School of Law

Room 2.2, Airthrey Castle

School of Law

University of Stirling

Stirling

FK9 4LA
Scotland

UK

David McArdle read Law at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and worked in legal publishing before commencing his PhD studies in 1993 under the supervision of Professor Steve Redhead at Manchester Metropolitan University.  Prior to moving to Scotland in 2002 he held research posts at Manchester Metropolitan, De Montfort and Middlesex Universities.

LLB University of Wales 1989

PhD Manchester Metropolitan University 1997

Lecturer, Robert Gordon University, 2002-2005

Research Fellow, De Montfort University, 1998-2001

Research Fellow, Middlesex University, 1997-1998

Research Assistant, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1993-1997

Discrimination Law (especially Disability and HIV/AIDS discrimination)

Sports Law

Sport and Human Rights

Research quoted by Lord Moynihan in the House of Lords debate on the gender recognition bill, 14 January 2004

Editor, Entertainment and Sports Law Journal since 2001.

Editorial Board Member, Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Journal

Guest Editor, Cambrian Law Review in 2009 (in addition to 2005)

Guest Editor, Sport in Society 2004.

Guest Editor, European Sports Management Quarterly 2002.

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Law, University of Johannesburg 2004.

Visiting Fellow, State University of Management, Moscow, July 2006

Invited Editor, SCOLAG/SCC publication on Civil Justice in Scotland, 2007

Judge of the Edinburgh-Osnabruck Binational EU Law Moot, November 2009

External Review Panel Member for the MA in Sport, Law and Society, Leeds Metropolitan University 2009/10

Scientific Committee member, International Sport Law and Business Conference, Istanbul, September 2010

£20,000 Seedcorn Funding from Middlesex University Business School in 1997.

£1,000 from the British Academy in 1999 to fund qualitative data collection on sexual harrassment in US college sports.

£1,000 from the Combined Heating and Power Association in 2002 to fund research into 'fuel poverty' among older people.

£10,000 from the Clark Foundation in 2006 to fund a research studentship into Scots Law and Disability Discrimination.

£770.00 from the Carnegie Trust in 2007 to fund fieldwork concerning adventure activities provision in the Highlands and Islands.

£10,000 from the Scottish Consumer Council in 2007 to fund a publication concerning civil justice reform in Scotland

£5,000 from the Association of Commonwealth Universities/British Academy International Collaboration Grants Scheme in 2008 to fund research into adventure activities provision Scotland and South Africa.

£1.000 Royal Society of Edinburgh's International Exchange Programme in 2009 to support research into anti-doping policies in the EU.

LAW9IT: Information Technology Law

LAW9CL: Competition Law

LAW9SP: Sports Law

SPSP04: MSc in Sports Law

2009: Evangelos Alexandrikis, 'The (Il)legality of Ambush Marketing'

2009: Rajalakshmi Nadadur Kannan, 'Intellectual Property and the Indian Film Industry'

2007: Samuel Condry, 'Sport, Disability and Scots Law' (MPhil awarded 2008)

2005: Anke Beyer, 'Collective Bargaining in Germany and the UK' (MPhil awarded 2007).

Deputy Head of Department

Departmental Examinations Officer

Departmental Disabilities Co-ordinator

Member of Principal's Sport Research Task Group

Society of Legal Scholars

Sport and Recreation Law Association

Cycling

Walking

Music and Literature

Running

Swimming