POSTPONED - Structure of the Law of Delict

*** This event has been postponed to a later date ***

 

About the event
Delict is central to Scots law and to the LLB curriculum. It has not, however, been subject to the sustained comparative and historical examination that other areas have enjoyed. The resulting lack of clarity concerning its structure has both hampered scholarly analysis and rendered the subject less accessible to students.

Two seminars,  supported by the Clark Foundation for Legal Education, will address these concerns with the aid of insights from elsewhere and improve Scots law’s engagement with broader debates. They will provide an opportunity for teachers, researchers and professionals to consider the subject’s future in Scotland.

The first, held in Edinburgh, will examine delict’s structure and relationship with wider private law. The second, to be held in Glasgow after the summer, will focus on the pedagogical implications of the first.

The programme for the first seminar is as follows:

11.15–11.30 - Welcome
11.30–12.15 - Historical Taxonomy of Delict In Scotland (Dr John MacLeod)
12.15–13.00 - Delict’s relationship with the law of property and persons (Prof Elspeth Reid)
13.00–13.45 - Lunch
13.45–14.30 - Debates around delict’s structure in Germany (Prof Nils Jansen)
14.30–15.15 - Reforms of French law of obligations and responsabilité civile (Prof Paula Giliker)
15.15–15.45 - Afternoon break
15.45–16.30 - Rights based theories of tort (Dr Jonathan Morgan)
16.30–17.15 - The role of philosophical, political and economic analyses (Dr Stephen Bogle)
17.15–17.45 - General discussion