Professor Jill Robbie

  • Professor of Property Law and the Natural Environment (School of Law)

telephone: 0141 330 4176
email: Jill.Robbie@glasgow.ac.uk

403, 5-9 The Square, The Stair Building, University of Glasgow

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908

Biography

Jill obtained her law degree at the University of Edinburgh in 2008. She then went on to complete a PhD entitled "Private Water Rights in Scots Law" at the same institution, supervised by Professor Kenneth Reid and Mr Scott Wortley. Following submission of her doctorate in 2012, Jill pursued becoming a qualified solicitor through obtaining the Diploma in Professional Legal Practice at the University of Edinburgh and undertaking a legal traineeship at Brodies LLP between 2013 and 2015. Jill began as a Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Glasgow in August 2015 and became Senior Lecturer in January 2021. In August 2024, she became Professor of Property Law and the Natural Environment. 

Jill is also currently Deputy Chair for NatureScot, and Chair of the Scottish Beaver Advisory Group. 

Research interests

Jill's research interest lies within property law, the natural environment and sustainability. She investigates the tensions between social justice, economic development and environmental protection in the context of the law regulating land use. She is particularly interested in analysing these tensions in relation to water. Jill is also engaged in comparative law including with the jurisdictions of South Africa, Louisiana and Norway. 

She is a Co-Investigator on an EPSRC Programme Grant on Decentralised Water Technologies for Sustainable Rural Communities. 

Publications

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2025

Combe, Malcolm and Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2025) The cost-of-living crisis and property regulation. Edinburgh Law Review, 29(2), pp. 323-330. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2025.0969)

2024

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 and Cisterna Gaete, Pedro (2024) Water rights and re-codification: lessons from Chile. In: Sagaert, V., Gruyaert, D., Degroote, M., De Schepper, K., Janssen, V. and Vavourakis, F. (eds.) Property Law Reform, Sustainability and the Commons. Series: Property law series. Intersentia. ISBN 9781839704512

Lawson, Elizabeth, Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908, Sloan, William T. and Amezaga, Jaime (2024) Challenges and opportunities for decentralised water technologies in Scotland. Water Policy, 26(2), pp. 189-205. (doi: 10.2166/wp.2024.194)

2023

Sperling, J. R. et al. (2023) A cross-reactive plasmonic sensing array for drinking water assessment. Environmental Science: Nano, 10(12), pp. 3500-3508. (doi: 10.1039/D3EN00565H) (PMID:38073859)

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2023) Water rights. In: Smits, Jan M., Husa, Jaakko, Valcke, Catherine and Narciso, Madalena (eds.) Elgar Encyclopaedia of Comparative Law. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781839105593 (doi: 10.4337/9781839105609.water.rights)

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908, Vavourakis, F., Petersen, V., Allegranti, I. and Radonjić, A. (Eds.) (2023) Property Law Perspectives VIII. Series: Maastricht law series. Eleven International Publishing. ISBN 9789047301714

Lawson, Elizabeth and Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2023) Decentralised Water Technologies: Local Authorities Private Water Supplies Workshop. Other. Decentralised Water Technologies Programme Grant.

Sperling, Justin R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1708-2474, Savage, Laurie, Wilson, Liam T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7005-3587, Cuthill, Calum, Mcguire, Katie, Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908, Sloan, William D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384, Gauchotte-Lindsay, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-5031, Peveler, William J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9829-2683 and Clark, Alasdair W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9797-5776 (2023) Optical Tastebuds for Water Quality Testing. In: SPIE BiOS 2023: Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics, Treatment and Environmental Applications XXIII, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 Jan - 03 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2647396)

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2023) Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler. Critical Social Policy, 43(1), pp. 178-179. (doi: 10.1177/02610183221142261)[Book Review]

Sperling, J. R. et al. (2023) Optical Tastebuds for Water Analysis. In: Applied Industrial Spectroscopy 2023, Munich, Germany, 30 Jul - 03 Aug 2023, ISBN 9781957171241 (doi: 10.1364/AIS.2023.AM2A.6)

2022

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2022) Carbon Markets, Public Interest and Landownership in Scotland. Discussion Paper. Scottish Land Commission.

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908, Bieler, Andreas and Holstead, Kirsty (2022) Living Sustainably with Water: An Interdisciplinary Challenge. Water and Value. Discussion Paper. University of Glasgow.

2021

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2021) The nature of comparing. In: Akkermans, B. and Berlee, A. (eds.) “Sjef-sache”: Essays in Honour of Prof. mr. dr. J.H.M. (Sjef) van Erp on the Occasion of His Retirement. Eleven International Publishing, pp. 17-27.

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2021) Malcolm M. Combe, Jayne Glass and Annie Tindley (eds), Land Reform in Scotland: History, Law and Policy. Edinburgh Law Review, 25(1), pp. 136-137. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2021.0683)[Book Review]

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 and Akkermans, Bram (Eds.) (2021) Property Law Perspectives VII. Series: Maastricht Law Series. Eleven International Publishing. ISBN 9789462361812

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2021) Babes in the woods: the decision of the Scottish Ministers on the application of Helensburgh Community Woodlands Group to exercise the right to buy abandoned, neglected or detrimental land. Edinburgh Law Review, 25, pp. 347-353. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2021.0716)

2020

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908, Henley, Benjamin and Kosovac, Anna (2020) Water Management Worldwide is Failing, It’s Time for a New Approach. Other. Pursuit.

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 and van der Sijde, Elsabé (2020) Assembling a sustainable system: exploring the systemic constitutional approach to property in the context of sustainability. Loyola Law Review, 66, pp. 553-616.

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2020) John MacAskill, Scotland's Foreshore: Public Rights, Private Rights and the Crown, 1840–2017. Edinburgh Law Review, 24(2), pp. 312-313. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2020.0640)[Book Review]

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2020) Living with water. Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, 2020(April),

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2020) Policy Brief. The Sustainable Management of Scotland’s Water Resources: Current Issues in Water Law and Policy. Documentation. University of Glasgow.

Gordon, W.M. and Robbie, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2020) Social control of land use. In: Gordon, W.M., Wortley, S. and Reid, K.G.C. (eds.) Scottish Land Law, Vol. 2, 3rd edition. Sweet and Maxwell: London. ISBN 9780414017832

Morgera, Elisa, Webster, Elaine, Hamley, Graham, Sindico, Francesco, Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908, Switzer, Stephanie, Berger, Thierry, Silva Sànchez, Pedro Pablo, Lennan, Mitchell, Martin-Nagle, Renee, Tsioumani, Elsa, Moynihan, Ruby and Zydek, Antonia (2020) The Right to Water for Food and Agriculture. Series: FAO legislative study (113). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): Rome. ISBN 9789251323014 (doi: 10.4060/ca8248en)

Robbie, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2020) Community rights to buy. In: Gordon, W.M., Wortley, S. and Reid, K.G.C. (eds.) Scottish Land Law, Vol. 2, 3rd edition. Sweet and Maxwell: London. ISBN 9780414017832

2019

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2019) Moving beyond boundaries in the pursuit of sustainable property law. In: Akkermans, Bram and van Dijk, Gijs (eds.) Sustainability and Private Law. Series: Maastricht Law Series. Eleven International Publishing, pp. 59-78. ISBN 9789462369863

2018

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2018) Death, divorce and defective drafting. Edinburgh Law Review, 22(2), pp. 307-313. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2018.0491)

2017

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2017) Policy Brief. Reform of Scottish Water Rights. Documentation. University of Glasgow.

2016

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2016) Finding common ground: R. (on the application of Newhaven Port and Properties Ltd) v East Sussex CC. Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, 2016(6), pp. 487-496.

2015

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 and Combe, Malcolm (2015) A square foot of Old Scotland: ownership of souvenir plots. Edinburgh Law Review, 19(3), pp. 393-398. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2015.0301)

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2015) Private Water Rights. Edinburgh Legal Education Trust. ISBN 9780955633287

2008

Robbie, Jill J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2008) Short-term benefit and the Lands Tribunal. Edinburgh Law Review, 12(1), pp. 114-116. (doi: 10.3366/E1364980908000152)

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Articles

Combe, Malcolm and Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2025) The cost-of-living crisis and property regulation. Edinburgh Law Review, 29(2), pp. 323-330. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2025.0969)

Lawson, Elizabeth, Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908, Sloan, William T. and Amezaga, Jaime (2024) Challenges and opportunities for decentralised water technologies in Scotland. Water Policy, 26(2), pp. 189-205. (doi: 10.2166/wp.2024.194)

Sperling, J. R. et al. (2023) A cross-reactive plasmonic sensing array for drinking water assessment. Environmental Science: Nano, 10(12), pp. 3500-3508. (doi: 10.1039/D3EN00565H) (PMID:38073859)

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2021) Babes in the woods: the decision of the Scottish Ministers on the application of Helensburgh Community Woodlands Group to exercise the right to buy abandoned, neglected or detrimental land. Edinburgh Law Review, 25, pp. 347-353. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2021.0716)

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 and van der Sijde, Elsabé (2020) Assembling a sustainable system: exploring the systemic constitutional approach to property in the context of sustainability. Loyola Law Review, 66, pp. 553-616.

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2020) Living with water. Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, 2020(April),

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2018) Death, divorce and defective drafting. Edinburgh Law Review, 22(2), pp. 307-313. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2018.0491)

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2016) Finding common ground: R. (on the application of Newhaven Port and Properties Ltd) v East Sussex CC. Conveyancer and Property Lawyer, 2016(6), pp. 487-496.

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 and Combe, Malcolm (2015) A square foot of Old Scotland: ownership of souvenir plots. Edinburgh Law Review, 19(3), pp. 393-398. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2015.0301)

Robbie, Jill J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2008) Short-term benefit and the Lands Tribunal. Edinburgh Law Review, 12(1), pp. 114-116. (doi: 10.3366/E1364980908000152)

Books

Morgera, Elisa, Webster, Elaine, Hamley, Graham, Sindico, Francesco, Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908, Switzer, Stephanie, Berger, Thierry, Silva Sànchez, Pedro Pablo, Lennan, Mitchell, Martin-Nagle, Renee, Tsioumani, Elsa, Moynihan, Ruby and Zydek, Antonia (2020) The Right to Water for Food and Agriculture. Series: FAO legislative study (113). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO): Rome. ISBN 9789251323014 (doi: 10.4060/ca8248en)

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2015) Private Water Rights. Edinburgh Legal Education Trust. ISBN 9780955633287

Book Sections

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 and Cisterna Gaete, Pedro (2024) Water rights and re-codification: lessons from Chile. In: Sagaert, V., Gruyaert, D., Degroote, M., De Schepper, K., Janssen, V. and Vavourakis, F. (eds.) Property Law Reform, Sustainability and the Commons. Series: Property law series. Intersentia. ISBN 9781839704512

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2023) Water rights. In: Smits, Jan M., Husa, Jaakko, Valcke, Catherine and Narciso, Madalena (eds.) Elgar Encyclopaedia of Comparative Law. Edward Elgar. ISBN 9781839105593 (doi: 10.4337/9781839105609.water.rights)

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2021) The nature of comparing. In: Akkermans, B. and Berlee, A. (eds.) “Sjef-sache”: Essays in Honour of Prof. mr. dr. J.H.M. (Sjef) van Erp on the Occasion of His Retirement. Eleven International Publishing, pp. 17-27.

Gordon, W.M. and Robbie, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2020) Social control of land use. In: Gordon, W.M., Wortley, S. and Reid, K.G.C. (eds.) Scottish Land Law, Vol. 2, 3rd edition. Sweet and Maxwell: London. ISBN 9780414017832

Robbie, J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2020) Community rights to buy. In: Gordon, W.M., Wortley, S. and Reid, K.G.C. (eds.) Scottish Land Law, Vol. 2, 3rd edition. Sweet and Maxwell: London. ISBN 9780414017832

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2019) Moving beyond boundaries in the pursuit of sustainable property law. In: Akkermans, Bram and van Dijk, Gijs (eds.) Sustainability and Private Law. Series: Maastricht Law Series. Eleven International Publishing, pp. 59-78. ISBN 9789462369863

Book Reviews

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2023) Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler. Critical Social Policy, 43(1), pp. 178-179. (doi: 10.1177/02610183221142261)[Book Review]

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2021) Malcolm M. Combe, Jayne Glass and Annie Tindley (eds), Land Reform in Scotland: History, Law and Policy. Edinburgh Law Review, 25(1), pp. 136-137. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2021.0683)[Book Review]

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2020) John MacAskill, Scotland's Foreshore: Public Rights, Private Rights and the Crown, 1840–2017. Edinburgh Law Review, 24(2), pp. 312-313. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2020.0640)[Book Review]

Edited Books

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908, Vavourakis, F., Petersen, V., Allegranti, I. and Radonjić, A. (Eds.) (2023) Property Law Perspectives VIII. Series: Maastricht law series. Eleven International Publishing. ISBN 9789047301714

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 and Akkermans, Bram (Eds.) (2021) Property Law Perspectives VII. Series: Maastricht Law Series. Eleven International Publishing. ISBN 9789462361812

Research Reports or Papers

Lawson, Elizabeth and Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2023) Decentralised Water Technologies: Local Authorities Private Water Supplies Workshop. Other. Decentralised Water Technologies Programme Grant.

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 and Jokubauskaite, Giedre (2022) Carbon Markets, Public Interest and Landownership in Scotland. Discussion Paper. Scottish Land Commission.

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908, Bieler, Andreas and Holstead, Kirsty (2022) Living Sustainably with Water: An Interdisciplinary Challenge. Water and Value. Discussion Paper. University of Glasgow.

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908, Henley, Benjamin and Kosovac, Anna (2020) Water Management Worldwide is Failing, It’s Time for a New Approach. Other. Pursuit.

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2020) Policy Brief. The Sustainable Management of Scotland’s Water Resources: Current Issues in Water Law and Policy. Documentation. University of Glasgow.

Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908 (2017) Policy Brief. Reform of Scottish Water Rights. Documentation. University of Glasgow.

Conference Proceedings

Sperling, Justin R. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1708-2474, Savage, Laurie, Wilson, Liam T. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7005-3587, Cuthill, Calum, Mcguire, Katie, Robbie, Jill ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5376-8908, Sloan, William D. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9450-7384, Gauchotte-Lindsay, Caroline ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4970-5031, Peveler, William J. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9829-2683 and Clark, Alasdair W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9797-5776 (2023) Optical Tastebuds for Water Quality Testing. In: SPIE BiOS 2023: Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics, Treatment and Environmental Applications XXIII, San Francisco, CA, USA, 28 Jan - 03 Feb 2023, (doi: 10.1117/12.2647396)

Sperling, J. R. et al. (2023) Optical Tastebuds for Water Analysis. In: Applied Industrial Spectroscopy 2023, Munich, Germany, 30 Jul - 03 Aug 2023, ISBN 9781957171241 (doi: 10.1364/AIS.2023.AM2A.6)

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Grants

Dr Robbie has been awarded the following grants:

 

2021
Jill is a Co-I on a £5.9m EPSRC Programme Grant entitled "Decentralised Water Technologies" which will run 2021-2026. This project is led by Prof William Sloan, Professor of Environmental Engineering at the University of Glasgow, and aims to accelerate the delivery of decentralised water technologies for both water and wastewater services for sustainable rural communities.

2018
£1,000 was awarded to Jill from the John Robertson Bequest for a research collaboration with Dr Elsabe van der Sijde, University of Stellenbosch, on the topic “Micro and macro applications of the systemic constitutional approach to property regulation in the context of sustainability.” Dr van der Sijde will be a visiting researcher at the University of Glasgow in May 2018.  

£5,000 was awarded to Jill, Dr Anna Chadwick and Prof George Pavlakos from the University of Glasgow, College of Social Sciences Strategic Research Fund for the proposal “Water as a Global Resource - Meeting the Challenges”. The funds will be used to hold a number of workshops to identify the needs of stakeholder communities concerning access to water. 

£4,100 was awarded to Jill from the Carnegie Research Incentive Grants for a 2 month comparative research trip to University of Oslo, Norway from June to August 2018. 

2017
£7,500 was awarded to Jill from the Royal Society of Edinburgh Arts and Humanities Small Research Grants for a 2 month comparative research trip to Loyola University in Louisiana from March to May 2018 and related knowledge exchange events. 

£1,000 was awarded to Jill from the Clark Foundation for Legal Education for attendance at the South African Research Chair in Property Law International Conference 2017 and one week’s comparative law research trip in Stellenbosch, South Africa. 

2016
£1,100 was awarded to Jill from the University of Glasgow’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account to hold a one day workshop at the University of Glasgow exploring how the law of private water rights in Scotland needs to be reformed.  

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Research datasets

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2023

Sperling, J. R. , Poursat, B., Savage, L., Christie, I., Cuthill, C., McGuire, K. , Karimullah, A. S. , Robbie, J. , Gauchotte-Lindsay, C. , Peveler, W. J. and Clark, A. W. (2023) A nanoplasmonic sensor array for optical inline drinking water assessment: a pilot study with rural Scottish water treatment works. [Data Collection]

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