The course introduces undergraduate students to the constitutional and institutional structure of the European Community and the European Union, as well as substantive EC law (that is, primarily, the law of the internal market). I acted as tutor on this course from 2007 until 2010. I also gave one lecture entitled “Services, establishment and social dumping in the enlarged European Union” in 2008 as part of the examinable course material for the course.
These courses, aimed at second year undergraduate students, covers all important aspects of commercial and company law as well as agency, partnership, intellectual property, competition law, carriage and sale of goods, insurance, diligence and insolvency. I acted as tutor on these courses from 2007 until 2010.
The course seeks to develop knowledge and understanding of the key rules/concepts in the Scots Law of Delict. Particular attention is given to the law of negligence and leading areas of statutory liability. I acted as tutor for first year undergraduate students from 2007 until 2008.
This course, which I tutored from 2009 until 2010 is intended for second year undergraduate students of accounting, economics and business, and it deals with the main areas of law relevant to these disciplines. The aim is to give students an understanding of the general principles of these branches of law and, so far as practicable, to set the law in its modern commercial context. It is an introductory course with emphasis on general principles.
This is an Honours level course which is designed for third or fourth year LL.B. students. It aims to provide an in-depth study of selected aspects of Labour Law in the UK and to promote advanced knowledge and understanding of the theory, concepts and rules of UK Labour Law in their socio-economic, institutional and historical frameworks. As part of the teaching staff on this course, I developed and taught two seminars on Collective Labour Law in the UK from 2008 until now.
The course is designed to introduce LL.M students to EC Social Policy, EC Labour Law and the overall importance of European Social Policy to the European Programme. It includes an overview of a range of topics which comprise the subject of EC labour law, including EC equal treatment law, EC equal pay law, family-friendly policies, the protection of part-time and fixed-term employees, the regulation of working time, the safeguards for employees on the restructuring of an undertaking and collective labour law (such as the protection of the right to strike - and the limits on such a principle). I have been leading the seminars on collective labour law from 2008 until now.
I have experience in teaching undergradute and postgraduate Law and non-Law students through tutorials, seminars and lectures. I have also acted as internal marker for an Employment Law Module at Heriot Watt University. I assisted in determining the structure, and writing the course materials, for the European Labour Law LL.M course and have created a course outline for an Energy Law LL.M programme in development at the University of Edinburgh’s Law School. In March 2011 I took part in a Teaching Exchange organised by the European University Institute with the London School of Economics.