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Professor Burkhard Schafer is to lead a research strand on governance and regulation in the decentralised digital economy. His work will be undertaken within a new £10 million research centre that aims to reshape the future of the digital economy with the help of artificial intelligence and bl

Professor Susan McVie has been awarded a fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) for her contribution to social science. The Academy of Social Sciences has named 73 leading UK social scientists to a new cohort of fellows for 2020. All have been elected for their outstanding contribution

An Edinburgh Law School academic is set to be part of a new £2.1m research study investigating the risks of COVID-19 on Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) healthcare workers. Jointly funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), the Uni

A Scot working as a US lawyer has described her journey from Edinburgh Law School to a top American firm. Speaking to GlobalLawyersConnect, Eilidh Reid recounts a journey that began with an exchange year at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law before an LLM at Duke University and ult

A blog written by Professor David Cabrelli of Edinburgh Law School along with research assistant Jessica D’alton has been featured in the House of Commons Library Briefing Paper 8880. Professor Cabrelli’s work on legal matters relating to COVID-19 was referred to three times in the

Several students of Edinburgh Law School have been accepted to the 2020 cohort of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U), which supports “students who are committed to take action and address the world’s most pressing challenges”.

Edinburgh Law School's Dr Guido Rossi has been awarded the Robert Feenstra Prize for the best article published in the Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit / The Legal History Review during the years 2017-2019. His article, entitled The barratry of the shipmaster in early

Edinburgh Law School has closed down and all teaching and assessment has moved online, following the advice of the UK and Scottish governments. LLB exams, however, will proceed and will be conducted online.

Laura McBrien has been appointed director of the diploma in professional legal practice at Edinburgh Law School. Prior to joining the law school, she worked in a number of different roles in professional legal education at BPP University in London, most recently as programme leader for the graduate

A law student who was awarded two prestigious prizes for outstanding achievements over the course of her LLB has discussed her experience studying at Edinburgh Law School. Iona Bonaventura was awarded the Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize Scholarship, the law school's top prize, given to “a

Edinburgh Law School alumna Karina McTeague will join this year’s graduands to receive an honorary doctor of laws at the university’s graduation ceremony on Saturday. Ms McTeague graduated from Edinburgh Law School with an LLB in the 1980s and has had a distinguished career in law a

Professor Laura Macgregor has become the first woman to be appointed to the chair of Scots law in its 297-year history. The chair of Scots law at Edinburgh Law School was established in 1722, with Alexander Bayne its first incumbent, it was subsequently held by legal luminaries such as John Ers

Lord Tyre led over 100 people on the Edinburgh Legal Walk 2019 yesterday, raising over £5,000 for the Access to Justice Foundation in the process.

This year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe will see staff at Edinburgh Law School take to the stage and Old College become one of the city's hundreds of venues. For the second year in a row, Dr Smita Kheria, senior lecturer in intellectual property law, will perform her show No copyright, no problem? as

Edinburgh Law School has announced that Dr Maria Amalia Amaya Navarro will join the University of Edinburgh as part of the second cohort of the British Academy’s Global Professorships programme. The Global Professorships programme began in 2018 and is supported by the Department for Business,