Dr. Alasdair Peterson

Biography

Alasdair Peterson joined the Edinburgh Law School in January 2022 as a Lecturer in Private Law. He previously studied for his LLB in 2012, completed his PhD in 2017, and obtained a Diploma in Professional Legal Practice in the same year. Before his appointment at Edinburgh, Alasdair was a Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Glasgow from 2020 to 2022. His principal research interests lie in the field of property law, alongside a broader focus on Scots and comparative private law. A revised version of Alasdair's doctoral thesis on Prescriptive Servitudes was published in 2020 as part of volume 7 in the Edinburgh Legal Education Trust's Studies in Scots Law series. He has also contributed to the national report on Scots law for the Common Core of European Private Law project regarding the Acquisition of Land for Long-Term Use, edited by B. Hoops and E. Marais. He is a member of the Ius Commune Research School and a Fellow of the European Law Institute. During his PhD studies, Alasdair spent a year in Hamburg as part of Professor Reinhard Zimmermann's group at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, and he has delivered Continuing Professional Development sessions on academic opinions to law firms across Scotland.

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