Staff & Research Students
Here you can find information about the Edinburgh School of Law research students, staff, and Edinburgh alumni in legal theory.
Current Research Students in Legal Theory
Martin Kelly – Re-gilding the ‘Golden’ Rule of Legal Construction
Constanza Salgado – Private property and its public dimension
Richard Latta – International law and the duty to obey
Joaquín Reyes – A Reassessment of Just Price Theory
Ismael Martínez – A New Semantics for the Concept of Law: Making Sense of Theoretical Disagreement from a Positivist Standpoint
Recently Completed Research Students in Legal Theory
Paul Burgess – Rhetorical conceptions of the rule of law: a lesbian rule?
Lucas Miotto Lopes – Covenants and Swords: Coercion in Law
Vinicius Vidor – Reasoning Over Claims of Identity
Felipe Oliveira de Sousa – Reason-giving as an act of recognition
Emily Postan – Defining Ourselves: self-construction and the governance of personal biological information
Aisling McMahon – The Place for a ‘European’ morality in the patenting of biotechnology
Jaime Ubilla Fuenzalida – Reflexive Law and Property Rights: Tackling the Regulatory Trilemma of Ecosystems Conservation
Konstantine Eristavi – Law, Space and the Political Subject
Stephen Bogle – The Emergence of the Will Theory in Scots Contract Law
Alexander Latham – Visions of Self-Government: Constitutional Symbolism and the Question of Judicial Review
Noppadon Detsomboonrut – International Law as a Constitutionalized Legal System
Asanga Welikala – Beyond the Liberal Paradigm: The Constitutional Accommodation of National Pluralism in Sri Lanka’
X. Panagia Voyatzis Hernandez – Changing Hearts and Minds in Mexico: a Cognitive-Jurisprudential Approach to Legal Education Reform in a Legal System in Transition
Francisco Saffie Gatica – Taxes as Practices of Mutual Recognition: Towards a General Theory of Tax Law
Wendy van der Neut – Consensual exploitation : the moral wrong in exploitation and legal restrictions on consensual exploitative transactions
Paolo Sandro – Creation and Application of Law: a Neglected Distinction
Chloe Kennedy – The Influence of Religion on the Development of Scots Criminal Law
Charalampos (Haris) Psarras – Law’s Authority and the Division of Moral Labour between Legislation and Adjudication
Ross Carrick – Court of Justice of the European Union as a Democratic Forum
Tom Flynn – Judicial Review and the Separation of Powers within European Constitutional Pluralism
Elizabeth Shaw – Determinism, Criminal Responsibility and Punishment
Daniel Torres Goncalves – The role of Law Interpretation to the Protection of Digital Identity Rights
Peng He – Law of Lawmaking—A Study of Lawmaking from a Legal Theoretical Point of View
Findlay Stark – Culpable Carelessness: Recklessness and Negligence in Scots and English Criminal Law
Staff in Legal Theory
Neil Walker, Regius Professor of Public Law & the Law of Nature and Nations
Claudio Michelon, Professor of the Philosophy of Law
Euan MacDonald, Senior Lecturer in Jurisprudence
Luis Duarte d’Almeida, Professor of Jurisprudence
Zenon Bankowski, Emeritus Professor of Legal Theory
Burkhard Schäfer, Professor of Computational Legal Theory
Sharon Cowan, Professor of Feminist and Queer Legal Studies
Cormac Mac Amhlaigh, Lecturer in Public Law
Maggie O’Brien, Lecturer in Legal Theory
Amalia Amaya Navarro, British Academy Global Professor
Edinburgh Alumni in Legal Theory
There have been some outstanding PhDs in legal theory at Edinburgh. Three out of the six European Awards for the best PhD thesis in Legal Theory have been written at Edinburgh (by Emilios Christodoulidis, Fernando Atria and Scott Veitch). Here is a very brief list (to be updated soon) of some of our alumni: