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Here you can find information about the Edinburgh School of Law staff in legal theory, the research students of the Group, and Edinburgh alumni in legal theory.

Staff in Legal Theory

Professor Zenon Bankowski (pictured right), Professor of Legal Theory

Dr. Sharon Cowan, Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law and Medical Jurisprudence

Dr. Cormac Mac Amhlaigh, Lecturer in Public Law

Dr. Claudio Michelon, Senior Lecturer in Law

Mr. Burkhard Schäfer, Professor of Computational Legal Theory

Professor Neil Walker, Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and 

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Research Students in Legal Theory

Ross Carrick - The European Court of Justice as an Institution of Democracy

Tom Flynn - Judicial Review of Legislation and the Separation of Powers under European Constitutional Pluralism

Daniel Torres Goncalves - The role of Law Interpretation to the Protection of Digital Identity Rights

Peng He - Law of Lawmaking—A Study of Lawmaking from a Legal Theoretical Point of View

Bonnie Holligan - The Protection of Ownership in Scots Law

Chloe Kennedy - The Influence of Religion on the Development of Scots Criminal Law

Felipe Oliveira de Sousa - Reason-giving as a form of recognition: A study on the moral and political nature of legal decision-making 

Asya Ostroukh - Reception of the French Civil Code in Quebec, Louisiana and Francophone Swiss Cantons: A Socio-Legal Study 

Maureen O'Sullivan - Deconstructing Patents at the Edge of Reason

Emily Postan - Revealing the self: How should the law regulate what biotechnologies can tell us about who and how we are? 

Charalampos (Haris) Psarras - The Truth-Conditions of Legal Propositions

Francisco Saffie Gatica - Taxes and Citizenship: An Egalitarian Theory of Tax Law

Paolo Sandro - Administrative Moment’ and Judicial Protection: Outline of a General Framework

Elizabeth Shaw - Determinism, Criminal Responsibility and Punishment 

Luiz Fernando Castilhos Silveira - Communication and Legal Decision-Making: Between the Subjective and the Objective 
  
Findlay Stark - Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in Scots and English Criminal Law

Stephen Thomson - Judicial Review in its Scottish Constitutional Context

Wendy van der Neut - The Moral Wrong in Exploitation and Legal Restrictions of Exploitative Transactions 

X. Panagia Voyatzis Hernandez - Law and Social Change

Asanga Welikala - Beyond the Liberal Paradigm

Edinburgh Alumni in Legal Theory

There have been some outstanding PhDs in legal theory at Edinburgh. Three out of the six European Awards for the best PhD thesis in Legal Theory have been written at Edinburgh (by Emilios Christodoulidis, Fernando Atria and Scott Veitch). Here is a very brief list (to be updated soon) of some of our alumni:

Fernando Atria

Vito Breda

Emilios Christodoulidis

Maksymilian Del Mar

Randy Gordon

James Maclean

Emmanuel Melissaris

Conrado Hübner Mendes

Claudio Michelon

Georgos Mousourakis

Oche Onazi

George Pavlakos

Sundram Soosay

Scott Veitch

Kevin Walton
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