Edinburgh academic joins Judicial Appointments Board

Professor Stephen Tierney of Edinburgh University has been appointed a lay member of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland.

Stephen Tierney is Professor of Constitutional Theory in the University's School of Law and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law. He is a graduate of the universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Toronto and has held visiting professorial positions in New Jersey and Barcelona. He was British Academy Senior Research Fellow 2008-2009 and Economic and Social Research Centre Senior Research Fellow 2013-2014. He also served as constitutional adviser to the Scottish Parliament’s Referendum (Scotland) Bill Committee in 2013 and to the House of Lords Constitution Committee in 2015. 

His appointment, which requires a time commitment of between 20 and 40 days a year, will run until 17 May 2019.