Professor Simone Lamont-Black

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Professor of Transnational Trade Law

Personal Chair of Transnational Trade Law

Assessorin, Doktor der Rechte (Dr Jur)

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Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2060

Email: Simone.Lamont-Black@ed.ac.uk

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Professor Simone Lamont-Black holds the Chair of Transnational Trade Law at the University of Edinburgh. She trained and practiced law in Germany as Rechtsanwältin before moving to the UK. She holds her Doctorate from Augsburg University (summa cum laude). Before joining Edinburgh University in 2010, she lectured at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Academic Fellow of the Centre for Maritime Law, National University of Singapore.

Research Interests

She currently engages in research in commercial law relating to the food supply chain, in particular contract & trade practices. Of consideration are also boundaries of public procurement with respect to food.

Her research interests further encompass international transport law, whether carriage (of goods or persons) is performed by sea, road, rail or air, or a combination thereof and in the law relating to freight forwarding.

Outputs include “The freight forwarder as carrier: the purpose of house bills of lading” [2024] LMCLQ 72 – 105, (co-edited with Professor D R Thomas) the book 'Current Issues in Freight Forwarding: Law and Logistics' (Lawtext, 2017) and (co-authored with Paul Bugden) several editions of 'Goods in Transit', part of the British Shipping Laws Series (2nd– 4th eds, Sweet and Maxwell, 2010, 2013 and 2018). She is, inter alia, contributor to the leading Scots Law treatise, 'Gloag and Henderson', 'The Law of Scotland' (2022, 2017 and 2012 editions) covering the chapters on “Carriage by Air”, ”Carriage by Land” and “Maritime Law: Carriage by Sea with General Average and Salvage.

Teaching

Her teaching spans across a range of topics in international commercial law, including international sale of goods and transport law, commercial private international law, international commercial arbitration and dispute resolution methods.

She established the Edinburgh Willem Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Team (2010), created the Edinburgh Vis Moot Module and the highly regarded annual Edinburgh Willem Vis Pre-Moot (2011 - 2018).

Visiting Positions

Simone held a number of visiting positions. She was appointed a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Maritime Law, National University of Singapore and a Visiting Fellow at Murdoch University School of Law, Perth, Australia and held positions at the University of Queensland, TC Beirne Law School, Australia; the Institute of International Economic Law, KATTI, University of Helsinki, Finland; the Scandinavian Institute for Maritime Law, University of Oslo, Norway; the University of Lorraine, Nancy School of Law, France and is an academic visitor to the Library of Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany.

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Professor David Fox

Professor of Common Law

B.A., LL.B., Ph.D.

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Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2054

Email: d.fox@ed.ac.uk

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David Fox holds the Chair of Common Law at the University of Edinburgh. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand and received his PhD degree from the University of Cambridge.

Before coming to Edinburgh, he was for many years a Fellow of St John’s College in the University of Cambridge, where his teaching touched on most aspects of private law, concentrating on property, trusts, Roman law and monetary law. He has also held visiting posts at the National University of Singapore. He is a Barrister in England and Wales, with a door tenancy at Maitland Chambers in Lincoln’s Inn.

His research interests have a strong historical and comparative focus.  They concentrate on the formation of modern trust and property doctrine in common law systems, and on the private law applicable to money. 

His recent work has drawn on doctrinal and numismatic sources to develop a legal historical view of money and the law.  His current projects relate to the extension of general private law doctrine to emerging cryptocurrency technology.

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Dr Murray Earle

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Senior Lecturer in Medical Law

Director of Exams Postgraduate (Semester 1)

BA (Hons), LLM, PhD

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Tel: +44 (0)131 651 5567

Email: murray.earle@ed.ac.uk

Murray Earle is a Senior Lecturer in medical law. He is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand (BA Law & International Relations; BA (Hons) Comparative Literature), and the University of Edinburgh (LLM Medical Jurisprudence, Gender, Sexuality and the law; and the Sociology of Law; and PhD in Medical Law).

Murray started his career as a lecturer in medical law at the University of Glasgow, while completing his PhD. That was followed by work as a Senior Researcher at the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe, 2000-2011). From there he developed an independent career, writing, and teaching on, a wide range of online postgraduate medical law courses offered by Edinburgh Law School, at the University of Edinburgh. He is also involved in writing for a range of reference publications, two end of life chapters in Mason and McCall Smith’s Law and Medical Ethics (12th ed.) as well as Scottish Medical Law Essentials (2nd ed.), published in 2025 by Edinburgh University Press.

His current teaching is in both the on Campus and Online Distance Learning environments, in a range of medical law courses, with an emphasis on End of Life Ethics and Law, Law and Ethics at the Start and End of Life, and Mental Health Law. These are taught at Masters degree level, as well as Honours and CPD. He currently acts as Programme Director for the online General LLM in Law and Postgraduate Certificate in Law, as well as for the LLM in Medical Law and Ethics.

Twitter: @murrayearle

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Professor Luís Duarte d’Almeida

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Honorary Professorial Fellow

BA with Honours, LLM, DPhil

Email: luis.duarte.almeida@ed.ac.uk

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I write and teach mainly in the areas of general jurisprudence and legal argumentation. I am also interested in philosophy of language, metaethics, argumentation theory, logic, rhetoric, the philosophical foundations of criminal law, and philosophical aspects of discrimination.

I joined the University of Edinburgh as a Chancellor’s Fellow in 2012. Before that I was a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, and a PERSP post-doctoral researcher at the University of Girona. I was educated in Lisbon (BA, LLM), and at Oxford (DPhil).

I welcome enquiries from prospective doctoral students interested in any substantive topic in the philosophy of law.

Academia: Luís Duarte d'Almeida

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Dr Andrew Cornford

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Senior Lecturer in Criminal Law

Head of Subject Area: Criminal Law

LLB (Hons), BCL, PhD

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Tel: +44 (0)131 651 4085

Email: A.Cornford@ed.ac.uk

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Andrew’s research interests lie within criminal law and legal theory. His work to date has mostly focused on the substantive criminal law, especially questions relating to criminalisation and its legitimacy. His publications have examined the proper limits of the criminal law both in general and in specific contexts. A particular focus of this work has been the expanding scope of inchoate or “preventive” criminalisation in areas such as counter-terrorism law.

Andrew’s current work continues to examine issues within criminalisation theory. He is also beginning to think about the normative foundations of procedural criminal law. His broader interests extend to other aspects of criminal law, justice and punishment, as well as to comparative criminal law and to related topics within legal, moral and political philosophy. He would welcome proposals from prospective research students in his areas of interest, especially for projects relating to criminal law theory and/or criminalisation.

Andrew first moved to Edinburgh in 2012. Before that, he studied at the Universities of Warwick (PhD), Oxford (BCL) and Southampton (LLB).

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Dr Elisenda Casanas Adam

Senior Lecturer in Public Law and Human Rights

Director of Centre for Constitutional Law; Head of Subject Area: Public Law

LLM, PhD

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 9815

Email: Elisenda.Casanas-Adam@ed.ac.uk

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Elisenda Casanas Adam is Lecturer in Public Law and Human Rights and Associate Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law. Her main research interests lie in the comparative analysis of public law, focusing on plurinational constitutionalism, referendums and self-determination, devolution and federalism, and judicial review and the protection of human rights in multi-level systems. She has a special interest in the public law of Scotland and the United Kingdom, and of Catalonia and Spain.

Prior to joining the Law School in 2011, Elisenda was Lecturer in Constitutional Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2009-2011) and the University of Girona (2008-2009). She holds degrees from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spanish law degree and LLM) and the European University Institute, Florence (PhD, ‘Judicial federalism from a comparative perspective: Spain, the United States and the United Kingdom'). She has also been a visiting researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Professor Alexandra Braun

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Lord President Reid Chair of Law

Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange and Impact. Interim REF Unit Coordinator, Director of the LLM in Comparative Private Law

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Tel: +44 (0)131 651 5560

Email: Alexandra.Braun@ed.ac.uk

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Alexandra Braun holds the Lord President Reid Chair in Law at the University of Edinburgh.

Professor Braun completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Genoa and received a PhD in Comparative Private Law from the University of Trento. Prior to joining Edinburgh Law School in August 2017, she was Professor of Comparative Private Law at the University of Oxford, as well as a Fellow and Tutor in Law at Lady Margaret Hall. Between 2004 and 2007 she was a Junior Research Fellow at St. John’s College, Oxford.

Professor Braun is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of European and Comparative Law in Oxford and an Honorary Research Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. She is also an elected Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law as well as an Academic Member of the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. Since 1 January 2021 she is Professor Extraordinary at the Department of Private Law of the University of Stellenbosch.

Professor Braun is the Programme Director of the LLM in Comparative Private Law, Co-Editor of the Edinburgh Private Law Blog, and the Editor of the Edinburgh Studies in Law series published by Edinburgh University Press. She has previously acted as the Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange and Impact (2018 -2020 and 2022) and as Co-Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Private Law (2021-2024).

Professor Braun has broad research interests in the comparative study of law and legal history. She is particularly interested in topics at the intersection of more than one area of the law and the liminal spaces that law creates. Her current research focuses primarily on the comparative study of succession law, the law of trusts and the law of gifts, as well as on the study of the circulation of legal ideas across legal traditions. Her work further explores the power relationships that underpin succession, trusts and gifts. Professor Braun’s monograph Claiming a Promised Inheritance: A Comparative Study (published by Oxford University Press in 2022) was selected as one of the “Law Books of the Year’’ in the German law journal JuristenZeitung in 2023.

Professor Braun is also interested in death studies, the informal aspects of succession planning and of the transfer of wealth of death, as well as the impact of inheritance on questions of intergenerational equality. Her inaugural lecture on ‘Testamentary Responsibility’ published in the Edinburgh Law Review in 2024challenges testamentary freedom as the organising principle of succession law by bringing into sharper focus ‘responsibility’ as another important value in this field.

Other research interests include legal education, the study of the intellectual history of the law, and the development of various forms of legal scholarship and its interaction with, and impact upon, judicial decision-making.

In 2013/2014 Professor Braun was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers spending time both at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. Her research has also been funded by the British Academy and the John Fell Fund (Oxford).

Professor Braun has broad teaching interests. At Undergraduate level she teaches the following courses: ‘Gifts in Context’, ‘Death and the Law’ and ‘Succession and Trust Law’, She further teaches ‘Comparative and International Trusts Law’ and ‘Fundamentals of Comparative Private Law’ at LLM level and UG level.

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