Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research
Directors
Professor Caroline Humfress (ILCR Director)
School of History
Professor John Hudson (ILCR Deputy Director & Postgraduate Convenor)
School of History
Steering Committee
Dr Elizabeth Ashford
School of Philosophy, Social Anthropology, Film and Music
Dr Adam Bower
School of International Relations
Dr Alex Davis
School of English
Dr Melissa Demian
School of Philosophy, Social Anthropology, Film and Music
Sheriff Lorna Drummond QC
Sheriff, Scottish Courts Service, Justice of the St Helena Court of Appeal
Dr Will Eves (Research Fellow)
Department of Mediaeval History
Professor Colin Kidd
School of History
Professor Anthony F Lang, Jr (CGC Director)
School of International Relations
Dr Myles Lavan
School of Classics
Stuart Pemble
Mills and Reeve
Dr Mateja Peter
School of International Relations
Dr Jacqueline Rose
School of History
Paul Seils
European Institute of Peace
Research Staff & Postdoctoral Researchers
Professor Ali Ansari
School of History
Dr Bernhard Blumenau
School of International Relations
Dr Adam Bower
School of International Relations
Mr Bennett Collins (CGC Research Fellow)
School of International Relations
Dr Rory Cox
School of History
Dr Ana del Campo
School of History
Dr Andrew Cecchinato (Research Fellow)
School of History
Professor Mark Elliot
School of Divinity
Dr Adam Etinson
School of Philosophy, Social Anthropology, Film and Music
Dr Iain Ferguson (CGC Associate Fellow)
School of International Relations
Dr Tim Greenwood
School of History
Dr Sarah Greer
School of History
Professor Knud Haakonssen
School of History
Professor James Harris
Head of Department, School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies, and Professor of the History of Philosophy
Dr Jon Hesk
School of Classics
Dr Felicity Hill
School of History
Professor Robert Houston
School of History
Dr Konrad Lawson
School of History
Dr David Miles
School of International Relations
Dr Malcolm Petrie
School of History
Dr Jacqueline Rose
School of History
Dr Ben Sachs
School of Philosophy, Social Anthropology, Film and Music
Dr Jenna Sapiano
School of International Relations
Dr Gabriella Slomp
School of International Relations
Professor Christopher Smith
School of Classics
Dr Attilio Stella (Research Fellow)
School of History
Dr Taylor St John
School of International Relations
Dr Sarah White (Research Fellow)
School of History
Dr Alex Woolf
School of History
Dr Akhila Yechury
School of History
Associate Visiting Fellows
Professor Thomas P. Gallanis (University of Iowa)
Associate Dean for Research, N. William Hines Chair in Law, and Professor of History
Professor Janet McLean
Professor of Law, University of Auckland
Professor William I. Miller (University of Michigan)
Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Hugh Dillon
Former Deputy State Coroner, New South Wales; Committee Member, National Judicial College of Australia; Visiting Professorial Fellow, Law, UNSW, Sydney
Honorary Professors
Professor Janet McLean
Professor of Law, University of Auckland
Prof. John Robertson (University of Cambridge, Emeritus)
History of Political Thought / Intellectual History
Professor William I. Miller (University of Michigan)
Thomas G. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan
Bill Taylor, QC
Honorary Research Fellows
Hugh Dillon
Former Deputy State Coroner, New South Wales; Committee Member, National Judicial College of Australia; Visiting Professorial Fellow, Law, UNSW, Sydney
Dr Kimberley-Joy Knight (University of Queensland)
Corresponding Members
Jonathan Ainslie (University of Edinburgh)
PhD student
Dr Merridee Bailey (University of Adelaide)
Centre for the History of Emotions, Adelaide; Associate Member, Faculty of History, Oxford University
Samuel Barley
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2017/8)
Professor John W. Cairns (University of Edinburgh)
Professor of Civil Law, University of Edinburgh School of Law
Dr Kimberley Czajkowski (University of Edinburgh)
Lecturer, University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics & Archaeology
Joseph Daly (University of St Andrews)
Dominic Dark
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2017/8), Clyde &Co LLP
Jakub Gutkowski
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)
Gavin Hadfield
Partner, HFW
Adela Halo (Queen Mary University of London)
PhD Student
Edward Heaton
General Counsel, LGT Vestra
Dr Rachel E. Holmes
Department of English, University College London
Vittorio Jacinto (Roma Tre)
Erasmus+ Exchange Student (2019)
Dr Chloë Kennedy (University of Edinburgh)
Lecturer in criminal law
Teoman Kucuk
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)
Jane Lambert
Barrister
Michael Lobban (London School of Economics)
Professor of Legal History
Maks Del Mar (Queen Mary University of London)
Reader in Legal Theory
Alicia Mavor (University of Cambridge)
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2016/7), PhD
Dr Sara Menzinger (Roma Tre)
Substitute Professor of Legal History in the Department of Jurisprudence at Roma Tre
Alex Miller-Pelletier
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)
Emily Miller
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)
Gerald Montagu
Counsel, Gide Loyrette Nouel
Florian Müller (Zeppelin University)
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2016/7), PhD
Simon Murray
Barrister
Richard Nicholl (BPP London)
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2016/7), Inner Temple
Sarah Palmer-Scoon
Philip Paschalides
Partner, Walkers
Sandy Philip, Lord Philip
Former Senator of the College of Justice
Stuart Pemble
Partner, Mills and Reeve Solicitors
Dr Paul J. du Plessis (University of Edinburgh)
Senior Lecturer in Civil Law and Legal History, University of Edinburgh School of Law
Harry Potter
Barrister, 25 Bedford Row, and broadcaster
Friederike Ritzmann (University of Warwick)
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2016/7)
Kenneth Rogers
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2017/8), Kanda Consulting
Dr Guido Rossi (University of Edinburgh)
Lecturer in European Legal History, Edinburgh Law School
Meridith Roy
Lawyer, New York
Yazmin Sisay
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)
Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University)
Professor of History; Donald Bullough Fellow 2019-2020, University of St Andrews
Francisca Soromenho Ascenso (University of Michigan Law School)
George Sprague
Principal Associate, Mills & Reeve
David Brynmor Thomas, QC (Queen Mary University of London)
Barrister, 39 Essex Chambers, and Honorary Professor in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
Rondene Vassell
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)
Alasdair Wilde
MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)
Xiaojing Zhu (Shandong University of Arts, China)
Visiting Scholar, University of St Andrews (2017/8)
Current and Recent Research Students
Nathan Alexander “Atheists and Racial Thought in Britain and the United States, c. 1850-1914” [Prof. Colin Kidd]
Dan Armstrong “England and the Papacy in the late eleventh and twelfth centuries” [Prof. John Hudson]
Morag Campbell “Madness and childbirth in nineteenth century Scotland” [Prof. Rab Houston]
David de Concilio “Aspects of ius commune in northern Italy” [Prof. John Hudson]
Jamie Cumby “The Law Book Publishing Industry in Lyon: 1502-1562” [Prof. Andrew Pettegree]
Richard Daglish “Decolonising White Africa: Examining the Experiences of Algerians and Kenyans” [Dr Stephen Tyre]
Abe Davies “Early modern English poetics and dramaturgy of soul, spirit and ghost” [Dr Alex Davis]
Adam Grimshaw “Anglo-Swedish Commercial Contact and Commodity Exchange in the Seventeenth Century” [Prof. Steve Murdoch]
Helga Hafliðadóttir [Prof. Tony Lang]
Louise Heren “Male Violence in Scotland in the interwar period” [Dr. James Nott & Dr. William Knox]
Joshua Hey “Political Oaths in England” [Prof. John Hudson]
Cory Hitt “Law and honour in medieval Iceland and France” [Prof. John Hudson]
Ingrid Ivarsen “The Writing of Anglo-Saxon Law” [Prof. John Hudson and Prof. Caroline Humfress]
Saskia Limbach “Government Use of Print in the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th Century” [Prof. Andrew Pettegree]
James McMordie “Neoclassical Realism and European Responses to the Ukrainian Crisis” [Dr. Ryan Beasley]
Lina Malagon “Transitional justice, constitutional law and human rights” [Dr. Javier Argomaniz. Second supervisor. Dr. Tim Wilson]
Andreas Papamichail [Prof. Tony Lang and Prof. Patrick Hayden]
Jonathan Paquette “Scottish Unionist and Tory Ideas in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth centuries” [Prof. Colin Kidd]
Scott Reid “Constitutional Ideas in Scottish Political Thought, c. 1880-1914” [Prof. Colin Kidd, St Andrews and Prof. Ewen Cameron, Edinburgh]
Christof Royer “R2P, the International Criminal Court, and the Struggle against Evil in International Relations” [Prof. Tony Lang]
Christiana Spens “Playing the Villain: Understanding the Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists” [Prof. Alex Danchev and Dr. Gilbert Ramsay]
Zoe Sutherland “The interconnections between legal philosophy and imaginative literature in early modern English drama, and how this relates to questions of freedom and equality in present-day International Human Rights Law” [Prof. Lorna Hutson]
A list of members of CGC can be found here: