Dr Stephen Coutts

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Lecturer in EU Law

Director of Equality and Diversity and Inclusion

BCLF, LLM, PhD

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Tel: 01316502006

Email: scoutts@ed.ac.uk

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Stephen Coutts is a Lecturer in European Union Law. He is a member of the editorial board of European Papers and formerly on the editorial board of the Irish Journal of European Law. He is on the Advisory Board of the Irish Centre of European Law and a former President and current Council member of the Irish Association of Law Teachers. 

His areas of research include the pre-requisites and dynamics of legal integration in an EU setting, EU citizenship and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and EU constitutional law and welcomes PhD applications from any of these fields. He is particularly interested in the interaction of transnational and supranational legal phenomena. His approach combines close reading and deconstruction of legal materials informed by theoretical insights drawn from political theory, criminal law theory and philosophy. He has presented and published widely on these topics.

People

Alasdair Cameron

Alumni profile - Alasdair Cameron

19 July 2023
Frankie Wood

Law School alumna receives award from  Ontario Bar Association

17 July 2023
Opening of the Academic Year Alumni Lecture

Opening of the Academic Year Alumni Lecture 2023

Wed 27 September 2023 17:30 - 19:30

law and tech

Law and technology – and their perspectives on the people they serve

Thu 20 July 2023 15:00-16:00

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What Draupadi Said to Penelope

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Professor Norma Dawson sitting at a table receiving her honorary degree

Professor Norma Dawson awarded honorary degree by Edinburgh Law School

10 July 2023

Dr Johanna Hoekstra

Lecturer in Commercial Law

Director of Quality Assurance

PhD in Law (University of Essex)
Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (University of Greenwich)
Master’s in international law (University of Bordeaux IV)
MSc in European Public Policy (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Bachelor in European Studies (Law & Policy) The Hague University of Applied Sciences

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Email: Johanna.Hoekstra@ed.ac.uk

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Johanna Hoekstra is a lecturer in commercial law at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, she worked as a lecturer at the University of Essex and the University of Greenwich. She teaches international commercial arbitration, business & human rights, and international commercial law.

Johanna’s research interests are in business & human rights and in international contract law with a focus on the harmonisation of international commercial law and dispute resolution. She has published on the legal authority and the use of non-state rules in international contracts as well as on non-financial reporting, human rights and contract law, and international arbitration.

Johanna is a member of the Global Business & Human Rights Association and a member of the ESRAN Network. She co-organises the ‘interrogating the corporation’ stream for the Socio-Legal Studies Association annual conference.

Johanna holds a PhD from the University of Essex, an MSc in European Public Policy from Birkbeck College and a Master’s in international law from the University of Bordeaux.

 

People

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AI and the Justice System

30 June 2023
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Law School colleagues win at the CAHSS Recognition Awards

29 June 2023
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