Glasgow University

Glasgow University has prevailed against the University of Dundee in the final of the Sir Alexander Stone Moot.  Dating back to 1986, the competition involves 10 Scottish universities competing over several rounds, culminating in the final which is held in the Sir Alexander Stone Moot Court at

Advocate General for Scotland Catherine Smith KC is to be awarded an honorary degree by the University of Glasgow. The university is making the awards in recognition of recipients' outstanding contributions in the fields of arts, politics, science and humanities.

Legal academics were among the recipients of Royal Society of Edinburgh medals awarded at a ceremony held this week.

The University of Glasgow’s Annual James Wood Lecture will take place on Thursday 30 October. Supreme Court justice Lady Rose will speak on the topic of 'Constitutional Rights with a Privy Council Twist'.

Tasglann nan Eilean, the archive service of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, has embarked on a collaborative project with the University of Glasgow which will result in an important local archive collection being catalogued, preserved and made publicly accessible. The project, on the history of disarmamen

Austen commemoration on the wall of Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey, London Credit: JRennocks, CC BY-SA 4.0

Cameron Wong McDermott (lecturer in social change, University of Glasgow) and Nicole Marshall (GO Justice Centre manager) write about the university's collaboration with The Marie Trust.  At the Glasgow Open Justice Centre (GO Justice), part of the University of Glasgow’s School of Law, w

A team of law students at the Glasgow Open Justice Centre (GO Justice) have produced a research report in partnership with the Legal Services Agency (LSA).

University of Glasgow in-house legal team trainee solicitor Holli McGuff has been named Rising Star of the Year at the Association of University Legal Practitioners Awards. The award invites those within the legal profession and working within the university environment to nominate a junior member o

The Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security is to host a lecture by Sally Langrish later this month. Ms Langrish was appointed foreign, commonwealth & development office legal adviser (director general, legal) in May 2022.

The University of Glasgow hosted the Brown-Mosten International Client Consultation Competition (BMICCC) earlier this month.

The University of Glasgow’s GO Justice Centre is a key partner in a new research centre led by the University of Liverpool. The Centre for People’s Justice (CPJ) is a coalition of 45 organisations from community, business, philanthropic, cultural, artistic, charitable, legal, government

Students in the Emma Ritch Law Clinic at the University of Glasgow School of Law have been working on a Supreme Court case which raises awareness of complainers’ rights and fair trial rights in sexual violence cases. The clinic was instructed by Rape Crisis Scotland who appeared as a third par

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC will deliver this year's James Wood lecture on the topic of the prosecution of sexual offences. The James Wood Lecture is the principal public lecture hosted annually by the University of Glasgow School of Law, having first been delivered by Lord Fraser of Tullybelton i

Three diploma students from the University of Glasgow – Flora Henry, Shaun Sweeney and Aidan Wallace – took part in the International Mediation Competition run by the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) in São Paulo, Brazil from 11 to 13 April. S