Gillian Black

• Commissioner at the Scottish Law Commission (SLC)
• Officer of Arms, as Linlithgow Pursuivant Extraordinary

PUBLICATIONS

Gillian Black, Woolman and Black on Contract (6th ed, W Green, 2018; 5th ed, 2014; 4th ed 2010)

Gillian Black, Publicity Rights and Image: Exploitation and Legal Control (Hart, 2011)

Gillian Black, Data Protection – Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia (The Law Society of Scotland/LexisNexis, 2010)

· Crispin Agnew and Gillian Black, “Reforming the law of succession to peerages, baronetcies and dignities: Identifying problems and exploring solutions” (2023) Public Law 104

· Gillian Black, “Adult relationships and the ongoing legal significance of sexual intimacy”, in JM Scherpe and S Gilmore (eds) Family Matters: Essays in Honour of John Eekelaar. Scherpe (Intersentia, 2022), p. 309-328

· Gillian Black, “Scotland’s Named Person Scheme: A case study of Article 5 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in practice”, in C Fenton-Glynn and B Sloan (eds) Parental Guidance, State Responsibility and Evolving Capacities , (Brill Academic Publishers, 2021) p. 307-322

· Crispin Agnew and Gillian Black, “Sir Walter Scott of Abbotsford and the enigma of His ‘Moor Proper’ heraldic supporter”, History Scotland Magazine, November 2021

· Gillian Black, “Seeking the views of children: Judicial and statutory developments” (2021) 25(3) Edinburgh Law Review, 342

· Gillian Black, “Medical Chimera: a different type of heraldic beast?” 2021(1) The Double Tressure No 44, 46

· Gillian Black, “Making a Difference? Heraldry, human rights and matters of differencing” 2020 The Double Tressure No 43, 2

· Gillian Black, “Scotland’s Named Person scheme: a case study of Article 5 UNCRC in practice” (2020) International Journal of Children’s Rights

· Gillian Black, “Protecting Privacy in Divorce Actions: Article 8 and the Need for Law Reform”, (2019) Edinburgh Law Review 332-359

· Gillian Black, “Coyle v Coyle: Commentary”, in Sharon Cowan, Chloe Kennedy, Vanessa E Munro (eds), Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In (Hart, 2019)

· Gillian Black, “Birth and Status: the Ongoing Discrimination against Children in Scots law based on Parentage”, in Marit Skivenes and Karl Harald Sovig (eds), Child Rights and International Discrimination Law, (Routledge 2019).

· Crispin Agnew and Gillian Black, “The significance of status and genetics in succession to titles, honours, dignities and coats of arms: Making the case for reform”, (2018) Cambridge Law Journal, Vol 77, pp 321-348

· Gillian Black, “Identifying the legal parent/child relationship and the biological prerogative: Who then is my parent?”, 2018 Juridical Review 22-41

· Gillian Black, “Crossing the threshold: Judicial clarity on Permanence Orders and the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007”, (2017) Juridical Review 169-178

· Gillian Black and Leslie Stevens, “Enhancing Data Protection and Data Processing in the Public Sector: The Critical Role of Proportionality and the Public Interest” (2013) 10 SCRIPTed 93-122

· Gillian Black, Daniel Carr, “Cohabitants’ rights in conflict: The Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 vs unjustified enrichment in Courtney’s Executors v Campbell”, (2017), Edinburgh Law Review, Vol 21, pp 293-300

· Gillian Black “When is a Parent not a Parent?: CS v KS and JS and the Question of Genetic Parentage or Social Parenting” (2015) Edinburgh Law Review 192 263-268

· Gillian Black “Exploiting Image: Making a Case for the Legal Regulation of Publicity Rights in the United Kingdom” (2011) European Intellectual Property Review 413-418

· Gillian Black, “Child contact and contempt of court” (2022) Scots Law Times, 125

· Gillian Black, “Contact Hearings and Contempt of Court: SM v CM”, (2017), Edinburgh Law Review, Vol 21, pp 275-281

University education

Sept 2005 – Jan 2009, PhD (part-time), University of Edinburgh, “A Right of Publicity in Scots Law”

1999-2000, Diploma in Legal Practice, Glasgow Graduate School of Law, Prize for Professional Ethics

1995-1999, LLB (Hons), University of Glasgow, First class Honours, Bennett Miller Prize for Private Law