School of Law

Dr Bobby Lindsay

  • Senior Lecturer (School of Law)

telephone: 0141 330 3240
email: Bobby.Lindsay@glasgow.ac.uk

Room 524, 8 The Square, School Of Law, University of Glasgow

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980

Biography

Dr Bobby Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Glasgow, where he specialises in delict/tort and international private law. He studied at the University of Glasgow (LLB, First Class) and the University of Oxford (BCL, Distinction) before completing his PhD at Glasgow. At Glasgow, he is Director of Undergraduate Studies, overseeing both the Scots Law and Common Law LLB programmes

His research spans the law of obligations more broadly, with particular work on vicarious liability, illegality, the economic delicts, and accessory liability in both domestic and cross-border contexts.

He is co-author with Professor Stephen Bogle of Thomson's Delictual Liability (7th ed., Bloomsbury Professional, 2025), the standard textbook on the Scots law of delict. He has also co-edited the Research Handbook on International Family Law (Edward Elgar, 2024) with Professor Janeen Carruthers.

His work on the economic delicts and vicarious liability spans both articles and edited collections, including a chapter on cross-border civil conspiracy in Hart's Economic Torts and Economic Wrongs (2021), and contributions on vicarious liability in Scotland (with Dr Mat Campbell) in Hart's Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World (2022) and the Edinburgh Law Review (2024).

His work on defamation with Professor Stephen Bogle has been cited by the New South Wales District Court. He has given evidence to the Scottish Parliament during the passage of the Defamation and Malicious Publications (Scotland) Act 2021. He ensures his work remains impactful by working with Index on Censorship on their campaign to introduce anti-SLAPP (strategic litigation against public participation) measures in Scots law.

Dr Lindsay has served on the Scottish Law Commission's Advisory Panel for its Discussion Paper on Penalty Clauses, and also provided expert input on the delictual aspects of its Discussion Paper on Civil Remedies for Domestic Abuse. He serves as an examiner for the Faculty of Advocates (the Scottish bar) and has held external examiner positions at several Scottish universities. He is also the Scottish case note editor for the Journal of Professional Negligence.

Research interests

Dr Lindsay's research sits at the intersection of domestic private law and private international law. In the former, his work focuses on the law of delict, with particular attention to the economic delicts, vicarious liability, illegality, and defamation. In the latter, he is interested in the cross-border dimensions of private law liability, legal professional privilege, and the enforcement of foreign law claims. A recurring theme across both strands is the role of policy in shaping and constraining legal doctrine, particularly in areas where the law remains unsettled or contested.

He is currently completing a monograph on the cross-border enforceability of foreign public law claims, and is turning to consider aspects of the duty of care in negligence.

Publications

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2025

Bogle, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 and Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2025) Thomson’s Delictual Liability [7th Ed.]. Bloomsbury Professional: London. ISBN 9781526532299

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 and Bogle, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2025) When buddies fall out: The Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 (Gillespie v Wardrop [2025] CSOH 46). Edinburgh Law Review, 29(3), pp. 465-471. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2025.0985)

2024

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 and Campbell, Mat ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4721-2441 (2024) Illegality in the Scots law of delict. In: Understanding Illegal Tort Claims: Comparative Legal Reasoning in Global Perspective. Hart Publishing: Oxford. (Accepted for Publication)

Bogle, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 and Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2024) Serious harm: six lessons since Lachaux. Journal of Media Law, 16(2), pp. 417-439. (doi: 10.1080/17577632.2024.2421061)

Carruthers, Janeen M. and Lindsay, Bobby W.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2024) Introduction to the research handbook on international family law. In: Carruthers, Janeen M. and Lindsay, Bobby W.M. (eds.) Research Handbook on International Family Law. Edward Elgar: Northampton, pp. 2-11. ISBN 9781802207415 (doi: 10.4337/9781802207422.00006)

Carruthers, Janeen M. and Lindsay, Bobby W.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (Eds.) (2024) Research Handbook in International Family Law. Series: Research handbooks in family law series. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781802207415

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2024) The contribution of the UK Supreme Court to international family law. In: Carruthers, Janeen M. and Lindsay, Bobby W.M. (eds.) Research Handbook on International Family Law. Series: Research handbooks in family law. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781802207415

Campbell, Mat ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4721-2441 and Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2024) Refining vicarious liability. Edinburgh Law Review, 28(2), pp. 174-206. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2024.0892)

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2024) Reading the tea leaves: Campbell v James Finlay (Kenya) Ltd. Edinburgh Law Review, 28(1), pp. 123-129. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2024.0880)

2022

Campbell, Mat ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4721-2441 and Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2022) Vicarious liability in Scotland. In: Giliker, P. (ed.) Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World. Hart: Oxford, pp. 197-220. ISBN 9781509939077

Reid, Dot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7306-9680, Campbell, Mat ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4721-2441 and Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2022) General Principles of Contract Law. In: Anderson, Ross G. (ed.) Scots Commercial Law. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 22-73. ISBN 9781474494182

2021

Lindsay, Bobby W. M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2021) Cross-border civil conspiracy. In: Eldridge, John, Douglas, Michael and Carr, Claudia (eds.) Economic Torts and Economic Wrongs. Series: Hart Studies in Private Law. Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781509934775

2020

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2020) Re-evaluating the Revenue Law Rule and the Non-Enforcement of Foreign Tax Claims. Working Paper. University of Glasgow, School of Law.

2019

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2019) The reform of defamation law in Scotland. Media and Arts Law Review, 23(1), pp. 109-114.

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2019) Relegated no longer? The role of malice in the delictual protection of liberty: Whitehouse v Gormley. Edinburgh Law Review, 23(1), pp. 75-82. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2019.0525)

2018

Lindsay, Bobby (2018) Fostering in a new age of vicarious liability? Edinburgh Law Review, 22(2), pp. 294-301. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2018.0489)

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2018) James J Fawcett, Máire Ní Shúilleabháin and Sangeeta Shah, 'Human Rights and Private International Law'. Edinburgh Law Review, 22(2), pp. 315-317. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2018.0493)[Book Review]

2017

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2017) Modified universalism comes to Scotland: Hooley Ltd, petitioners. Edinburgh Law Review, 21(3), pp. 436-441. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2017.0441)

2016

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2016) Review of A Dickinson and E Lein (eds), The Brussels I Regulation Recast. Law Quarterly Review, 132(Jul), pp. 521-524. [Book Review]

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2016) Paul S Davies, Accessory Liability. Edinburgh Law Review, 20(2), pp. 242-244. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2016.0350)[Book Review]

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2016) Penalty clauses in the Supreme Court: a legitimately interesting decision? Edinburgh Law Review, 20(2), pp. 204-210. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2016.0342)

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2016) Andrew Higgins, Legal Professional Privilege for Corporations: A Guide to Four Major Common Law Jurisdictions. Edinburgh Law Review, 20(1), pp. 108-109. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2016.0331)[Book Review]

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Number of items: 22.

Articles

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 and Bogle, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2025) When buddies fall out: The Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 (Gillespie v Wardrop [2025] CSOH 46). Edinburgh Law Review, 29(3), pp. 465-471. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2025.0985)

Bogle, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 and Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2024) Serious harm: six lessons since Lachaux. Journal of Media Law, 16(2), pp. 417-439. (doi: 10.1080/17577632.2024.2421061)

Campbell, Mat ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4721-2441 and Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2024) Refining vicarious liability. Edinburgh Law Review, 28(2), pp. 174-206. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2024.0892)

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2024) Reading the tea leaves: Campbell v James Finlay (Kenya) Ltd. Edinburgh Law Review, 28(1), pp. 123-129. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2024.0880)

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2019) The reform of defamation law in Scotland. Media and Arts Law Review, 23(1), pp. 109-114.

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2019) Relegated no longer? The role of malice in the delictual protection of liberty: Whitehouse v Gormley. Edinburgh Law Review, 23(1), pp. 75-82. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2019.0525)

Lindsay, Bobby (2018) Fostering in a new age of vicarious liability? Edinburgh Law Review, 22(2), pp. 294-301. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2018.0489)

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2017) Modified universalism comes to Scotland: Hooley Ltd, petitioners. Edinburgh Law Review, 21(3), pp. 436-441. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2017.0441)

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2016) Penalty clauses in the Supreme Court: a legitimately interesting decision? Edinburgh Law Review, 20(2), pp. 204-210. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2016.0342)

Books

Bogle, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 and Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2025) Thomson’s Delictual Liability [7th Ed.]. Bloomsbury Professional: London. ISBN 9781526532299

Book Sections

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 and Campbell, Mat ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4721-2441 (2024) Illegality in the Scots law of delict. In: Understanding Illegal Tort Claims: Comparative Legal Reasoning in Global Perspective. Hart Publishing: Oxford. (Accepted for Publication)

Carruthers, Janeen M. and Lindsay, Bobby W.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2024) Introduction to the research handbook on international family law. In: Carruthers, Janeen M. and Lindsay, Bobby W.M. (eds.) Research Handbook on International Family Law. Edward Elgar: Northampton, pp. 2-11. ISBN 9781802207415 (doi: 10.4337/9781802207422.00006)

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2024) The contribution of the UK Supreme Court to international family law. In: Carruthers, Janeen M. and Lindsay, Bobby W.M. (eds.) Research Handbook on International Family Law. Series: Research handbooks in family law. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781802207415

Campbell, Mat ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4721-2441 and Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2022) Vicarious liability in Scotland. In: Giliker, P. (ed.) Vicarious Liability in the Common Law World. Hart: Oxford, pp. 197-220. ISBN 9781509939077

Reid, Dot ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7306-9680, Campbell, Mat ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4721-2441 and Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2022) General Principles of Contract Law. In: Anderson, Ross G. (ed.) Scots Commercial Law. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 22-73. ISBN 9781474494182

Lindsay, Bobby W. M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2021) Cross-border civil conspiracy. In: Eldridge, John, Douglas, Michael and Carr, Claudia (eds.) Economic Torts and Economic Wrongs. Series: Hart Studies in Private Law. Hart Publishing. ISBN 9781509934775

Book Reviews

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2018) James J Fawcett, Máire Ní Shúilleabháin and Sangeeta Shah, 'Human Rights and Private International Law'. Edinburgh Law Review, 22(2), pp. 315-317. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2018.0493)[Book Review]

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2016) Review of A Dickinson and E Lein (eds), The Brussels I Regulation Recast. Law Quarterly Review, 132(Jul), pp. 521-524. [Book Review]

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2016) Paul S Davies, Accessory Liability. Edinburgh Law Review, 20(2), pp. 242-244. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2016.0350)[Book Review]

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2016) Andrew Higgins, Legal Professional Privilege for Corporations: A Guide to Four Major Common Law Jurisdictions. Edinburgh Law Review, 20(1), pp. 108-109. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2016.0331)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Carruthers, Janeen M. and Lindsay, Bobby W.M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (Eds.) (2024) Research Handbook in International Family Law. Series: Research handbooks in family law series. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781802207415

Research Reports or Papers

Lindsay, Bobby ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2020) Re-evaluating the Revenue Law Rule and the Non-Enforcement of Foreign Tax Claims. Working Paper. University of Glasgow, School of Law.

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Supervision

Dr Lindsay would be pleased to hear from those who wish to pursue a topic in international private law or the law of delict.

  • Charman, Troy
    Defamation in the 21st Century: a comparative analysis of the law of defamation in Scotland and South Africa

Along with Professor Dot Reid, Dr Lindsay supervised a Ph.D on islamic family law in Scots law. He has also supervised LLM by Research projects on cross-border cultural heritage and assymetric jurisdiction agreements.

Teaching

  • Obligations 1A (Level 1)
  • International Private Law (Level 2)
  • Negligence Law in Practice (Honours)
  • International Commercial Litigation (Honours)

Professional activities & recognition

Editorial boards

  • 2021: Journal of Professional Negligence

Supplementary

  • Faculty Assessor for International Private Law, Faculty of Advocates