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Dr Jonathan Ainslie

Dr Jonathan Ainslie
Dr Jonathan Ainslie
Dr Jonathan Ainslie

LLB Hons (Edin), LLM (Edin), PhD (Edin), AFHEA

Lecturer in Private Law

About
Email Address
jonathan.ainslie@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 273847
Office Address

D49 Taylor Building 

High Street 

Old Aberdeen

School/Department
School of Law

Biography

I have been a Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Aberdeen since February 2022. I initially joined the School of Law as a Teaching Fellow in September 2021.

I was a Tutor in Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh from 2018 to 2021. I hold an LLB Hons (in law and politics), LLM (in comparative and European private law) and PhD (in legal history), all from the University of Edinburgh.

I am an Advance HE Associate Fellow, a member of the council of the Stair Society and an associate member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen. I grew up in Bridge of Earn, Perthshire. 

I am actively seeking full time or part time PhD students in the areas of Scots private law and Scottish legal history, especially with a focus on the law of obligations.  

External Memberships

Advance HE Associate Fellow

Member of the Council of the Stair Society 

Associate Member of the Society of Advocates in Aberdeen

Latest Publications

  • Response to Scottish Parliament Call for Views on the Digital Assets (Scotland) Bill

    Macpherson, A., Yüksel Ripley, B., Ainslie, J., Emedosi, C., McKenzie Skene, D., West, E.
    Other Contributions: Other Contributions

  • Response to Scottish Government Consultation on Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation

    Farrington, F., Borg Barthet, J., Ferguson, E., Ainslie, J., Macpherson, A., Skilling, M., Poesen, M., Gordon, G.
    University of Aberdeen: School of Law. 49 pages.
    Other Contributions: Other Contributions

  • Response to Scottish Government Consultation on Digital Assets in Scots Private Law

    Macpherson, A., Yüksel Ripley, B., Ainslie, J., Emedosi, C., McKenzie Skene, D., West, E.
    University of Aberdeen: School of Law (PDF Document).
    Other Contributions: Other Contributions

  • Response to House of Lords Special Public Bill Committee Call for Evidence on Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill

    Macpherson, A., McKenzie Skene, D., Yüksel Ripley, B., Ainslie, J., Emedosi, C., West, E.
    University of Aberdeen: School of Law (PDF doc). 4 pages.
    Other Contributions: Other Contributions

  • Consultation on Tenement Law: Compulsory Owners' Associations: Response by the Centre for Scots Law at the University of Aberdeen

    West, E., McKenzie Skene, D., Macpherson, A., Ainslie, J., Skilling, M., Styles, S.
    University of Aberdeen: School of Law.
    Other Contributions: Other Contributions

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Prizes and Awards

Modern Law Review Scholarship 2018-2020

Research

Research Overview

Recent published articles have concerned duties of good faith in Scots contract law and the protection of privacy interests in the Scots law of delict. I am currently working on a range of topics including the history and theory of the monetary remedy of solatium (to acknowledge pain, suffering, affront or hurt feelings) in Scots private law. 

I am interested in the historical influence of the Dutch-Roman legal tradition in Scotland and the relationships between Scottish and Dutch lawyers in the 16th-18th centuries. I have a long-term research project to explore this. 

Funding and Grants

I am grateful for the support of the Scottish Universities Law Institute Early Career Fellowship, which I received in 2023. 

Teaching

Courses

Teaching Responsibilities

I am the course coordinator for two courses: Law of Property and Property Law (Honours). In the 2025-56 session, I will also be temporarily coordinating Tort in a Comparative Context. I teach on a wide variety of Scots private law and English private law courses. I co-supervise postgraduate research students in the areas of private law and legal history. 

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