Mr. Robin M. White

Honorary Research Fellow

Email: r.m.white@dundee.ac.uk

Direct Dial: +44 (0)1382 384598

Room No: 3.21

Degrees

LLB, University of St Andrews
Postgraduate Certificate in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
LLM, University of London
Associate Member of the Institute of Linguists

Biography

Robin M White is an Honorary Research Fellow, having taken early retirement in 2009 after a many years as a Senior Lecturer. He was for a period Associate Dean of the former Faculty of Law and Accountancy. Earlier, he taught in various other institutions; on the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschsdienst Summer School on Modern English Law; and as Visiting Lecturer and Examiner for various professional bodies; and he was a QAA Subject Reviewer. On retirement, he was awarded the Chancellor�s Award for Lifetime Contribution to Teaching by the University.

Mr. White was for some years Depute Editor of Scolag Legal Journal, to which he also contributed, and reported Damages and Nationality and Immigration cases for Scottish Civil Law Reports. In 2003-04 he held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.

He has been a regularly-sitting Justice of the Peace for over twenty years and is currently on the Executive Committee of the Scottish Justices Association, and an Appraising Justice.

Teaching

Research

Mr White�s research has ranged across immigration, nationality and citizenship; criminal justice; damages; and legal system. In relation to immigration, nationality and citizenship, it has chiefly been concerned with the interaction of those concepts, and the meaning of citizenship. In relation to criminal justice, it is currently focussed on the phenomenon of �civil penalties�, their nature and justifiability; but other projects include comparison of the prosecution systems of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England & Wales, with particular reference to independence and accountability, and intra-UK comparisons generally. In relation to legal system, it is chiefly concerned at present with the mechanics of law reporting.

Selected Publications

Articles

2012 Robin White, "Lay Criminal Courts in Scotland - justifications for, and origins of, the new JP Court" in (2012) 16 Edinburgh Law Review, pp. 358-385
2011 Robin White, "'It's Not a Criminal Offence' - or Is It? Thornton's Analysis of 'Penal Provisions' and the Drafting of 'Civil Penalties'" in (2011) 32 Statute Law Review, pp. 17-37
2011 Robin White, "JP Courts and their Legal Advisers - a Lay Court?" in (2011) Juridical Review
2010 Robin White, "'Civil Penalties': Oxymoron, Chimera and Stealth Sanction?" in (2010) 126 Law Quarterly Review, pp. 593-606
2008 Robin White, "The Summary Criminal Proceedings (Abolition) (Scotland) Act 2007? A Critical View of Part 3 of the Criminal Proceedings, Etc (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007" in 2008 Juridical Review, pp. 215-240
2007 Robin White, "Parking's Fine: The enforceability of 'private' parking schemes" in 2007 Juridical Review, pp. 1-25
2006 Robin White, "Investigators and Prosecutors, or Desperately Seeking Scotland: re-formulation of the 'Philips Principle'" in 69 Modern Law Review, pp. 143-182
2002 Robin White, "Nationality, Citizenship and the Meaning of Naturalisation: Brubaker, the United Kingdom, European Union Citizens, Third Country Nationals and the European Union" in 53 Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, pp. 288-317
2000 Robin White, "The Legal Status of Human Rights in Scotland" with Professor C.T. Reid in 5 Scottish Law and Practice Quarterly, pp. 289-300
1999 Robin White, "Official Scottish Criminal Statistics: what do they mean?" in 1999 Juridical Review, pp. 343-355
1998 Robin White, "Nationality and Hong Kong; a tragedy in five acts?" in 6 Asia Pacific Law Review, pp. 23-65

Books

2007 Robin White, "Scottish Legal System " with Professor I.D. Willock, 4th Edition, Tottel, xl + 495pp ISBN: 978-1845927783
2000 Robin White, "Delictual Damages " with Sheriff M.J. Fletcher, Butterworths, xxiv + 224pp ISBN: 978-0406014467

Encyclopaedia Entries

2003 "Immigration: entry in The Laws of Scotland" in Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia Reissue, Niall R Whitty (eds), Law Society of Scotland/LexisNexisUK, 367 pages
2003 "Nationality and Citizenship: entry in The Laws of Scotland" in Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia Reissue, Niall R Whitty (eds), Law Society of Scotland/LexisNexisUK, 90 pages