Professor Alan C. Page

Dean of School
Deputy Principal - Research Governance
Head of Research - College of Arts & Social Sciences
Professor of Public Law

Email: a.c.page@dundee.ac.uk

Direct Dial: +44 (0)1382 384633

Room No: 3.02

Degrees

LLB, University of Edinburgh
PhD, City University

Biography

Alan Page was appointed Professor of Public Law in 1985. He was previously a senior lecturer in the Department of Public Law (1981-85), and a lecturer at the Universities of Wales Cardiff (1975-80) and Westminster (1974-75).

He was appointed Dean of the School of Law in 2006, having previously been Head of the Department of Law (2004-2006 and 1985-95), Dean of the Faculty of Law (1986-89) and Head of the Department of Public Law (1981-86).

He has acted as a specialist adviser - to the Scottish Parliament's Subordinate Legislation Committee (2004-06), the House of Lords and House of Commons Joint Committee on Financial Services and Markets (1998-99), and the House of Commons Select Committee on Scottish Affairs (1993-97); to the London Stock Exchange (1992-93) where he was responsible for rewriting the rules of the Exchange; and to the European Union, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the United Nations in respect of many of the 'transition' countries of central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

He was a member of the Tax Law Review Committee (1994-2004) and the Scottish Law Commission's Advisory Group on the Law of the Foreshore and Seabed (2000-03); and the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's Lead Assessor in Law (1995-96).

He is an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Advanced Legal Studies and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Constitution Unit, University College London.

Teaching

Undergraduate:- Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, European Community Law.

I offer postgraduate supervision in the fields of Constitutional law, Financial Services Regulation, the role of law in transitional countries.

Research

He has published extensively in the fields of public law, EC law and financial services law. The unifying theme of much of his early work was the relationship between law, government and economic activity; more recently the focus has shifted to government itself, although still informed by an awareness of what government does or seeks to do in particular fields.

His book Investor Protection (with Robert Ferguson) offered the first comprehensive account of the regulation of the savings and investment industry in the United Kingdom, while his most recent book The Executive in the Constitution (with Terence Daintith), which draws on insights gained from that earlier work, offered the first constitutional and legal analysis of the inner workings of executive government for many years. Based on research undertaken within the framework of the ESRC's Whitehall programme, it showed how the executive's own mechanisms of control are no less crucial a dimension of the constitutional order than the more familiar external machinery of democratic and legal control - which can only be effective if the executive can control itself.

He is currently working on a book on Constitutional law in Scotland for the Scottish Universities Law Institute.

Selected Publications

Articles

2002 Alan Page, "Scotland's other Parliament: Westminster Legislation about Devolved Matters in Scotland since Devolution" in Public Law, pp. 501-523

Books

1999 Alan Page, "The Executive in the Constitution: Structure, Autonomy and Internal Control " with Terence Daintith, Oxford University Press ISBN: 019826870X

Book Chapters

2011 Alan Page, 'A Parliament that is Different? The Law-Making Process in the Scottish Parliament' 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. 9-31) 2 ISBN: 9780748640195
2006 Alan Page, 'One Legal System, Two Legislatures: Scottish Law Making after Devolution' in McHarg and Mullen(eds) Public Law in Scotland)
2005 Alan Page, 'A Parliament that is Different? Law Making in the Scottish Parliament' in Hazell and Rawlings(eds) Devolution, Law Making and the Constitution)
2004 Alan Page, 'Balancing Supremacy: EU Membership and the Constitution' in Giddings and Drewry(eds) Britain in the European Union: Law, Policy and Parliament)
2001 Alan Page, 'Constitutionalism, Judicial Review and the Evident Utility of the Subjects Within Scotland' in Farmer and Veitch(eds) The State of Scots Law)
2001 Alan Page, 'Regulating the Regulator - A Lawyer's Perspective on Accountability and Control' in Ferran and Goodhart(eds) Regulating Financial Services and Markets in the Twenty First Century)
2000 Alan Page, T.C. Daintith 'Internal Control in the Executive and its Constitutional Significance' in Rhodes(eds) Transforming British Government, Volume 1: Changing Institutions)
1999 Alan Page, 'The Citizen's Charter and Administrative Justice' in Harris and Partington(eds) Administrative Justice in the 21st Century)

Reports

2006 "Law Drafting and Regulatory Management in Georgia: An Assessment" in A report prepared for the OSCE's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
2004 "Centralisation and Decentralisation of Power in the United Kingdom, 1992-2000" in report to the House of Lords Select Committee in the Constitution, in the Committee's Annual Report 2002-03 (HL (2003-04) 19), Appendix 3