On Earth Day 2024, we bring you the final installment in our LLB essay series, based on a selection of writing from our ‘Law and Sustainability’ honours course. This year’s Earth Day focusses on earthday.org’s commitment to end plastics, demanding a 60% reduction in the production of all plastics by 2040. Find out more at: https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2024/ By Nadezhda Raduncheva We must accept the consequences of our permanent impact on the planet and begin to address the losses and damages being caused by climate change. This blog explores the UN regime on loss and damage and its futur ..read more

This is the second last article in our series of LLB student essays from our ‘Law and Sustainability’ honours course, in the run-up to World Earth Day on 22 April. To find out more about the Law and Sustainbility course, visit our UofG Course Catalogue.  By Robbie Law Corporate climate litigation has increased exponentially in recent years, providing a wake-up call to the world’s most polluting corporations. Cases ruling against the ‘Carbon Majors’ have been found to reduce share price by 1.5% and cost an average of $360 million, making litigation an effective method of forcing climate is ..read more

We continue our series of LLB student essays from our ‘Law and Sustainability’ honours course, with an article by Lyle Hamilton on Scotland’s first ‘No Take Zone’. To find out more about the Law and Sustainbility course, visit our UofG Course Catalogue.  By Lyle Hamilton It has now been 15 years since the legal recognition of Scotland’s first No Take Zone (NTZ); a 2.67 square kilometre section of Lamlash Bay, off the coast of the Isle of Arran. The successes of the project are well recognised however, Lamlash Bay is still the only NTZ (a form of Highly Protected Marine Area (HPMA)) in Sco ..read more

This article is the fourth in the series of our LLB student essays, bringing together a selection of writings from our ‘Law and Sustainability in the Anthropocene’ course.    To find out more about this Honours course, visit our UofG Course Catalogue.  By Ayla Bariskan Overview  Scope 3 emissions, also known as ‘downstream’ or ‘end-use’ emissions, refer to the greenhouse gasses produced indirectly through the activities of an organisation (Carbon Trust, no date). For example, as consumers, when we use oil to power our cars or to heat our homes, we are producing emissions th ..read more

By Beste Yasav On Wednesday 21 February, we had the Wide-Ranging Legal Careers Event; GULS organised this event in conjunction with the School of Law Employability Team. In the event, we had the privilege to meet and chat with many successful people who work in different areas of law. This was an incredible opportunity for us to see the wide range of legal professions available to us and how to shape our career paths according to the part of the legal profession we want to go into. There were many important names in the event such as Bruce Adamson, Lyndsay Monaghan, Geena Reilly, Andy Sirel, R ..read more

This is the second edition of our LLB student essay series, which collates a selection of writings from our ‘Law and Sustainability in the Anthropocene’ course.  By Eoghan Guthrie The UK Government recently announced that they would be joining the Ocean Conservation Pledge, meaning that they have committed to protecting at least 30% of their ocean waters by 2030. This is done in the UK through the process of creating marine protected areas (MPAs), of which there are currently 76 offshore MPAs, spanning an area of 261,543km2. These MPAs have been established, according to the UK Government ..read more

Law and Sustainability student blog series The following article is the first in a series based on a selection of LLB student essays from the Law and Sustainability course. The course examines the linkage between sustainable finance and established legal concepts such as fiduciary duty as well as investigating new regulatory techniques that have been developed to facilitate sustainable finance. For more information visit the Law and Sustainable Finance course page By Lewis Bern Bees play a vital ecological role and provide enormous benefits through pollination. In the past fifty years, Europea ..read more

Student Volunteer Rights Defenders – Call for Applications for Academic Session 2023/24 About the Children’s Rights Policy Project The Children’s Rights Policy Project is an exciting new pro bono legal initiative as part of the Glasgow Open Justice Centre (GO Justice). The project will allow you to learn new skills in using the children’s rights to affect change in law, policy, and practice. You will be working alongside Bruce Adamson, the former Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland, on a project which will have direct impact on the domestic realisation of children’s rights in Sco ..read more

On World Children's Day we are delighted to share a special School of Law podcast episode.   Bruce Adamson, former Children and Young People’s Commissioner Scotland and Professor in Practice at the School of Law, speaks to three of our inspiring students about their work as children's rights defenders.  Jack Bell, Beau Johnston and Madeleine McKnight talk to Bruce about their experience in the field of children’s rights, considering issues such as the proposed incorporation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scottish Law, the environment and how we use the ..read more

~ By Beste Yasav On Tuesday 3rd October 2023, the School of Law had the privilege of hosting Professor Ann Skelton, Chair of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, at a special joint event with the University of Strathclyde’s Institute for Inspiring Children’s Futures. The ‘In Conversation’ event provided a unique opportunity for students and academics to engage with one of the world’s foremost child rights experts. Professor Ann Skelton boasts a distinguished career in child rights advocacy, spanning legal practice, teaching, research, and law reform on children’s rights. She currently ..read more