Dr Mark Godfrey
- Senior Lecturer in Scots Law (Law)
- Advisor of Studies (Social Sciences College Academic and Student Administration)
telephone: 01413303725
email: Mark.Godfrey@glasgow.ac.uk
Mark Godfrey has taught at Glasgow since 2002, following three years as a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen. After undergraduate study at Oxford and Edinburgh, he completed a PhD in private law and legal history at Edinburgh and qualified as a solicitor in Scotland. He was a visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main for six months in 2006, supported by a European visiting research fellowship from the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He has held further visiting fellowships in Frankfurt in 2007 and 2009 and is spending six months in 2012 as a visiting professor at the University of Frankfurt. Mark has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2009, and is currently Editor of the Journal of Legal History, as well as Treasurer and a Trustee of the Society for Scottish Medieval and Renaissance Studies. He is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College, and has also served on the Council of the Stair Society, the Scottish Record Society, the Editorial Board of The Records of the Parliament of Scotland to 1707, as Secretary of the Scottish Legal History Group, and in 2011-12 as National Adjudicator for the English Speaking Union / Essex Court Chambers National Mooting Competition.
Mark’s research and teaching interests are in legal history and the law of obligations. His main research field is the history of central justice, courts, jurisdiction, private law and dispute settlement in medieval and early modern Scotland. He has published extensively on the origins and development of the Court of Session, and on the foundation of the College of Justice in sixteenth-century Scotland.