Commercial Law
The focus of commercial law research at Edinburgh Law School is on commercial law, corporate law and governance, banking and financial law, and employment and labour law. Over the years a distinctive ‘Edinburgh’ methodology has been developed, which gives particular weight to legal history, comparative law, and law and economics methodological approaches.
As well as using comparative law as an analytical tool for Scots law, many members of the commercial law research area have engaged in more general comparative-law work. This is reflected in innumerable publications, in participation in a large number of international projects and conferences, and in a steady flow of commercial law scholars in the team to Edinburgh, and of Edinburgh scholars to universities throughout the world.
The fact that Scots law is one of the world’s few ‘mixed’ legal systems - i.e., a legal system that combines (English) common law with (Continental) civil law - is particularly helpful for comparative-law engagement.
Andrew McLean, Lecturer of Law and Political Economy
Arianna Andreangeli, Professor of Competition Law
Emilios Avgouleas, Chair in International Banking Law and Finance
Emilie Ghio, Lecturer in Corporate and Insolvency Law
David Cabrelli, Professor of Labour Law
Jonathan Hardman, Senior Lecturer in Company and Commercial Law
Simone Lamont-Black, Professor of Transnational Trade Law
Longjie Lu, Lecturer in Banking, Corporate and Financial Law
Laura Macgregor Chair of Scots Law
Lorna Richardson, Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law
Remus Valsan, Senior Lecturer in Corporate Law
Ruiqiao Zhang, Senior Lecturer in Corporate Finance, Corporate and Commercial Law
Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law
The Edinburgh Centre for Commercial Law at Edinburgh Law Schools fosters research and promotes excellence in the teaching of commercial law.
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