Professor Douglas Brodie is Professor of Employment Law, and Head of School. His main research interests are in the area of labour law, including collective agreements, strike law, employment contracts and the history of labour law in the United Kingdom. He has a secondary interest in the law of delict and, in particular, issues concerning duty of care. He also has an interest in social security law, especially the law relating to trade disputes and short-time working.

Ross Carrick is a doctoral student within the School. His research topic is 'The European Court of Justice as an Institution of Democracy'.

Tom Flynn is a doctoral student within the School. His research topic is 'Judicial Review and the Separation of Powers within European Constitutional Pluralism'.

Dr Massimo Fichera has recently and successfully completed his doctoral degree within the School.  His research topic was: 'The Implementation of the European Arrest Warrant in the European Union: Law, Policy and Practice'.

Navraj Singh Ghaleigh has been the Lecturer in Public Law at Edinburgh since 2003. Previously a barrister in London and Lecturer at King's London, he undertook his graduate work at the University of Cambridge, the European University Institute (Florence) and the University of California, Berkeley (Fulbright Scholar). Navraj's research and teaching has two main strands: electoral law and the law of climate change.

Dr James Harrison is lecturer in International Law. His main areas of research interest are the law of the sea, WTO law and international investment law.  He also researches public law with a particular focus on judicial review and the role of the judiciary in constitutional law.  He also has a keen interest in the interface between international law and domestic law in the context of the United Kingdom.

Professor Chris Himsworth is Professor of Administrative Law. He has research interests which range across much of the public law field. Recent publications have focused on constitutional law in Scotland, administrative law (especially judicial review), local government law and housing law. Another research interest is in environmental law in both its theoretical and more practical aspects.

Kai Tu is a doctoral student within the School. His research topic is 'Constitutional Law of Peoples: China and Her Inner Peripheries'.

Dr Robert Lane is Senior Lecturer in EC Law. His principal areas of interest lie within the various strands of EC law. They include in particular the constitutional and administrative law of the European Union and the European Community, the methods and reasoning of the European Court of Justice, and the law of the internal market and EC competition law.

Dr Cormac Mac Amhlaigh is Lecturer in Public Law. Cormac studied law in Belfast and Dublin before being awarded his PhD in law by the European University Institute which he wrote on the concept of the state in European constitutionalism. His research focuses on the challenges to concepts of law, fundamental rights, sovereignty and state in European integration and globalization more generally in legal and constitutional theory.

Professor Lesley McAra holds the School's Chair in Penology. Her main research interests lie in the general areas of the sociology of punishment and the sociology of law and deviance. Particular interests include: youth crime and juvenile justice; comparative criminal justice; gender, crime and criminal justice; and the impact of multi-level governance on crime control and penal process.

Kasey L McCall-Smith is a doctoral student within the School. Her research topic is '(Re)Defining Human Rights through Reservations to Treaties'.

Dr Claudio Michelon is Lecturer in Law with a particular interest in Jurisprudence. He research currently focuses on (a) practical reason’s structure and the political and constitutional implications of those structural features, and (b) questions relating to the boundaries between public and private law and their philosophical foundations.

Dr Conrado Hübner Mendes is a doctoral student within the School. His research topic is: 'Deliberative performance of constitutional courts'.

Professor Niamh Nic Shuibhne holds the School's Chair in European Union Law and is a joint editor of the European Law Review. Her research interests span various aspects of European Community Law and she is working primarily at present on EU citizenship and the free movement of persons. She is also an expert in the constitutional law of Ireland.

Charalampos (Haris) Psarras is a doctoral student within the School. His research topic is: 'The truth-conditions of legal propositions'.

Professor Drew Scott is Professor of European Union Studies. He is an economist by training, and has for many years researched and taught European economic integration. He has published widely in the area, most recently on subsidiarity, economic and monetary union and economic and social cohesion. He has acted as expert to various EC agencies, including the European Commission and the Statistical Office of the EU. His current research includes the impact of devolution on the UK's European policy-process, and problems of economic policy coordination in a devolved UK.

Professor Jo Shaw is Salvesen Chair of European Institutions, Dean of Research and Deputy Head, College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research focuses on the field of the EU constitution and institutions, particularly in socio-legal and interdisciplinary perspective. Over the years, she has had funding from the ESRC, the British Academy, the AHRC and the European Science Foundation, for many different projects.