Current research themes
Reflections of young artists in Syrian opposition-held areas
Arts+Ethics
Reimagining the Law from the Outside In
Exhibitions
British Academy Global Professorship
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The Global Professorships programme began in 2018 and is supported by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and the UK Government’s National Productivity Fund.
The prestigious Global Professorship programme aims to enrich the UK’s international research partnerships and collaborations, as well as strengthen the UK’s research capacity in the humanities and social sciences, by providing overseas scholars the opportunity to relocate to the UK for four years to pursue individual research goals and contribute to UK higher education.
Edinburgh Law School's current British Academy Global Professor is Professor Amalia Amaya Navarro.
Professor Amalia Amaya Navarro - Law, Virtue and Political Community
Dr Amaya Navarro's project argues that the possession of virtue by legal actors is critical to sound legal decision-making and to enhancing community bonds within and beyond the state. It has three main parts, in which she aims to: develop a virtue approach to legal reasoning and judicial ethics and explore its consequences for legal education and institutional design; examine the political implications of the virtue turn in jurisprudence and argue that public virtue is critical to community building; and extend virtue jurisprudence to the international and global context by showing the relevance of virtuous character to legal-decision making.
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships
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The Leverhulme Trust awards funding to talented individuals across academic disciplines, and the Early Career Fellowships are for early career researchers to undertake a significant piece of publishable work.
Edinburgh Law School has an exemplary record of Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships. Current award holders include:
Dr Rebecca Sutton - Frontline land: the everyday life of international humanitarian law
This project investigates the often overlooked factors of the emotional life and perceptual judgments of those who are expected to enact law in a time of war. As the prospect of human-less warfare becomes more realistic, there is an urgent need to grapple with the human element that is slipping away and provide international humanitarian law with a theory of emotion that is missing. Her project will develop the concept of “Frontline Land,” a space of encounter in which different conflict zone actors navigate the interplay of law and emotions on a daily basis.
View Dr Rebecca Sutton's academic profile
