Contemporary Law & Practice (LLM)

Course Timetable & Teaching Team

Timetable

The following courses will be available from September 2011:

Course Month Dates 
Adoption Law and Practice December 2011 12 & 13
Terminating Employment TBC TBC
Workplace Contracts TBC TBC
Family Friendly Employment March 2012 21 & 28
Transfers, Redundancy and Reorganisation TBC TBC
Domestic Abuse TBC TBC
Human Rights Law May 2012 15 & 16
Immigration and Asylum June 2012 14 & 15
Research Methods August 2012 28 & 29
Concepts and Developments in Scots Law September 2012 4, 5 & 19
Employment Equality September 2012 7 & 14
Issues of Collective Employment Law October/November 2012 26 Oct & 2 Nov

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:

• Ronnie Conway, Bonnar and Company
• Compass Chambers
• 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
• Dr Joe Morrow, President, Mental Health Tribunal Scotland
• Hilary Patrick, Fellow of University of Edinburgh