Mr. Brian Dempsey

Lecturer

Email: b.dempsey@dundee.ac.uk

Direct Dial: +44 (0)1382 386805

Room No: 4.22

Degrees

1998 LL.B(Hons), University of Edinburgh
1999 LL.M(Dist), University of Edinburgh
PGCertHE

Biography

In 2012 Brian received funding to produce two literature reviews, the first on the situation of men who experience domestic abuse and the second on domestic abuse learning materials in Scottish schools.

Brian was appointed as a lecturer at Dundee in 2007 having joined the School as a teaching assistant in 2005. He did his degree at Edinburgh University as a mature student. Prior to that he had worked in social services in Scotland and in London especially in housing and in HIV work and retains an interest in how law affects people in our everyday life.

Brian was editor of SCOLAG Legal Journal from 2000 to 2007 and and a board member of the Scottish Legal Action Group from 1996 to 2009.

In 2005 he was a member of the Solicitor General's Advisory Group on the Review of the Prosecution of Rape and Serious Sexual Offences and also a member of the advisory group working to Professor Maher at the Scottish Law Commission with reference to their review of sexual offences.

Brian maintains the website www.linsert.org

Teaching

Brian is currently module organiser for Law, Family and Society (levels 3/4) and Comparative Scottish and English Family Law (level 2) and teaches on the Private Law of Scotland 1 and Scottish Property Law modules in addition to supervising dissertations in his field.

Research

Brian is active in researching a number of areas including Scots irregular marriage, domestic abuse and LGBT law.

Selected Publications

Articles

2012 Brian Dempsey, "Law reform and devolution: consultation processes and divorce law in Scotland" in 63:2 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, pp. 225-243
2012 Brian Dempsey, "Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people and the law" in Mark Mulhern(eds) Scottish life and Society: A compendium of Scottish ethnology (John Donald: Edinburgh)
2011 Brian Dempsey, "Strange Bedfellows in the Pro-Marriage Campaigns" in SCOLAG Legal Journal, pp. 162-165
2011 Brian Dempsey, "Debating Domestic Abuse" in SCOLAG Legal Journal, pp. 116-117
2011 Brian Dempsey, "Gender Neutral Laws and Heterocentric Policies: "Domestic Abuse as Gender-Based Abuse and Same-Sex Couples" in Edinburgh Law Review
2010 Brian Dempsey, "Trans People's Experience of Domestic Abuse" in 2010 SCOLAG, pp. 208-212
2009 Brian Dempsey, "The Marriage (Scotland) Bill 1755; Lord Hardwicke's attempt to abolish clandestine and irregular marriage in Scotland" in Stair Society Miscellany VI, pp. 75-121
2009 Brian Dempsey, "Making the Gretna Blacksmith Redundant: who worried, who spoke, who was heard on the abolition of irregular marriage in Scotland" in 2009 Journal of Legal History, pp. 23-54
2009 Brian Dempsey, "The Difficulty of Reforming Divorce Law: The case of the responses to the Scottish law Commission's 1988 discussion paper on the grounds of divorce" in Juridical Review, pp. 1-38
2009 Brian Dempsey, "Burdenv UK: 'dissin' lesbians or decentring marriage" in 2009 (February) SCOLAG Legal Journal, pp. 35-38
2009 Brian Dempsey, "Burdenv UK: 'dissin' lesbians or decentring marriage" in (March) SCOLAG Legal Journal, pp. 58-63
2009 Brian Dempsey, "They are a bit, ken, 'thon wey'" in History Scotland Sept/Oct, pp. 46-53 and Nov/Dec pp. 46-53
2008 Brian Dempsey, "Scottish Jurists on Sodomy" in 2008 Juridical Review, pp. 73-94
2007 Brian Dempsey, "Miller; McFarlane: A case to answer?" with Professor Alistair Bissett-Johnson in Juridical Review, pp. 65-71
2006 Brian Dempsey, "By the Law of This and Every Well Governed Realm; Investigating Accusations of Sodomy in Nineteenth Century Scotland" in 2006 Juridical Review, pp. 103-130
2005 Brian Dempsey, "Farewell then common law marriage" in 2005 Dec JLSS, pp. 54-5
2004 Brian Dempsey, "The Gender Recognition Bill, or Westminster ate my GeRBill" in 2004 SCOLAG, pp. 183-185
2003 Brian Dempsey, "Men and Their Children as Victims of Domestic Abuse" in 2003 SCOLAG, pp. 48
2002 Brian Dempsey, "Same-Sex Couples in Scots Law" in 2002 SCOLAG, pp. 181-183, 191, 201-204
2001 Brian Dempsey, "A Modern Scots Criminal Law?" in 2001 SCOLAG, pp. 140
1999 Brian Dempsey, "Abuse of Trust: criminalising consenting adult behaviour?" in 1999 SCOLAG, pp. 77
1998 Brian Dempsey, "Piecemeal to Equality; Scottish Gay Law Reform" in L. Moran et al(eds) Legal Queeries (Cassells; London)
1995 Brian Dempsey, "Thon Wey; Aspects of Scottish lesbian and gay activism 1968-1992" in USG; Edinburgh
1995 Brian Dempsey, "Pink Papers; An Annotated bibliography of lesbian and gay journals" in USG; Edinburgh