AHRC/SCRIPT - a law and technology centre at the University of Edinburgh sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Foresight Fora

The following
Foresight Fora or "Academic Think Tanks" have been established under the AHRC/SCRIPT Centre:

Intellectual Property Foresight Forum

European Association of Health law

IT Think Tank

Associated Projects

GET: Social Values Project

Obtaining, protecting and using essential environmental technologies: a holistic analysis

Implanted Smart Technologies: What Counts as 'Normal' in the 21st Century?

Postgraduate

PhD Research
The Centre has a vibrant community of over 20 doctoral candidates affiliated to the work of Co-directors. In previous years, these have included researchers studying, for example, copyright and higher education, community resources and the protection of traditional knowledge, telecommunications regulation, and intellectual property and competition law.More...

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The People

Please click on the links provided below to read more about the people behind the SCRIPT Centre.

Professor
Graeme Laurie

Co-Director

Professor
Burkhard
Schafer

Director

Professor
Hector
MacQueen

Associate

See full list of people

Research

Research at the Centre
Phase 2 of the AHRC Centre is driven by the overarching theme of understanding and responding to the inter-connectedness of systems of innovation, technological development and promotion, regulation, human interaction, human rights and, ultimately, the law. The Centre hosts eleven AHRC-sponsored projects as well as other ground-breaking initiatives, such as its Law & Technology Foresight Fora More..

Announcements

A Critique of the Law-and-Economics Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights
Dr Andreas Rahmatian
University of Glasgow
28th November 2012 .
LT183, Old College 17:00 to 19:00

SCRIPT celebrates pioneering 10 years

Journal

SCRIPTed
SCRIPTed is a high-quality, online, international, interdisciplinary and multi-lingual journal of peer-reviewed articles, analysis pieces, case and legislation critiques, as well as commentaries, reports, and book reviews pertaining to law, society, and technologies in the broadest sense. More..

Teaching

LLM and Law CPD courses by
online distance learning
Ongoing research at the Centre allows staff to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in the fields of intellectual property law, information technology law, and medical jurisprudence, all of which underpins the curricula of our online LLM programmes, as well as our CPD courses. More..