Contemporary Law & Practice (LLM)

Course Timetable & Teaching Team

Timetable

The following courses will be available from September 2012:

Course Month Dates 
Concepts and Developments in Scots Law September 2012 4, 5 & 19
Employment Equality November 2012 2 & 9
Terminating Employment March 2013 1 & 8
Human Rights Law March 2013 26 & 27
Transfers, Redundancy and Reorganisation April 2013 19 & 26
Domestic Abuse June 2013 20 & 21
Research Methods November 2013 13 & 14

Teaching Team

Overall responsibility for the programme rests with the joint Programme Directors, Clare Connelly and Dr Jane Mair. Individual courses will be led by teams of highly qualified academics and practitioners.

Full time members of the academic staff of the School of Law who will contribute to the programme include:

• Professor Noreen Burrows
• Sarah Craig
• Maria Fletcher
• Professor Rosa Greaves
• Dr Frankie McCarthy
• Professor Jim Murdoch
• Professor Robert Rennie
• Dr James Sloan

The programme will be delivered jointly with experts from the legal profession and from other related disciplines. Practitioners who will contribute to the programme include:

• Compass Chambers
• Ronnie Conway, Bonnar and Company  
• Dr John Crichton, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Orchard Clinic
• Dr Raj Darjee, Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Orchard Clinic
• Stephen Miller, MacRoberts
• Claire M. Mitchell, Advocate, Arnot Manderson
• Graham Mitchell, MacRoberts
David Morgan, Burness Paull & Williamsons LLP
• Dr Joe Morrow, President, Mental Health Tribunal Scotland
• Hilary Patrick, Fellow of University of Edinburgh