Inaugural Lecture of Professor Gillian Black

About the Speaker

Professor Gillian Black was appointed as a Commissioner of the Scottish Law Commission in April 2020.

She is Professor of Scots Private Law at the University of Edinburgh, with teaching and research interests principally in family law, contract law, and privacy. She also has a research interest in heraldry, and has published widely across these fields.

Before joining Edinburgh Law School as a Lecturer in 2005, Gillian qualified as a solicitor in 2002 with Shepherd & Wedderburn in Edinburgh, working in their Commercial Contracts division, and then spent 18 months as a teaching assistant in the School of Law at the University of Glasgow. She completed her PhD on publicity rights in Scots law in 2009. She is a graduate of the Universities of Glasgow (LLB, DPLP) and Edinburgh (PhD).

This lecture will be followed by a reception in the Playfair Library.

This event is free and open to all but registration is required

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Playfair Libarary, Old College, The University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, Edinburgh, United Kingdom