Dr. Jane Mair

Professor

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Biography

Jane Mair currently holds the position of Professor of Private Law, having joined the School of Law originally in 1989 as a lecturer. She earned her LLB from Edinburgh in 1984, focusing on labor law and discrimination, and completed her LLM at Cambridge in 1985, with a focus on the regulation of marriage and matrimonial property. She obtained her PhD from Edinburgh in 1992. Professor Mair has a broad background in private law, with an ongoing concentration on teaching and research in employment law and family law. Her research interests include the contractualisation of family law, specifically the Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985, which provides a framework for financial provision upon divorce. One of her aims is to investigate the context of adjudicated cases through a Nuffield Foundation project, examining how statutory provisions are applied in practice by legal professionals. Mair's research agenda also explores the intersection of religion and family law, contributing to various European projects and conducting audits concerning religious privileges in Scottish law. Additionally, she supervises research students and teaches various law subjects.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor of Private Law

1989-01-01 — Present

University of Glasgow • Glasgow, UK

Teaching and research in private law, focusing on family law and employment law.

Courses

Family Law (Level 1) Business Law (Level 1) Elements of Law for Engineers (Level 1) Labour Law (Level 2) Issues in Family Law (Level 4)