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Book Review: 'A History of Scottish Child Protection Law'

Journal Article
Barnes Macfarlane, L. (2021)
Book Review: 'A History of Scottish Child Protection Law'. Juridical Review, 2021(1), 59-61
Review of 'A History of Scottish Child Protection Law', by K McK Norrie (published 23-7-2020).

Queer Politics of post-Enlightenment: Beyond the Horizon of the Present

Journal Article
Kulpa, R. (2021)
Queer Politics of post-Enlightenment: Beyond the Horizon of the Present. Hungarian Studies Review, 48(2), 199-208. https://doi.org/10.5325/hungarianstud.48.2.0199
This essay reflects on queer politics in Central and Eastern European (CEE) through the examples of Poland and Hungary using the Derridean concept of “supplement” to expose th...

The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience and New Care Optics

Journal Article
Kulpa, R., & Ludwin, K. (2021)
The Potential of Friendship: A Case for Social Resilience and New Care Optics. interalia: a journal of queer studies, 16, 82-94. https://doi.org/10.51897/interalia/rgrq6813
In this article, we call for greater recognition of friendship as a basic social relation that should play a pivotal role in re-imagining social resilience if it is to be futu...

The Scottish Witch Hunts: the Religious and Legal Contexts

Presentation / Conference
Dodd, L. (2021, October)
The Scottish Witch Hunts: the Religious and Legal Contexts. Paper presented at Witches' Stories: Folk healers and midwives accused and persecuted for helping others (1563-1736), Edinburgh [Online]
An examination of the religious and legal contexts for the witch hunts of 16th and 17th century Scotland.

The Scots Law of Intestacy: Whence? Where? Whither?

Presentation / Conference
Dodd, L. (2021, September)
The Scots Law of Intestacy: Whence? Where? Whither?. Paper presented at Edinburgh Napier Research Seminar Series, Edinburgh
An overview of the origins of current Scots intestacy law, the major problems posed by the current intestacy regime, and proposals for the possible reform.

Harmonising insolvency law in the EU: New thoughts on old ideas in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal Article
Ghio, E., Boon, G., Ehmke, D., Gant, J., Langkjaer, L., & Vaccari, E. (2021)
Harmonising insolvency law in the EU: New thoughts on old ideas in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. International Insolvency Review, 30(3), 427-459. https://doi.org/10.1002/iir.1432
While the harmonisation of insolvency law in the European Union (EU) has been a top priority on the European institutions’ agenda in the last decade, it is well known that thi...

Harmonisation in Times of Crisis

Journal Article
Ghio, E. (2021)
Harmonisation in Times of Crisis. Juris Poiesis, 24(35), 386-392

New Challenges For Transnational Civil And Commercial Law In The Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking the Role of Law and Legal Institutions

Journal Article
Ghio, E., & Perlingeiro, R. (2021)
New Challenges For Transnational Civil And Commercial Law In The Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rethinking the Role of Law and Legal Institutions. Juris Poiesis, 24(35), 383-385
This issue of the Juris Poesis Journal features extended abstracts of papers which have been presented at the roundtable entitled ‘New Challenges for Transnational Civil and C...

Diritto militare romano ai confini dell'impero: alcuni esempi dalle tavolette di Vindolanda

Journal Article
Di Donato, G. (2021)
Diritto militare romano ai confini dell'impero: alcuni esempi dalle tavolette di Vindolanda. JusOnline, 2021(3), 24-57. https://doi.org/10.26350/18277942_000032
Taking into account both the palaeographical, archaeological, and philological data, the author aims to bring the contribution of Roman law in the interpretation of four Vindo...

Legal Practice in Modern History

Presentation / Conference
Dodd, L. (2021, May)
Legal Practice in Modern History. Paper presented at Legal History in Modern Practice, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
The Romans envisioned history as a moral didactic, the purpose of which was to present stories about deeds accomplished by historical figures and to challenge readers to emula...
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Mini-internships for the Centre for Family Law and Policy

2023 - 2024
Application to the Clark Foundation for Legal Education for funding for mini-internships in the area of child and family law and policy, for undergraduate students primarily in years 3 and 4 of their ...
Funder: The Clark Foundation for Legal Education | Value: £2,000

Domestic Abuse and Defending a Child Contact Action - Legal Aid and the Economic Impact of Child contact cases

2023 - 2024
A pilot project on the barriers to legal aid for victims of domestic abuse in contact cases
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £3,290

RESIST - Fostering Queer-Feminist Intersectional Resistances against Transnational Anti-Gender Politics

2022 - 2026
Anti-gender politics pose a grave threat to modern democratic formations because they challenge people's everyday survival, bodily integrity, and self-determination. Anti-gender spans the political sp...
Funder: European Commission | Value: £443,089

Cross Border Consumer Enforcement: Looking to the Future

2022 - 2022
Report writing project with University of Reading for UNCTAD.
Funder: University of Reading | Value: £500

Co-produced career guidance intervention for people living with dementia

2021 - 2023
Project, led by Dr Louise Ritchie of the University of the West of Scotland and Co-investigators (Prof Debbie Tolson and Emma Bolger of University of the Westof Scotland, Dr Valerie Egdell and Katie B...
Funder: Alzheimer Society

Centre for Child & Family Law and Policy Research Internships

2021 - 2022
The internships will involve: (i) conducting practice-based research on areas of law and practice governing children and adults in their private and family life – to include family law, public childca...
Funder: The Clark Foundation for Legal Education | Value: £3,399

Research Network to create Multi-Disciplinary Research Centre for Scottish Child and Family Law and Policy

2021 - 2023
Our Research Network will launch the unique Multi-Disciplinary Centre for Scottish Child and Family Law and Policy, building upon the successes and networking opportunities generated by our workshop s...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £19,500

Child Welfare Hearing Reports: Post 2015 reforms

2020 - 2021
The research proposes to examine how, if at all, practice in the commissioning, preparation and use of CWHR has changed since 2015. In particular, to what extend are CWHR used, if at all, to provide e...
Funder: Royal Society of Edinburgh | Value: £5,997

Exploring experiences of miscarriages of justice

2019 - 2023
The proposed research will explore victims’ experiences of miscarriages of justice. It will investigate the narratives that individuals who have been wrongfully imprisoned have to share about their li...
Funder: British Academy | Value: £7,952

Scottish Parliament Research Project: Family Law (Scotland) Bill 2019

2019 - 2019
The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body is seeking to award a contract for research on behalf of the Justice Committee. The Family Law (Scotland) Bill (‘the Bill’) is due to be introduced this yea...
Funder: The Scottish Parliament | Value: £4,872
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The RESIST Project Press Release: Findings from the Work Package 1 Released

9 April 2024
Headline: Europe-wide research reveals how transgender rights, feminism, and LGBTIQ+ advocacy are systematically attacked in politics and media. Lead: A project researching so-called ‘anti-gender’ po...

Dr Cristian Surubaru in Romania as an expert for a second European Commission consultancy project

2 October 2023
Last week, Dr Neculai-Cristian Surubaru (The Business School at Edinburgh Napier) was is in Romania, conducting fieldwork as part of a second consultancy project on behalf of the European Commission. ...

Domestic abuse information ‘not adequately captured’ in child contact cases

6 February 2023
tudy: Scottish Legal News 6 Feb

Abuse 'should be noted' at hearings

3 February 2023
The Herald CHILD contact hearings in civil courts are not taking adequate account of domestic abuse convictions, according to researchers.

Lawyers fail to take account of domestic abuse

3 February 2023
The Scotsman - p7 News. Child contact hearings in civil courts are not taking adequate account of domestic abuse convictions, according to researchers.

Child contact hearings failing to take account of domestic abuse, study finds

2 February 2023
The Courier - 02/02/2023 Child contact hearings in civil courts are not taking adequate account of domestic abuse convictions, according to researchers. (Note: this story originated from Press Assoc...

Family: Case management rules made for 2023

14 November 2022
Implementation of recommendations of 2017 report prepared for the Scottish Civil Justice Committee.

Digital Assets in Scots Private Law Project

1 January 2004
Edinburgh Napier Law academic collaborates in a project funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) which will consider the implications of digital assets for the current legal framework in Scotlan...

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