The Stirling Law School

Elaine E. Sutherland joined the School of Law at Stirling University in 2006 to take up the post as Professor of Child and Family Law. She teaches and researches at Stirling for half of the year (January to June) and spends the other half of the year doing much the same at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.

Current Appointments:

Professor of Child and Family Law

School of Law, University of Stirling, 2006

Professor of Law

Lewis & Clark School of Law

Portland, Oregon, 1999 - present

Academic and Professional Qualifications:

LLB (1st class Honours in Private Law), University of Glasgow, 1978

LLM, University of British Columbia, Canada, 1995

Employment History (principal):

Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader, School of Law, University of Glasgow, 1989-2005

Lecturer, Department of Scots Law, University of Edinburgh, 1980-1988

Apprentice Solicitor, Drummond & Co, W.S., Edinburgh, 1979-1980

Employment History (occasional):

Safeguarder, Lothian and Borders, 1991-1995

Visiting Professor, Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland, Oregon, various dates, 1984-1995

Lecturer, Visiting European Lawyers Programme, University of Edinburgh, 1982-1988

Visiting Professor, McGeorge School of Law, University of Pacific, California, Summer 1985

Summer Researcher, Scottish Law Commission, 1978 and 1979

Current Projects:

Specific:

She is currently working on a number of projects, including,

• The final stages of editing The Future of Child and Family Law: International Predictions (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming August 2012), a 14 chapter book examining developments in various countries around the world. For further details of the book, click on the link above.
• Writing the new edition of Family Lawbasics which will be published by W. Green in 2013.
• Writing the Scottish chapter for the International Survey of Family Law: 2013 edition, which will be published by Jordans in 2013.

General:

Comparing the impact of the European Convention on Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, on child and family law, in general, and children's rights, in particular, with that of the U.S. Constitution, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, in these areas.

Child Law

Family Law

Comparative Family Law

Juvenile Justice

Human Rights and the Family

Medico-Legal Issues and the Family

Gender and the Law