Current Projects

Gillian Black: Research in the area of personality rights in the UK, in particular the commercial practice of licensing personality rights to third parties and the legal basis for this practice.

David Cabrelli: The law of the contract of employment, in particular the growth in differing behavioural standards and expectations which the common law and the legislature imposes upon employers and the lack of a principle against the disapplication of common law and statutory based employment rights in the context of the common law of the contract of employment.

Professor George L Gretton: Research interests: property law; trust law;
succession law; comparative private law; history of private law; law
of secured transactions; insolvency law; law of sale of goods; law of
negotiable instruments; law of assignment. Current projects include a book on the new law of land registration.

Parker Hood: Research in banking law, in particular lender liability.

Simone Lamont-Black: Research in the field of carriage of goods, in particular with respect to the liability regimes under the various international transport conventions.

Laura Macgregor: (1) New book on agency for the Scottish Universities Law Institute, to be published by W Green. (2) Laura is collaborating with Prof Hector MacQueen and Dr Martin Hogg in order to produce a new volume on obligations for the Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia.

Scott Wortley: Research in the field of commercial and property law and related topics such as debt enforcement (including diligence and rights in security).

Selected Publications

Gillian Black

Woolman on Contract (4th edn, W Green, 2010)

'Publicity and Image Rights in Scots Law' (2010) Edinburgh Law Review 364

Business Law in Scotland, ed Gillian Black, W Green, 2008

David Cabrelli

"The Case Against ‘Outsider Reverse’ Veil Piercing" (2010) 10 Journal of Corporate Law Studies 343-366

"Challenging Unfair Terms: Some Recent Developments'" (2010) Juridical Review 115-137

Commercial Agreements in Scotland: Law & Practice (W Green, 2007)

'The Case Against the Floating Charge in Scotland' (2005) Edinburgh Law Review Vol. 9, Issue 3, 407 - 438.

3. 'The Implied Duty of Mutual Trust and Confidence: An Emerging Overarching Principle?' (2005) Industrial Law Journal Vol. 34: 284 - 307

Parker Hood

'Commercial agents' compensation: England v Scotland?' (2007) Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly 16, 144-151

Dr Simone Lamont-Black

(with Paul Bugden) Goods in Transit (2nd edn) (Sweet & Maxwell, 2010)

'Transporting goods in the EU: an interplay of international, European and national law' (2010) ERA-Forum Vol 11 (1),
pp. 93 - 110

(as formerly Simone Schnitzer), 'Understanding International Trade Law' (LawMatters Publishing, 2006)


Laura Macgregor

Commercial Law in Scotland (2nd edn, with Fraser Davidson), W. Green, 2008

Reissue (2002), Agency and Mandate, Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia, Butterworths and the Law Society of Scotland.

The Unauthorised Agent: Perspectives from European and Comparative Law, (with Danny Busch), Cambridge University Press, 2009

Remus Valsan

"Fiduciary Responsibility and Financial Distress" in Kent Baker and
Gerald Martin (eds) Capital Structure and Corporate Financing Decisions
(Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2011) (with Moin Yahya)

"The Loyalty of Lawyers: A Comment on 3464920 Canada Inc. v. Strother"
(2008) Canadian Bar Review 247 (with Lionel Smith)

"Shareholders, Creditors, and Directors’ Fiduciary Duties: A Law and
Finance Approach" (2007) Virginia Law and Business Review 1 (with Moin
Yahya)

Scott Wortley

'National Report on the Transfer of Movables in Scotland' in Wolfgang Faber and Brigitta Lurger (eds) National Reports on the Transfer of Movables in Europe Volume 2: England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Cyprus (Sellier, 2009) 297-470 (with Andrew J. M. Steven, David Carey Miller, Malcolm Combe)

Scott Wortley, Scottish Land Law Volume 1 (W. Green 2009) (with William M. Gordon)

'Real burdens and personal bar' in (eds) The Promised Land: Property Law Reform (W Green & Son Ltd, 2008) pp 25 - 70

Forthcoming Publications

Parker Hood, Principles of Lender Liability (OUP)