Laura Macgregor is a Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law.  This is a research centre which aims to build stronger links between academia and the various parts of the legal community in Scotland.  She is the main contributor to the Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law blog,  http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ecclblog/.  Before becoming an academic Laura spent several years as a solicitor in practice with a major Scottish law firm. 

Laura's interests lie in the field of contract law, specifically agency law.  Her research considers Scots law in its comparative context, both European and global.  She is also interested in legal history.  

She is currently working on a book, The Law of Agency in Scotland for the Scottish Universities Law Institute Series, to be published by W. Green in 2012.

Laura is involved in several projects which focus on the study of European private law.  Together with David Cabrelli, Edinburgh Law School, and Jaap Baaij, University of Amsterdam, she is editing a project on interpretation of commercial contracts as part of the common core of European Private Law project. Further information can be found at www.jus.unitn.it/dsg/common-core/.  This group will meet in Edinburgh on 26 and 27 April 2012.   

She is also involved in a project which compares contract law in Europe with Chinese contract law, convened by Professor Jan Smits of Maastricht University. 

Laura retains strong links with the legal profession and is heavily involved in the provision of CPD training. She welcomes enquiries from law firms on the provision of such training or consultancy.

She welcomes PhD enquiries which relate generally to her fields of interest.  In particular she would be interested in supervising research into agency law or contract law within Europe.