Mr. Stuart Cross

Senior Lecturer

Email: s.r.cross@dundee.ac.uk

Direct Dial: +44 (0)1382 384603

Room No: 3.13

Degrees

LLB (Hons), Glasgow
Dip.Pet.Law, Dundee
Solicitor
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Biography

Stuart Cross joined the then Department of Law in 1994 and has been a Senior Lecturer since 2002. He is a graduate of the University of Glasgow and a qualified solicitor.

After postgraduate study at the University of Dundee he had twelve years' experience as a practising solicitor specialising in corporate law, latterly as a partner in a commercial firm in Glasgow. Since moving to Dundee he has linked his interests in company and commercial law with activity in relation to charities. Under the aegis of the Law School's Charity Law Research Unit he has participated in major research projects commissioned by the Scottish Office/Scottish Executive (1997-2000), and in 2004 advised the Scottish Executive's Bill Reference Group for the then Charities and Trustee Investment ( Scotland) Bill in relation to proposals for a new charitable incorporated body in Scotland.

He Continues to advise the Scottish Government in relation to the development of the Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation.

Teaching

Undergraduate:- Foundations of Law, Private Law of Scotland III, Intellectual Property Law
Postgraduate:- Intellectual Property Law, Principles of E-Commerce Law

I offer postgraduate supervision in the field of company law, corporate governance, copyright related issues and charity law.

Research

Publications range across the areas of company law, charity law, corporate governance and the interface between law and technology. Much of the research focuses on the evolution of new legal forms and the relationship between those legal forms and existing legal structures and developed bodies of law. Recent work has focussed on charity law and, in particular, the passage of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 which has substantially changed charity law in Scotland. I am also involved in the AHRC 'Rewind' project at the University of Dundee which involves the digital archiving of early video material.

Selected Publications

Articles

2012 Stuart Cross, "Legal Determinants of External Finance Revisited: The Inverse Relationship Between Investor Protection and Societal Well-Being" with David Collison, John Ferguson, David Power and Lorna Stevenson. in J Bus Ethics 108, pp. 393�410
2011 Stuart Cross, "Shareholder Primacy in UK Corporate Law: An Exploration of the Rationale and Evidence" with David Collison, John Ferguson, David Power and Lorna Stevenson in Research Report 125, for ACCA, pp. 1-53
2008 Stuart Cross, "New Legal Forms for Charities in the United Kingdom" in Journal of Business Law
2007 Stuart Cross, "A New legal Form for Charities : The Scottish Charitable Organisation" in S.L.T. 39, pp. 281-284
2007 Stuart Cross, "Consumer Protection Compliance in Agent Negotiated Business to Consumer Transactions" in Proceedings of the Fifth IASTED International Conference on Law and Technology, Berkeley, pp. 24-34
2007 Stuart Cross, "Evidence on UK Directors' Compliance with Disclosure Timing Regulations" with Brian Balmforth, Bruce M.Burton and David M. Power in Journal of Financial Regulation, 15, pp. 381-393
2007 Stuart Cross, "The Scottish Charitable Organisation" in Greens Business Law Bulletin, 91, pp. 1-3
2004 Stuart Cross, "The Community Interest Company: More Confusion in the Quest for Limited Liability" in Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 55(3), pp. 302-319
2004 Stuart Cross, "Corporate Governance, Information Technology and the Electronic Company" in United Kingdom Information and Communications Technology Law (13)(2), pp. 117-128
2004 Stuart Cross, "Agency, Contract and Intelligent Software Agents" in International review of Law Computers and Technology 17(2), pp. 175-189
2003 Stuart Cross, "Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2000: Problems Ahead?" in Journal of Business Law, pp. 268-283
2000 Stuart Cross, "Dormant, Struck Off or Dissolved?" in Scottish Law and Practice Quarterly, pp. 240-249
2000 Stuart Cross, "What Price a Directorship? - Trends in the Duty of Skill and Care" in Scottish Law and Practice Quarterly, pp. 322-332
1999 Stuart Cross, "Partnerships and Limited Liability - The Way Ahead?" in Juridical Review Issue 5, pp. 259-275
1997 Stuart Cross, "Scottish Charities and Governance" with A. Belcher and C.R. Barker in Juridical Review Issue 3, pp. 176-189

Books

2010 Stuart Cross, "Charities" with Dr. P. Ford, Stair memorial Encyclopaedia of Scotland (1-190)
2006 Stuart Cross, "Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005 " with P.J. Ford, W. Green & Son ISBN: 0414016637

Book Chapters

2011 Stuart Cross, 'Charity Law: An Issue of Choice' in E. Sutherland, K.E. Goodaal, G.F.M. Little and F.P. Davidson(eds) Law Making and the Scottish Parliament: The Early Years" (Edinburgh University Press, pp. 103-123) 6 ISBN: 9780748640195
2008 Stuart Cross, 'Agency' in Business Law in Scotland (W. Green)
2003 Stuart Cross, 'Agency' in Fundamentals of Scots Law (W. Green)