University of Glasgow

Graduate Student, School of Law

LL.M by Research Student

College of Social Sciences

Thesis Title: Examining (International) Law: Towards a Systematic, Coherent and Radical Theory.

About

I graduated from the University of Glasgow with an LL.B (Hons) 1st class in 2008, winning the David Theodore Lowe Prize in Honours Jurisprudence.  My dissertation was subsequently published in the journal Critique.  After obtaining my Diploma in Legal Practice from the Glasgow Graduate School of Law in 2009, I rejoined the University of Glasgow for my LL.M by Research.

I worked for two years as a trainee solicitor with one of Scotland's top-ranked commercial law firms (gaining experience in Banking Law, Property Law and Insolvency Law) where my love of all things theoretical and jurisprudential was met with a bemused smile.

As part of my traineeship, I had the opportunity to work for 6 months in the Office of the Solicitor to the Advocate General (OSAG) gaining practical experience in, amongst other things, Asylum and Immigration Court of Session litigation, Social Security Tribunal litigation, Human Rights Law and Public/Administrative/Constitutional Law.  Following this, I undertook another secondment to one of the firm's clients, Clydesdale Bank, working directly with their Secured Recoveries team.

I briefly worked for the Govan Law Centre as a solicitor and notary public before moving to the Ethnic Minorities Law Centre (working in Employment Law), heading up their Aberdeenshire Project, and I have worked for Glasgow University as a tutor in the undergraduate jurisprudence course.