Elspeth Reid's main research interests are in comparative private law. She is currently working on a monograph on The Scots Law of Delict. Her book on Personality, Confidentiality and Privacy in Scots Law was published in 2010 by W Green for the Scottish Universities Law Institute.Her other publications include Personal Bar (with John Blackie) published in 2006, also by the Scottish Universities Law Institute, as well as various edited collections. She has written extensively on the law of delict in comparative perspective, and has also published articles on Russian legal matters. Editor of the Edinburgh Law Review from 2002 until 2006, she is currently Series Editor of the Edinburgh Studies in Law monograph series published by Edinburgh University Press, and a member of the Editorial Boards of the Edinburgh Law Review and of the European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law and also a qualified solicitor.
Courses Taught
Delictual Liability
(Honours) (Course Organiser)
Comparative Environmental Law
(LLM)
Delict & Tort
(LLM) (Course Organiser)
Delict - NOT RUNNING 2012 TO 2013
(Ordinary) (Course Organiser)
This book has been published in the Scottish Universities Law Institute series. It is the first monograph to be published on Personal Bar since 1921. The book divides into a General Part, which analyses the underlying framework of the law, and a Special Part which applies that framework to specific practical contexts.
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Defamation and Political Comment in Post-Soviet Russia' (2013) Review of Central and East European Law 1-36
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Malice in the Jungle of Torts' (2013) Tulane Law Review 901-928
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Protection for Rights of Personality in Scots Law: A Comparative Evaluation' (2007) Electronic Journal of Comparative Law 11.4
Elspeth Christie Reid, Max Loubser 'Liability for Products in the Consumer Protection Bill 2006: A Comparative Critique' (2006) Stellenbosch Law Review 412-453
A comparative analysis of proposed statutory reform of the South African law governing liability for damage caused by defective products (co-written with Max Loubser, University of Stellenbosch).
Scottish Report to the XVIIth International Congress of Comparative Law, subject group on "Protecting legitimate expectations and estoppel".
http://www.ejcl.org/103/art103-11.pdf
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Liability for harm suffered in institutional care: M v Hendron' (2006) Edinburgh Law Review 309-316
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Informed consent: from paternalism to patient autonomy in the UK?' (2004) Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht 135-140
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Personal Bar: Case-law in Search of Principle' (2003) Edinburgh Law Review 340-366
Elspeth Christie Reid, Loubser, Max 'Vicarious Liability for Intentional Wrongdoing: After Lister and Dubai Aluminium in Scotland and South Africa' (2003) Juridical Review 143-161
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Comparative law: perspective from a mixed jurisdiction' (2002) HLS Cahier no 2, 49-57
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Strict liability and comparative law' (2002) HLS Cahier No 2, 61-76
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Case note: Cours de cassation francaise, 1 dec 99 - responsabilite' (2002) European Review of Private Law 529- 546
Abuse of rights has recently achieved growing recognition in many of the mixed legal systems, but in Scotland, where the restricted doctrine of aemulatio vicini has long been accepted, it has been largely ignored. This paper explores the applications of abuse of rights in France, Quebec, Louisiana and South Africa, and considers the reasons for its rejection in England. It also questions whether aemulatio vicini may provide a sufficient foundation for a general doctrine of abuse of rights in Scots law.
Elspeth Christie Reid 'The Law of Trusts in Russia' (1998) Review of Central and East European Law Vol. 24 (2) pp. 43-56
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Review Article - New Books on Russian Law' (1997) Europe-Asia Studies Vol 48 pp.736-738
Elspeth Christie Reid 'The Basis of Liability in Nuisance' (1997) Juridical Review pp. 162-175
Elspeth Christie Reid 'The Russian Federation Constitutional Court, October 1991-1993' (1995) Coexistence (now Europe-Asia Studies) vol 32, 277-303
Elspeth Christie Reid '"Scotland"' in Vernon Valentine Palmer (eds) Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide, 2nd edition (Cambridge University Press, 2012) pp 216-276
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Defamation and Verbal Injury' in Joe Thomson (eds) Delict (W Green, 2010) 12A-01-12A-91
Elspeth Christie Reid 'The Snail in the Ginger Beer Float: Donoghue v Stevenson' in John Grant and Elaine Sutherland (eds) Scots Law Tales (Dundee University Press, 2010) 83-101
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Smith v Littlewoods Organisation Ltd (1985)' in Charles Mitchell and Paul Mitchell (eds) Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort (Hart, 2010) 251-272
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Protecting legitimate expectations and estoppel: Scotland report' in Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson (eds) La confiance légitime et l'estoppel (Société de législation comparée, 2007) 349-376
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Shotlandskoye pravo kak smeshannaya pravovaya sistema (Scots law as a mixed legal system)' in (eds) Themis. Yearbook of the History of Law and Jurisprudence (R.I.Ts. (Moscow), 2002) 118-134
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Scotland Report 1' in Vernon Palmer (eds) Mixed Jurisdictions Worldwide (Cambridge University Press, 2001) 201-239
Elspeth Christie Reid 'English Defamation Reform: A Scots Perspective' (2012) Scots Law Times 18. 111-114
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Rebalancing Privacy and Freedom of Expression' (2012) Edinburgh Law Review 253-258
Elspeth Christie Reid 'No Sex Please, We’re European: Mosley v News Group Newspapers Ltd' (2009) Edinburgh Law Review 116-121
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Wainwright v United Kingdom: Bringing Human Rights Home?' (2007) Edinburgh Law Review 83-88
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Personal Bar: Three Cases' (2006) Edinburgh Law Review 437-442
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Mixed legal systems: Introduction to special issue' (2002) Juridical Review 61-63
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Acquiescence in the Air: William Grant v Glen Catrine Bonded Warehouse' (2001) Juridical Review 191-199
Elspeth Christie Reid 'Financial Loss and Negligent Nuisance' (2000) Scots Law Times 151-153
Grants Awarded
Awarded £28,611 by The Leverhulme Trust for project 'Leverhulme Fellowship - "Personality, confidentiality and privacy in Scots law"', from 01/09/2007 to 31/08/2008
Awarded £3,000 by BA/ACU for project 'Reform of the South African Product Liability Law', from 01/05/2004 to 30/04/2005
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