Reed and Murdoch: Human Rights Law in Scotland

Reed and Murdoch: Human Rights Law in Scotland provides essential practical guidance to the Scottish legal profession. The work explores the impact of human rights legislation in Scotland and provides a comprehensive review of European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence and relevant domestic legislation and case law, as well as an overview of Strasbourg enforcement machinery.

The Fifth Edition of this leading work has been fully updated to reflect new case law and developments in jurisprudence. This highly regarded title is essential reading for legal practitioners, government agencies, students and others who require a clear and up-to-date guide to the application of European human rights law in Scotland.

Jim Murdoch joined the School of Law at Glasgow in 1979 after qualifying as a solicitor. He read law as an undergraduate at Glasgow and has an LLM from the University of California at Berkeley. He was Head of the School of Law between 1996 and 2000.


He has taught at the Universities of Mainz, Freiburg, Hamburg, Paris Ouest and Aarhus, and was a professeur stagiaire with the Directorate of Human Rights of the Council of Europe in France. He is a regular participant in Council of Europe seminar programme visits to Central and East European states and has developed a particular interest in non-judicial human rights enforcement mechanisms. He served as one of two long-term experts for the Council of Europe on combating impunity in places of detention.