms Macgregor and Professor Kenneth Reid. For more information on this event see comments from David Cabrelli and Professor Eric Clive.

26th March 2009 - 'Derivative Actions under the Companies Act 2006' Speaker: Jonathan Barne, Advocate, Axiom Advocates.  For more information on this event see here.

12th May 2009 - 'The Achilleas: Custom and Practice or Foreseeability'  Speaker: The Rt Hon Lord Hoffmann, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.  For more information on this event see here.

8th November 2007 - Speaker: Mr David Cabrelli, University of Edinburgh on "The Companies Act 2006"

4th December 2007 - Speaker: Dr Severine Saintier, University of Sheffield on "Current Developments in Commercial Agency"

17th January 2008 - Speaker: Mr Tom Burns, University of Aberdeen on "A review and re-appraisal of securitisation in light of the subprime loans crisis".

7th February 2008 - Chair: Lord Reed; Speaker: Mr Stephen Woolman, QC delivering The Inaugural Seminar to Celebrate the Opening of The Centre for Commercial Law:  "Scots Commercial Law into the Future".  For more information on this event see here.

4th March 2008 - Lord Bingham of Cornhill, on "Contractual Interpretation".  For more information on this event see here.

22nd April 2008 - Ms Lindy Patterson, Partner, Dundas & Wilson CS LLP, "Implied terms and exclusion and limitation clauses in practice"