Related Staff According to Areas of Research

Family Law

Raitt, Professor Fiona E.
McEleavy, Professor Peter
Fiorini, Ms. Aude

University of Dundee

Mr. Brian Dempsey 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

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 lectures on the Scots Family Law module and the Scots Contract Law Module as well as leading tutorials in number of subjects including Contract, Constitutional, Mercantile and Delict.

Research

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

Articles

• 2011 "Strange Bedfellows in the Pro-Marriage Campaigns" in SCOLAG Legal Journal, pp. 162-165
• 2011 "Debating Domestic Abuse" in SCOLAG Legal Journal, pp. 116-117
• 2011 "Gender Neutral Laws and Heterocentric Policies: "Domestic Abuse as Gender-Based Abuse and Same-Sex Couples" in Edinburgh Law Review
• 2011 "Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people and the law" in Mark Mulhern(eds) Scottish life and Society: A compendium of Scottish ethnology
• 2009 "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 "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 "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 "Burdenv UK: 'dissin' lesbians or decentring marriage" in 2009 (February) SCOLAG Legal Journal, pp. 35-38
• 2009 "Burdenv UK: 'dissin' lesbians or decentring marriage" in (March) SCOLAG Legal Journal, pp. 58-63
• 2008 "Scottish Jurists on Sodomy" in 2008 Juridical Review, pp. 73-94
• 2007 "Miller; McFarlane: A case to answer?" with Professor Alistair Bissett-Johnson in Juridical Review, pp. 65-71
• 2006 "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 "Farewell then common law marriage" in 2005 Dec JLSS, pp. 54-5
• 2004 "The Gender Recognition Bill, or Westminster ate my GeRBill" in 2004 SCOLAG, pp. 183-185
• 2003 "Men and Their Children as Victims of Domestic Abuse" in 2003 SCOLAG, pp. 48
• 2002 "Same-Sex Couples in Scots Law" in 2002 SCOLAG, pp. 181-183, 191, 201-204
• 2001 "A Modern Scots Criminal Law?" in 2001 SCOLAG, pp. 140
• 1999 "Abuse of Trust: criminalising consenting adult behaviour?" in 1999 SCOLAG, pp. 77
• 1998 "Piecemeal to Equality; Scottish Gay Law Reform" in L. Moran et al(eds) Legal Queeries (Cassells; London)
• 1995 "Thon Wey; Aspects of Scottish lesbian and gay activism 1968-1992" in USG; Edinburgh
• 1995 "Pink Papers; An Annotated bibliography of lesbian and gay journals" in USG; Edinburgh