School of Law

Research Grants

Members of the School of Law have obtained grants, funding, and recognition from a variety of institutions and external bodies. The following is a selection.

2013

  • Prof Ronan Deazley (PI), Centre for Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise & Technology (CREATe), and Prof Martin Kretschmer, Director of CREATe, have been awarded the sum of £15,000 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for the CREATe launch event on 1-February-2013.
  • Dr Andreas Rahmatian (PI) has been awarded the sum of £2,200 by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland for research travel to Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, USA. Researching Lord Kames.

2012

  • Prof Rosa M Greaves (PI), has been awarded the sum of £5,000 by The Modern Law Review for MLR Scholarships.
  • Prof Ronan Deazley (PI), Centre for Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise & Technology (CREATe), Prof R Boyle, Prof G Doyle, and Prof P Schlesinger, CCA – Theatre Film and TV Studies and Dr IG Anderson, HU – Arts and Media Informatics (HATII), has been awarded the sum of £2,242,168 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
  • Prof Ernest Metzger (PI), has been awarded the sum of £6,000 by The Clark Foundation for Legal Education for a Conference on Legal History and Roman Law in Memory of Alan Rodger.
  • Prof Lindsay Farmer, and Dr F Leverick (PI), has been awarded the sum of £6,943 by The Clark Foundation for Legal Education for a Conference and Public Lecture in honour of Sir Gerald Gordon.
  • Dr Andreas Rahmatian (PI), has been awarded the sum of £500 by The Clark Foundation for Legal Education for Academic research on the true relevance of the Institutional Writer in Scots legal practice today.
  • Dr John Finlay (PI) has been awarded the sum of £41,601 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for research on Legal Practice in Eighteenth-century Scotland.
  • Prof Ronan Deazley (PI) has received an amount of £15,000 from the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council for ISG - EPSRC:  CREATe Startup Activities.
  • Dr Mark Godfrey  has received an award from the Gerda Henkel Foundation for the sum of 36,900 euros jointly with Professor Remco van Rhee of the University of Maastricht to conduct a three-year collaborative research project on "The Comparative History of Central Courts in Europe and the Americas".   The project will focus on the period 1400 and 1700, tracing the origins and jurisdiction of European and American central courts and tribunals, and how they became accepted and embedded within the existing structures of jurisdiction and courts.
  • Dr Mark Godfrey  has been awarded the sum of £23,062 from the Johan Wolfgang Goethe - Universitat, for research on Extrajudicial and Judicial Conflict Resolution in Early Modern Scotland.
  • Dr Ross G Anderson and Mr J MacLeod have been awarded the sum of £4,062 by theModern Law Review (MLR) for research on Private Law in Multilingual Jurisdictions.
  • Dr Jane Mair with Prof Fran Wasoff, CRFR, University of Edinburgh have been awarded (c£74,000) from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) small grants fund for a project entitled All Settled?  Private ordering in Scots family law with a start date of 1 April 2012.


2011

  • Dr Ruth Dukes  was awarded a £65,675 Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellowship in 2011 for research on the Constitutional Function of Labour Law.
  • Ms Sarah Craig secured funding of £45,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in November 2011 for research into the experience of the asylum process. 
  • Prof Lindsay Farmer secured a £18,106 studentship in 2011 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
  • Prof Jim Gallagher was awarded £6,000 from the Social Sciences Research Council for research in Devolution and Public Policy and £30,000 from Windsor Life for Social Policy Research in 2011.
  • Prof Tom Mullen secured funding of £2,000 from The Clark Foundation for Legal Education to host two Workshops on Scotland's Constitutional Future: the legal issues, in collaboration with Prof Stephen Tierney of Edinburgh University.
  • Dr Fiona Leverick secured £1,000 from The Clark Foundation in 2011 to organise the Sir Gerald Gordon Seminar in Criminal Law.
  • Dr Frankie McCarthy was awarded £750 in 2011 from the NHS GGC for research in the field of sexual health.
  • Prof Jim Murdoch was awarded £7,650 in 2011 from the Council of Europe for research on Human Rights in Moldovia.
  • Prof Christian Tams was awarded £5,000 from the British Academy in 2011 for research on Foreign Investment.
  • Prof Nicholas Tsagourias was awarded £7,420 in 2011 from the British Academy for research on collective security.
  • Prof Iain MacNeil secured funding from Hart Publishing to help fund a conference on financial regulation held at LSE in November 2011.
  • Prof Emilios Christodoulidis secured £12,795 in 2011 from Altonaer Stiftung fur philosophische Grundlagenforschung for an ASFPG Scholarship in Legal Theory.
  • Prof Christian Tams secured a Thyssen Foundation research grant of £80,000 in 2011 together with a grant of 10,000 euros towards publication costs and editorial assistance from the German Federal Foreign Office, Berlin in support of research on the Statute of International Court of Juctice (held with Professors Zimmermann, Tomuschat and Oellers-Frahm).


2010

  • Dr Aileen McHarg secured Fellowship funding from the Leverhulme Trust of £36,010 in 2010 for research on The Politics of Adjudication.
  • Prof Christian Tams has secured funding from the MLR Seminar Fund and the Polish Embassy to fund a conference on the Pemanent Court of International Jstice with Professor Malgosia Fitzmaurice of QMW London, to be held in november 2010.
  • Dr Jane Mair was successful in securing £950 of ASRF seedcorn funding for a workshop on Religion and Family Law.
  • Dr Clare Connolly was successful in securing a £6,500 grant from the Law Commission of England and Wales for research on "Fitness to Plead in Scotland".
  • Prof Ronan Deazley   and Dr Ross Anderson were successful in securing funding of £2,250 from The Chancelor's Fund at the University of Glasgow to assist in the digiisation and dissemination of William Forbes' 7-volume manuscript:  The Great Body of the Law in Scotland.
  • Prof Shela McLean has received 16000 Swiss francs, plus the equivalent in accommodation, for an international symposium on regulating pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, from the Brocher Foundation (Geneva).  Symposium held in Geneva in July 2010.


2009

  • Dr Ruth Dukes and Prof Emilios Christodoulidis have been awarded a grant of £4,000 by the Modern Law Review.  The grant will be used to finance a series of seminars on the topic of ‘Constitutionalising Employment Relations’ with papers from Harry Arthurs, Alain Supiot and Gunther Teubner.
  •  Professors Emilios Christodoulidis, Scott Veitch, George Pavlakos (Antwerp and Glasgow) and Patricia Popellier (Antwerp) have been awarded the sum of €90,000 by the Internationalisation Fund of the University of Antwerp for a research project entitled: 'Multi-layered Polities and the Search for the Common Good: A Constitutional Puzzle for the European Polis'.
  • Prof Iain MacNeil and Prof Justin O'Brien, Visiting Professor at Glasgow and Professor of Corporate Governance at CAPPE, have secured £50,000 funding to support an international conference entitled 'The Future of Financial Regulation', which will run in Glasgow on 30-31 March 2009.  Funding was secured from ESRC World Economy and Finance Programme, GOVNET, CAPPE, TIRI, and The Chancellor's Fund at the University of Glasgow.


2008

  • Prof Lindsay Farmer is part of a team (with the Universities of Stirling and Warwick) which has been awarded a £625,000 Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to look at developing a normative theory of criminalization.  Two PhD studentships are associated with the grant. The project will run for 4 years commencing in February 2008.
  • Dr Laura Williamson is the recipient of a Wellcome Trust Fellowship in the amount of £155,820 to pursue research under the title 'Health Ethics in the Age of Autonomy: Public Engagement and the Social Challenges of Health Policy' (2008).
  • Prof Emilios Christodoulidis, part of a team with the Edinburgh College of Art, has been awarded a £96,000 speculative grant by the AHRC on ‘The Species of Origin’ exploring the influence of Darwin in arts and philosophy (2007-08).


2007 and prior

  • Prof Sheila McLean and Dr Laura Williamson received £152,219 from the AHRC under the title 'An Ethical and Legal Critique of Alcohol Policies in the United Kingdom' (2007).
  • Prof Sheila McLean and Dr Laura Williamson received £50,815 from the British Academy under the title 'Alcohol in the Age of Autonomy: Finding a Safety Net for the Alcohol Dependent in Choice-led Public Health Policies' (2007).
  • Ms Maria Fletcher and Ms Sarah Craig were awarded £60,412 by the Nuffield Foundation in 2006 for the study of immigration and asylum appeals in Scotland.
  • Prof Sheila McLean received £25,561 from the Wellcome Trust to study ethical and practical concerns regarding changes to human tissue legislation (2005).
  • Prof Sheila McLean received £27,349 from The New Zealand Law Foundation to conduct a comparative study on the impact of the Human Genome Project (2005).
  • Prof Sheila McLean was awarded £229,396 by the Wellcome Trust in respect of a project on Ethical Legal Governance in Health Care (2004-7).
  • Prof Charles Woolfson received a Marie Curie Chair Excellence Award of €454,000 from the European Commission (2004-07).
  • Ms Sarah Craig, Prof Tom Mullen, and Prof Jim Murdoch received £40,073 from the Scottish Executive to study the use of the Human Rights Act in the Scottish courts (2003-04).
  • Ms Clare Connelly and others received £69,000 from the Scottish Executive to evaluate the Protection from Abuse (Scotland) Act 2001 (2002-03).
  • Prof Charles Woolfson received €78,872 from the European Commission under the Improving Human Potential Programme of the Fifth Framework (2001-03).
  • Prof Sheila McLean was awarded £48,644 by the Department of Health to prepare a study on the legal and ethical aspects of xenotransplantation (2001).