Senior Lecturer
LLB (Hons) (Strathclyde), Dip L.P (Strathclyde), PhD (Strathclyde)

Email: lorna.e.gillies@le.ac.uk
Telephone: 0116 252 2359

Lorna is a Senior Lecturer in Law, a non-practising Scottish solicitor and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. At Leicester, Lorna teaches Conflict of Laws and convenes Commercial Law at undergraduate level and is also module convenor of the two LLM Commercial Conflict of Laws modules (Jurisdiction and Choice of Laws Issues). Lorna authors and presents the EU Consumer Protection Law module to students studying on the LLM in European Union Law by Distance Learning. Lorna also supervis es PhD students. In recent years, Lorna has acted as an external examiner for Queen Mary, University of London and the University of Sheffield. She has also peer reviewed for the Computer Law and Security Report, the International Journal of Law and Information Technology and the Journal of Consumer Policy.

Research Interests

Lorna’s principal and current research interests focus on the commercial aspects of international private law/conflict of laws, in particular the influence of the EU on the reform and development of international private law theory and practice. She is a specialist in the jurisdiction and choice of law aspects of electronic commerce and in May 2010 her work was referenced by AG Trstenjak in Cases C-585/08 (Pammer) and C-144/09 (Hotel Alpenhof) (18 May 2010). In 2011-12 Lorna will be a Visiting Fellow at the IALS, London.

Selected Publications

• “Determining the Applicable Law for Breach of Competition Claims in the Rome II Regulation and the Need for Effective Consumer Collective Redress,” in Mel Kenny and James Devenney (eds), European Consumer Protection : Theory and Practice, Cambridge: University Press, April 2012, ISBN 978-1-107-01301-8.
  
• “Clarifying the ‘Philosophy of Article 15’ in the Brussels I Regulation: C-585/08 Peter Pammer v Reedere Karl Schluter GmbH & Co and C-144/09 Hotel Alpenhof GesmbH & Co KG v Oliver Heller,” 2011 (60) ICLQ 557-564 (abstract link)
• Electronic Commerce and International Private Law: A Study of Electronic Consumer Contracts, Markets and the Law Series, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-4855-0.
• “Addressing the ‘Cyberspace Fallacy’: Targeting the Jurisdiction of an Electronic Consumer Contract,” International Journal of Law and Information Technology, p.242-269, Volume 16, Issue 3, 2008.

Full publication list (pdf)