| Professor Peter McEleavyEmail: p.e.mceleavy@dundee.ac.ukDirect Dial: +44 (0)1382 384452Room No: 3.11 |
B.Sc.(Surrey)
Ph.D.(Aberdeen)
Barrister (England & Wales), (N. Ireland)
Peter McEleavy took up a chair in international family law in February 2006. Prior to joining the School of Law he had been at the University of Aberdeen, first as a lecturer and then senior lecturer. He also previously lectured at the London School of Economics and the University of Angers in France. Peter McEleavy is a qualified barrister, having been called to the bars of England & Wales and Northern Ireland and is a door tenant at 1 Garden Court.
He is the editor of the Private International Law Current Developments section of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly. He is the legal consultant to INCADAT, the Hague Conference on Private International Law Child Abduction Database containing the leading case law arising out of the 1980 Child Abduction Convention.
Peter McEleavy has acted as a consultant to the UK government on European family law developments, in particular during the negotiation of the Brussels II bis Regulation. In 2009/10 he was instructed to advise the Ministry of Justice on the implementation of the 1996 Hague Convention on the Protection of Children. He is on the panel of experts of the TAIEX Office of the European Commission and regularly participates in training seminars in EU candidate countries, talking on civil cooperation in judicial matters.
In 2011 he joined the working group of the Council of Europe HELP programme (Strengthening professional training on the ECHR – European Programme for Human Rights Education for Legal Professionals), to provide training for judges on "Family Law and Human Rights".
Since 2010 Peter McEleavy has acted as examiner in International Private Law to the Faculty of Advocates.
Undergraduate:- Scots Family Law, Private International Law.
Postgraduate:- Private International Law (Common Law Perspective); Private International Law (Theories & Principles); International Family Law.
I offer postgraduate supervision in the field of private international law, in particular family aspects.
The primary focus of Peter McEleavy's research is on the family side of private international law. His doctoral thesis, a comparative analysis of the 1980 Hague Convention was published as an OUP monograph: The Hague Convention on International Child Abduction, 1999, (with P. Beaumont). This text has been recognised by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in the key judgement Mozes v. Mozes, 239 F.3d 1067 (2001) as 'the leading treatise on the Convention'. Since then his publications have centred on European family law developments, evaluating the merits of the European Community's involvement in this area, the law making process and subjecting initiatives and instruments to detailed analysis. He is currently working on the 2nd edition (with Aude Fiorini) which is to be published by OUP in 2013.
In 2009 Peter McEleavy joined the team of authors of the leading text Dicey, Morris & Collins on the Conflict of Laws. He is responsible for chapters 6, 19, 20 & 21 of the 15th edition which is to be published in 2012.
In 2011 he completed, with Paul Beaumont (Aberdeen), the 3rd edition of Anton's Private International Law. He is responsible for chapters 3, 4, 5, 7, 11, 14 (non-Rome II rules only), 15 – 20.
Selected Publications |
", Sweet & Maxwell, London ISBN: 978-0414043695", Sweet & Maxwell, London ISBN: 978-0-421-92920-3" with P. Beaumont, Oxford Monographs in Private International Law, Oxford University Press, Oxford ISBN: 9780198260646
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