Institute of Legal and Constitutional Research

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Steering Committee

Dr Elizabeth Ashford  School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies

Dr Adam Bower (CGLG co-Director) School of International Relations

Dr Alex Davis School of English

Dr Melissa Demian School of Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies

Lady Drummond Senator of the College of Justice

Dr Will Eves Assistant Professor in Law, University of Nottingham

Jim Gallagher Chair of the Think Tank Our Scottish Future

Dr Karen Katiyo School of International Relations                                                                       

Professor Colin Kidd School of History

Dr Myles Lavan School of Classics

Dr David Miles School of International Relations

Dr Victoria Miyandazi University of Nottingham

Stuart Pemble Mills and Reeve

Dr Mateja Peter (CGLG co-Director)  School of International Relations

Dr Malcolm Petrie  School of History

Dr Jacqueline Rose School of History

Paul Seils European Institute of Peace                                                                                                               

Dr Poppy Kershaw School of History 

 

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Honorary Professors

Lady Drummond Senator of the College of Justice

Jim Gallagher Chair of the Think Tank Our Scottish Future

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 Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Michigan

Aidan O’Neill KC (Scotland and in England & Wales) Matrix Chambers

Professor Malik Dahlan Principal Institution Quraysh for Law & Policy

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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

Hannah Friedman Henry Bates Overseas Fellow, Michigan Law

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St Andrews Research Staff & Postdoctoral Researchers

Professor Ali Ansari School of History

Dr Milinda Banerjee School of History

Dr Bernhard Blumenau School of International Relations

Dr Adam Bower School of International Relations

Dr Rory Cox School of History

Dr Ana del Campo School of History

Professor Oliver Crisp School of Divinity

Dr João Rafael Cunha School of Economics and Finance

Shuvatri Dasgupta (University of Cambridge/St Andrews)

Dr Adam Etinson School of Philosophy, Social Anthropology, Film and Music

Professor Tim Greenwood 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 Tristan Henderson School of Computer Science

Dr Jon Hesk School of Classics

Dr Felicity Hill School of History

Dr Konrad Lawson School of History

Dr Jacqueline Rose School of History

Dr Ben Sachs School of Philosophy, Social Anthropology, Film and Music

Dr Gabriella Slomp School of International Relations

Professor Christopher Smith School of Classics

Dr Taylor St John School of International Relations

Professor Alex Woolf School of History

Dr Akhila Yechury School of History

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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
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
Dominic Dark MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2017/8), Clyde &Co LLP
Dr Lisa Eberle  Assistant Professor in Ancient History, University of Tübingen
Dr Lorren Eldridge  Assistant Professor in Private Law, University of Cambridge
Professor Mark Elliot Professor of Divinity and Biblical Criticism, University of Glasgow
Dr Will Eves Assistant Professor in Law, University of Nottingham
Esther Goldschlagner, Legal Professional
Dr Sarah Greer Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, St John’s College, Oxford
Gavin Hadfield Partner, HFW
Adela Halo (Queen Mary University of London) PhD Student
Edward Heaton General Counsel, LGT Vestra
Dr Louise Heren (Oxford Brookes) Visiting Researcher in Crime History
Dr Rachel E. Holmes (Wolfson College, University of Cambridge) College Assistant Professor, Director of Studies, and Fellow in English
Dr Ingrid Ivarsen Postdoctoral Researcher at Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Vittorio Jacinto (Roma Tre) Erasmus+ Exchange Student (2019)
Dr Chloë Kennedy (University of Edinburgh) Senior Lecturer in criminal law
Dr Harshan Kumarasingham (University of Edinburgh) Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Science
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
Dr Matthew McHaffie Civil Servant, Cabinet Office
Dr Sara Menzinger (Roma Tre) Substitute Professor of Legal History in the Department of Jurisprudence at Roma Tre
Gerald Montagu Counsel, Gide Loyrette Nouel
Simon Murray Barrister
Dr Joan Lockwood O’Donovan (University of Edinburgh and University of St Andrews) Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh in the School of Divinity, Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of St. Andrews in the School of Divinity
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
Professor 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
Jonathan Powell PhD Student, King’s College, London
Dr Guido Rossi (University of Edinburgh) Lecturer in European Legal History, Edinburgh Law School
Meridith Roy Lawyer, New York
Dr Jenna Sapiano Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Monash Gender, Peace and Security Centre
Daniel Lord Smail (Harvard University) Professor of History; Donald Bullough Fellow 2019-2020, University of St Andrews
Francisca Soromenho Ascenso LLM, of Counsel at AAMTLegal | TA and Guest Lecturer at Lisbon Law School
George Sprague Principal Associate, Mills & Reeve
Dr Attilio Stella School of History, University of Verona
Jenny Stewart FRSA, Non-Executive Director and former KPMG Partner, member of University Court
Prof. Dr. Jörg Philipp Terhechte Chair for Public Law, European and International Law, Regulation and Competition Law at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany and Professor for European and International Economic Law at the University of Glasgow
David Brynmor Thomas, KC (Queen Mary University of London) Barrister, 39 Essex Chambers, and Honorary Professor in the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London
Dr Sarah White Lecturer in History, University of Nottingham
Mark Wonnacott KC
Xiaojing Zhu (Shandong University of Arts, China) Visiting Scholar, University of St Andrews (2017/8)
Matthew Bruce Trainee Solicitor, the Society of Writers to His Majesty’s Signet and Visiting Lecturer in Law, Abertay University

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Examples of PhD Research

David de Concilio Via Brocardica. The Development of Brocards and the Western European Legal Tradition (c. 1160 – c. 1215)

Jamie Cumby “The Law Book Publishing Industry in Lyon: 1502-1562” [Prof. Andrew Pettegree]

Cinnamon Ducasse Ecclesiastical property in the Novels of Justinian [Prof Caroline Humfress and Prof John Hudson ]

Cory Hitt “Establishing justice and telling stories”: paradigms of norm transmission in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman and Old French literary and legal texts [Prof. John Hudson]

Karen Katiyo Constitutional courts: reconciling the law, politics, and ‘spirit’ after transition [Prof. Tony Lang and Dr. Mateja Peter]

Saskia Limbach “Government Use of Print in the Holy Roman Empire in the 16th Century” (provisional title) [Prof. Andrew Pettegree]

Alexander Lombardo, Crime and Royal Punishment in Carolingian Francia and Late Anglo-Saxon England, c. 775–1025  [Professor John Hudson and Professor Simon McLean]

Stuart Neave Federal alternatives to the unitary British state, 1850-1950 [Colin Kidd and Professor Richard Whatmore]

Freja Stamper “To Fight with Pen and Ink Against the Illicit Plots of the Devil”: Salvation and the Written Word in Cassiodorus’ Psalm Commentary, Institutions, Complexiones and De Orthographia  [Professor Caroline Humfress and Professor Tim Greenwood]

Poppy Kershaw F.W. Maitland’s Legal Ecosystem: The Jurisprudence of F.W. Maitland and Interactions with the Social Sciences in Late Nineteenth-Century England [Professor John Hudson and Professor Colin Kidd]

Corresponding MLitt Alumni 

Alicia Mavor MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2016/7)

Florian Müller MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2016/7)

Friederike Ritzmann MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2016/7)

Cinnamon Ducasse MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2016/7)

 

Kenneth Rogers MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2017/8)

Samuel Barley MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2017/8)                                                           

Richard Nicholl MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2017/8)

 

Alex Miller-Pelletier MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)

Alasdair Wilde MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)

Emily Miller MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)

Hattie Watson MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)

Jakub Gutkowski MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)

Rondene Vassell MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)

Teoman Kucuk MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)

Yazmin Sisay MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2018/9)

 

Christine Cheng MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2019/20)

David Ponwitz MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2019/20)

Edwin Ploye MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2019/20)

John Priddy MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2019/20)

Paolo Celeridad MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2019/20)

 

Alix De La Motte De Broons De Vauvert MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2020/21)

Elikem Logan MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2020/21)

Nathan Beck-Samuels MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2020/21)

Olimpia Gribincea MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2020/21)

Olivia Bousquette MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2020/21)

Kathrin Nickel MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2020/21)

 

Anna Brainin MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2021/22)

Erin Casey MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2021/22)

Poppy Kershaw MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2021/22) 

 

Alexander Geisler MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2023/4)

Claude De Surville MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2023/4)

Cooper Smith MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2023/4)

Nathan Kett MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2023/4)

Neyve Egger MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2023/4)

Ridley Thomas MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2023/4)

Sarah Garde MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2023/4)

 

Eduardo Abduch Catelani MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2024/5)

Joshua Kwon MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2024/5)

Eliza Foreman MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2024/5)

Damian Radu MLitt Legal and Constitutional Studies (2024/5)