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Edinburgh Law School

Index Edinburgh Law School

Edinburgh Law School, founded in 1707, is a school within the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom dedicated to research and teaching in law. [1]

71 relations: Adam Tomkins, Alan Watson (legal scholar), Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Alexander McCall Smith, Alexandra Braun (legal scholar), Angus Stewart, Lord Stewart, Anne Smith, Lady Smith, Archie Elliott, Lord Elliott, Brian Gill, Lord Gill, Colin Campbell, Lord Malcolm, Colin Sutherland, Lord Carloway, Colin Tyre, Lord Tyre, David Edward, David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, David Sellar, David W. Garland, Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth, Diploma in Professional Legal Practice, Donald Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon, Duncan Menzies, Lord Menzies, Edinburgh Student Law Review, Ernest Wedderburn, Eveline MacLaren, Hector MacQueen, Helen Darville, Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail, J. Kenyon Mason, James Drummond Young, Lord Drummond Young, James McGhie, Lord McGhie, John Beckett, Lord Beckett, John Wheatley, Lord Wheatley, Josephine Gordon Stuart, Judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Kenneth Reid (legal scholar), Legal education in the United Kingdom, List of first women lawyers and judges in Europe, List of In Our Time programmes, List of University of Glasgow people, Lord President Reid Professor of Law, Matthew Clarke, Lord Clarke, Medical Law International, Neil Brailsford, Lord Brailsford, Neil MacCormick, Neil MacGregor, Neil Walker (lawyer), Nicol Stephen, Nigel Emslie, Lord Emslie, Old College, University of Edinburgh, Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge, Paul Cullen, Lord Pentland, ..., Philip Brodie, Lord Brodie, Raymond Doherty, Lord Doherty, Regius Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations, Robert Black (lawyer), Robert Reed, Lord Reed, Ronald Mackay, Lord Eassie, Sandy Wylie, Lord Kinclaven, Scots law, SCRIPTed, Stair Society, Stephen Woolman, Lord Woolman, Thomas Dawson, Lord Dawson, Tods Murray, Unity Dow, University of Aberdeen School of Law, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow School of Law, Valerie Stacey, Lady Stacey, William Gloag, William Nimmo Smith, Lord Nimmo Smith, 1707 in Scotland. Expand index (21 more) »

Adam Tomkins

Adam Tomkins (born 28 June 1969) is an academic and politician based within Scotland.

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Alan Watson (legal scholar)

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Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart

Alexander John Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart (18 November 1924 – 1 April 2000) was a Scottish advocate and judge.

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Alexander McCall Smith

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Alexandra Braun (legal scholar)

Alexandra Braun is an Italian legal scholar based at the University of Edinburgh, where she is Lord President Reid Professor of Law at Edinburgh Law School.

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Angus Stewart, Lord Stewart

Angus Stewart, Lord Stewart (born 14 December 1946) is a Scottish lawyer and retired judge.

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Anne Smith, Lady Smith

Anne Mather Smith, Lady Smith, (born 16 March 1955) is a Scottish lawyer, and a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.

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Archie Elliott, Lord Elliott

(Walter) Archibald Elliott, Lord Elliott MC (6 September 1922 – 9 August 2008) was a Scottish lawyer and judge.

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Brian Gill, Lord Gill

Brian Gill, Lord Gill, (born 25 February 1942) is a retired Scottish judge and a legal academic.

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Colin Campbell, Lord Malcolm

Colin Malcolm Campbell, Lord Malcolm, PC (born 1953) is a Scottish lawyer, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.

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Colin Sutherland, Lord Carloway

Colin John MacLean Sutherland, Lord Carloway, (born 20 May 1954), is a Scottish advocate and judge.

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Colin Tyre, Lord Tyre

Colin Jack Tyre, Lord Tyre, CBE (born 17 April 1956), is a Scottish lawyer, former President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.

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David Edward

Sir David Alexander Ogilvy Edward (born 14 November 1934) is a Scottish lawyer and academic, and former Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities.

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David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead

James Arthur David Hope, Baron Hope of Craighead, (born 27 June 1938) is a retired Scottish judge who served as the first Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom from 2009 until his retirement in 2013, having previously been the Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

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David Sellar

William David Hamilton Sellar, MVO, MA, LLB, FRHistS, FSA (Scot) (born 27 February 1941) served as Lord Lyon King of Arms from 2008 to 2014.

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David W. Garland

David Garland is Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and professor of sociology at New York University, and professorial fellow in Criminology at Edinburgh Law School.

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Derek Emslie, Lord Kingarth

Derek Robert Alexander Emslie, Lord Kingarth QC (born 21 June 1949) is a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session.

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Diploma in Professional Legal Practice

The Diploma in Legal Practice (from its introduction in 1980 until 2012/13) or Diploma in Professional Legal Practice (from 2012/13) is a Scottish postgraduate qualification required in order to practise law in Scotland, as either a solicitor or an advocate.

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Donald Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon

Donald Sage Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon, PC, QC (born 30 January 1946) is a former judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, and a former Lord Advocate, the country's senior Law Officer.

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Duncan Menzies, Lord Menzies

Duncan Adam Young Menzies, Lord Menzies, (born 28 August 1953) is a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.

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Edinburgh Student Law Review

The Edinburgh Student Law Review (ESLR) is an academic journal published at the University of Edinburgh; it is edited, written and peer-reviewed entirely by students.

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Ernest Wedderburn

Sir Ernest Maclagan Wedderburn OBE FRSE WS (1884 – 3 June 1958) was a Scottish lawyer, and a significant figure both in the civic life of Edinburgh and in the legal establishment.

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Eveline MacLaren

Eveline MacLaren (November 1883-1955) became one of Scotland's two first female law graduates when she and Josephine Gordon Stuart both obtained an LLB degree from the Faculty of Law at Edinburgh Law School in 1909.

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Hector MacQueen

Hector L. MacQueen, FBA, FRSE, (born 1956) is a Scottish academic, a senior scholar of Scots law and legal history, and member of the Scottish Law Commission.

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Helen Darville

Helen Dale (born Helen Darville; 24 January 1972), known for a time by her pen name Helen Demidenko, is an Australian writer and lawyer.

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Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail

Iain Duncan Macphail, Lord Macphail (24 January 1938 – 21 October 2009) was a Scottish lawyer and Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.

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J. Kenyon Mason

John Kenyon Mason (19 December 1919 – 26 January 2017), CBE, MD, LLD, FRCPath, DMJ, FRCPE, FRSE, and known as Ken Mason, was an emeritus professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Edinburgh School of Law.

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James Drummond Young, Lord Drummond Young

James Edward Drummond Young, Lord Drummond Young QC (born 17 February 1950) is a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland and was formerly Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission.

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James McGhie, Lord McGhie

James Marshall McGhie, Lord McGhie is a Scottish lawyer who until 2014 was the Chairman of the Scottish Land Court and President of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland, and a Senator of the College of Justice.

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John Beckett, Lord Beckett

John Beckett, Lord Beckett is a Scottish lawyer who was appointed in 2016 as a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Court of Session.

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John Wheatley, Lord Wheatley

John Francis Wheatley, Lord Wheatley, (born 9 May 1941) is a Scottish lawyer and retired Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session.

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Josephine Gordon Stuart

Josephine Gordon Stuart (November 1883 – 1955) became one of Scotland's two first female law graduates when she and Eveline MacLaren both obtained an LLB degree from the Faculty of Law at Edinburgh Law School in 1909.

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Judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

The Judges of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom include the President, the Deputy President, and Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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Kenneth Reid (legal scholar)

Professor Kenneth G C Reid CBE, FBA, FRSE, WS, MA, LLB, LLD (born 1954) is a legal scholar and former law commissioner who holds the Chair of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh School of Law.

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Legal education in the United Kingdom

Legal education in the United Kingdom is divided between the common law system of England and Wales and Northern Ireland, and that of Scotland, which uses a hybrid of common law and civil law.

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List of first women lawyers and judges in Europe

This is a list of the first women lawyer(s) and judge(s) in Europe.

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List of In Our Time programmes

In Our Time is a discussion programme on the history of ideas; it has been hosted since 1998 by Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom.

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List of University of Glasgow people

The following list of University of Glasgow people provides a selection of the well-known people who have studied or taught at the University of Glasgow since its inception in 1451.

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Lord President Reid Professor of Law

The Lord President Reid Chair of Law is a named academic position at the Edinburgh Law School, established in 1972 with W. A. Wilson as the inaugural holder.

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Matthew Clarke, Lord Clarke

Matthew Gerard Clarke, Lord Clarke was a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session.

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Medical Law International

Medical Law International is a peer-reviewed law review that covers issues in medical law, bioethics, and health governance.

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Neil Brailsford, Lord Brailsford

(Sidney) Neil Brailsford, Lord Brailsford (born 16 August 1954) is a Scottish man and Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.

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Neil MacCormick

Sir Donald Neil MacCormick (27 May 1941 – 5 April 2009) was a Scottish legal philosopher and politician.

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Neil MacGregor

Robert Neil MacGregor, (born 16 June 1946) is a British art historian and museum director.

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Neil Walker (lawyer)

Neil Craig Walker, FRSE, (born 5 July 1960) is a Scottish lawyer and Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the School of Law of the University of Edinburgh.

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Nicol Stephen

Nicol Ross Stephen, Baron Stephen (born 23 March 1960) is a Scottish Liberal Democrat politician.

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Nigel Emslie, Lord Emslie

George Nigel Hannington Emslie, Lord Emslie (called Nigel; born 17 April 1947) is a retired judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.

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Old College, University of Edinburgh

Old College is a building of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Patrick Hodge, Lord Hodge

Patrick Stewart Hodge, Lord Hodge (born 19 May 1953), is a Scottish lawyer and Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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Paul Cullen, Lord Pentland

Paul Benedict Cullen, Lord Pentland (11 March 1957) is a former Solicitor General for Scotland, a Senator of the College of Justice (a judge of the country's Supreme Courts) and Chairman of the Scottish Law Commission.

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Philip Brodie, Lord Brodie

Philip Hope Brodie, Lord Brodie, is a Scottish lawyer and one of the Senators of the College of Justice, a Judge of Scotland's Supreme Courts.

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Raymond Doherty, Lord Doherty

(Joseph) Raymond Doherty, Lord Doherty (born 30 January 1958) is a Scottish lawyer and Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.

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Regius Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations

The Regius Chair of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations is a Regius Professorship at the University of Edinburgh.

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Robert Black (lawyer)

Professor Robert Black QC, FRSA, FRSE, FFCS, ILTM is Professor Emeritus of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh.

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Robert Reed, Lord Reed

Robert John Reed, Lord Reed (born 7 September 1956) is a Scottish judge and the current Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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Ronald Mackay, Lord Eassie

Ronald David Mackay, Lord Eassie (born 1945) is a Scottish lawyer and retired judge of the country's Supreme Courts, sitting in the Inner House of the Court of Session.

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Sandy Wylie, Lord Kinclaven

Alexander Featherstonhaugh Wylie, Lord Kinclaven, OBE (born 2 June 1951) is a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland.

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Scots law

Scots law is the legal system of Scotland.

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SCRIPTed

SCRIPTed is an online peer-reviewed open access academic journal of technology law, biomedical law, and intellectual property.

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Stair Society

The Stair Society is a learned society devoted to the study of Scots law.

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Stephen Woolman, Lord Woolman

Stephen Errol Woolman, Lord Woolman (born 16 May 1953), is a Scottish legal academic, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.

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Thomas Dawson, Lord Dawson

Thomas Cordner Dawson, Lord Dawson (14 November 1948 – 1 June 2007) was a Scottish lawyer.

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Tods Murray

Tods Murray LLP WS was a mid-tier Scottish commercial legal firm with offices in Edinburgh and Glasgow and 2011 turnover of £13.1m, placing it at number 144 in The Lawyer magazine's list of the two hundred largest UK firms.

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Unity Dow

Unity Dow (born 23 April 1959) is a judge, human rights activist, and writer from Botswana.

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University of Aberdeen School of Law

The School of Law at the University of Aberdeen dates back to the University's foundation in 1495.

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University of Edinburgh

The University of Edinburgh (abbreviated as Edin. in post-nominals), founded in 1582, is the sixth oldest university in the English-speaking world and one of Scotland's ancient universities.

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University of Glasgow School of Law

The School of Law at the University of Glasgow provides undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Law, and awards the degrees of Bachelor of Laws (Legum Baccalaureus, LL.B.), Master of Laws (Iuris Vtriusque Magistrum, LL.M.), LLM by Research, Master of Research (M.Res.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Philosophiæ Doctor, Ph.D.), the degree of Doctor of Laws being awarded generally only as an honorary degree.

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Valerie Stacey, Lady Stacey

Valerie Elizabeth Stacey, Lady Stacey is a Scottish lawyer, and a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts.

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William Gloag

William Murray Gloag (15 March 1865 – 5 February 1934) was a Scottish lawyer and academic.

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William Nimmo Smith, Lord Nimmo Smith

William Austin Nimmo Smith (6 November 1942) is a former Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Supreme Courts of Scotland, sitting in the High Court of Justiciary and the Inner House of the Court of Session.

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1707 in Scotland

Events from the year 1707 in the Kingdom of Scotland, then Scotland.

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Edinburgh Univesity School of Law, School of Law in Edinburgh, The University of Edinburgh, School of Law, University of Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh School of Law.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Law_School

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