Rob Gibson, LLB DipLP MSc

I index across a wide range of legal areas and I undertake legal tabling. In this, I draw on extensive previous experience of legal practice and academic publishing. I qualified as a solicitor in Scotland, progressing to partner over the course of ten years working in corporate law and finance in London and Glasgow. Thereafter I spent six years as a senior commissioning editor at Palgrave Macmillan, responsible for a wide-ranging list of prominent legal textbooks and the award-winning Socio-Legal Studies monograph series.
Books indexed:
International Law and Human Rights
Belligerent Reprisals from Enforcement to Reciprocity (Romani, 2024)
The Faustian Pact in International Law (Bikundo, 2024)
Visual Power, Representation and Migration Law (Gozdecka, 2024)
The Making of an International Investment Facilitation Framework (ed Berger & Chi, 2024)
International Human Rights Law and Practice, 4e (Bantekas & Oette, 2023)
Tackling Torture: Prevention in Practice (Evans, 2023)
The Local Impact of the International Criminal Court (Wierda, 2022)
Torture, Inhumanity and Degradation under Article 3 of the EHCR (Mavronicola, 2021) (Peter Birks Prize winner)
Social Institutions and International Human Rights Law Implementation (Fraser, 2020)
Law of England and Wales
Tribunal Practice and Procedure, 6e (Jacobs, 2024)
Making Lawful Decisions (Legal Action Group, 2024)
Sexual History Evidence and the Rape Trial (Conaghan & Russell, 2023)
Contract Law, 4e (Cartwright, 2023)
Employment Law Handbook, 8e/9e (Barnett, 2020/2023)
Belief in Marriage: The Evidence for Reforming Weddings Law (Probert, Akhtar & Blake, 2023)
Noise and Noise Law (McManus with McKenzie, 2023)
The Legal Aid Market: Challenges for Publicly Funded Immigration and Asylum Legal Representation (Wilding, 2021)
Future Law: Emerging Technology, Ethics and Regulation (ed Edwards, Schafer & Harbinja, 2020)
Scots Law
Trust Beneficiaries and Third Parties (Follan, 2024)
Expenses: A Civil Practitioner’s Handbook (Nicol & Flett, 2022)
Scots Commercial Law, 2e (ed Anderson, 2022)
The Law of Delict in Scotland (Reid, 2022)
Continuity, Influences and Integration in Scottish Legal History: Select Essays of David Sellar (ed MacQueen, 2022)
Delict, 3e (McManus, Conway & Russell, 2021)
Scottish Legal System Essentials, 4e (Keegan, 2021)
A History of Child Protection Law in Scotland (Norrie, 2020)
Laws of Other Nations / EU Law
Law and Religion in Ireland, 1530-1970 (ed Howlin & Costello, 2021)
EMU Integration and Member States’ Constitutions (ed Griller & Lentsch, 2021)
Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law (Mérieau, 2021)
Fintech Regulation in China (Huang, 2021)
Experimentalist Competition Law and the Regulation of Markets (Svetiev, 2020)
Comparative Law
The Entrenchment of Democracy: The Comparative Constitutional Design of Elections, Parties and Voting (ed Ginsburg, Huq and Khaitan, 2024)
Claiming a Promised Inheritance: A Comparative Study (Braun, 2022)
Legal History
Continuity, Influences and Integration in Scottish Legal History: Select Essays of David Sellar (ed MacQueen, 2022)
Law and Religion in Ireland, 1530-1970 (ed Howlin & Costello, 2021)
A History of Child Protection Law in Scotland (Norrie, 2020)
Legal Tabling Only
Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (Kennedy, 2024) (plus bibliography)
The EU Digital Services Act: A Commentary (Wilman, Kaleda & Loewenthal, 2024)
The 1972 World Heritage Convention, 2e (ed Francioni & Lenzerini, 2023)
Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights (Mantouvalou, 2022)
Courts, Regulators and the Scrutiny of Economic Evidence (Mantzari, 2022)

Politics and International Relations
I have long been an interested observer of national and international politics.
Books indexed:
UK Politics
The Politics of Police Governance: Scottish Police Reform, Localism, and Epistocracy (Malik, 2024)
Contesting Aviation Expansion: Depoliticisation, Technologies of Government and Post-Aviation Futures (Griggs & Howarth, 2023)
The Unfinished Politics of Race: Histories of Political Participation, Migration and Multiculturism (Back, Keith, Shukra & Solomos, 2022)
The Ironic State: British Comedy and the Everyday Politics of Globalization (Brassett, 2021)
The Politics and Ideology of Planning (Marshall, 2021)
Contested Britain: Brexit, Austerity and Agency (ed Guderjan, Mackay & Stedman, 2020)
Other National and Regional Politics
The New Experts: Populist Elites and Technocratic Promises in Modi’s India (Sajjanhar, 2023)
Iran’s Soft Power in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Ahmed & Akbar, 2023)
Governing the EU in an Age of Division (Rohac, 2022)
Identity in the Shadow of a Giant: How the Rise of China Is Changing Taiwan (Gartner et al, 2021)
Global Politics
The Short Guide to International Development (Sage, 2022)
Overkill or Under-kill (Paice, 2022)
Grand Strategy in 10 Words: A Guide to Great Power Politics in the 21st Century (Biscop, 2021)
Political Philosophy
What Are Animal Rights For? (Cooke, 2023)
Animals and Capital (Wadiwel, 2023)

Social Sciences
I index widely across the social sciences.
Books indexed:
Transgender Intersections (Sojka & de Vries, 2024)
Wembley Speaks: What the Nextdoor Neighbours are Saying (Games, 2024)
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan (Borisova, 2024)
What are Prisons For? (Bhui, 2024)
Elements of Research Design (Hjelm, 2024)
Social Research for our Times: Thomas Coram Research Unit past, present and future (Cameron, Koslowski, Lamont & Moss, 2023)
Solitude: The Science and Power of Alone Time (Weinstein, Hansen & Nguyen, 2023)
The Child–Parent Caregiving Relationship in Later Life: Psychosocial Experiences (Morgan Brett, 2023)
Disrupted Knowledge: Scholarship in a Time of Change (ed Sikka, Longstaff & Walls, 2023)
Disproportionate Minority Contact and Racism in the US (Ketchum & Peck, 2022)
Giving Voice to Diversity in Criminological Research (ed Lynch, Windle & Ahmed, 2021)
Sex, Consent and Justice: A New Feminist Framework (Sikka, 2021)
The Imposter as Social Theory: Thinking with Gatecrashers, Cheats and Charlatans (Woolgar et al, 2021)
Co-Creation in Theory and Practice: Exploring Creativity in the Global North and South (ed Horvath & Carpenter, 2020)
Social Divisions, 4e (ed Payne & Harrison, 2020)
Imagining Regulation Differently: Co-Creating for Engagement (ed McDermont et al, 2020)

Arts and Culture
I am moderately well read, and have interests in art, music and opera.
Books indexed:
The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain (Pallant House Gallery, 2024)
The Cambridge Companion to William Morris (ed Waithe, 2024)
Race, Nation and Cultural Power in Film Adaptation (Roberts, 2022)
Modernist Intimacies (Högberg, 2021)
Cross-Channel Modernisms (ed Davison, Ryan & Goldman, 2020)

History and Heritage
I have general interests in history and heritage management, and am an occasional steward at Winchester College’s treasury museum.
Books indexed:
The Winchester Power-House: The Lives of the Bishops to the Kingdom of Wessex, AD634 to 1070 (Paice, 2024)
Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, Exploring and Describing Early Modern Russia (Shaw, 2024)
What is History For? (Gildea, 2024)
The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1 (ed Brownlees, 2022)
plus works on legal history – see under Law above.

Travel and Tourism
I hold an MSc in international tourism management, and have a specific interest in the operation of heritage visitor attractions. In 2004 I co-authored (with Leask) a published academic paper: Visitor Motivation and VFR at Historic Houses: the Case of Two Castles. I have travelled widely on an independent basis throughout much of my adult life.
Books indexed:
The Rise of Tourism in China (Li, 2023)
Control, Abuse, Bullying and Family Violence in Tourism Industries (Zentveld, 2023)
Changing Practices of Tourism Stakeholders in Covid-19 Affected Destinations (ed Çakmak, Isaac & Butler, 2023)
The Local Turn in Tourism: Empowering Communities (ed Higgins-Desbiolles & Bigby, 2022)

Publishing
I have substantial first-hand experience of the publishing industry, both in sales and as a senior editor commissioning academic monographs and textbooks.
Books indexed:
Creative Self-Publishing, 2e (Ross/Alliance of Independent Authors, 2023)
The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1 (ed Brownlees, 2022)
Your Book in Bookstores (Young/Alliance of Independent Authors, 2021)

Other Indexes
What Is It For? series (Bristol University Press, 2023 to date): volumes on Animal Rights, Counterterrorism, History, Journalism, the Monarchy, Museums, Prisons, the Olympics, Veganism and Zoos
Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool (Parsons, 2022)
Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence (McQuillan, 2022)