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• Inheritance Of Cryptocurrency Under Forced Heirship Laws: Implications For Scots Succession Law

  19-Feb-2026

  ‘No department of municipal law is more intimately connected with the state of society than that which relates to the rights of heirs, and the rules of descent; and in none perhaps are differences so essential to be found in comparing the laws and institutions of various countries.’  

  - Professor George Joseph Bell, Commentaries on the Law of Scotland (1826)
  
  

  Forced heirship in Scotland is designed to protect close relatives from being disinherited, ensuring they receive a portion of the deceased's movable property. However, in the dynamic landscape of modern asset ownership, the proliferation of cryptocurrencies poses unique challenges for Scotland's inheritance laws that strain the administrative boundaries of and further weaken the limited protection afforded by its forced heirship system. 

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• Beyond the Verdict: Pointing to the Issues Relating to Antenatal Gender Revelation in Bangladesh

  19-Feb-2026

  In a 2024 decision, a divisional bench of the High Court Division (HCD) of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh has imposed an embargo on prenatal sex detection in Bangladesh in order to prevent gender-biased sex identification and protect unborn babies and pregnant women. The court verdict restricting gender revelation before birth triggered broader attention among the physicians and the larger community as well in Bangladesh. The HCD took a nuanced approach and directed the authorities concerned to adhere to the guidelines prepared by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) titled ‘National Guideline for the Prevention of Son Preference and the Risk of Gender- Biased Sex Selection, 2022’. The guideline discouraged disclosure of foetal gender identification for non-medical or social reasons, but it can detect and reveal the sex for the treatment of the foetus.  

  However, it is not clear what ‘discourage’ means in this context. Also, the consequence of non-compliance with the guideline is not understandable as jurisprudentially only parliament can inflict punishment or suggest penalty for breach of a law. Nonetheless, it is apparent that the court does not completely ban it but rather restricts it for non-medical or social purposes. Before this judgment declared in the Ishrat Hasan vs Bangladesh represented by the secretaries to the ministries of health, women and children affairs and social welfare affairs, directorate generals of health services, family planning, department of women affairs and the national institute of population research and training, it was not illegal to know whether it was a boy or girl by an expecting parent in Bangladesh. 

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• ‘The Institutions of the Law of Scotland’ (1681): as Polemic

  26-Nov-2024

  Tom. P. S. Edwards

  University of Dundee

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• Law is on the Frontlines: The Weaponization of the Law in Exacerbating Anti-LGBTQ Sentiment in Uganda

  12-Nov-2024

  Luca Salama

  Currently pursuing an Undergraduate Degree in Law and International Relations (LLB) at the University of Edinburgh.

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• Assess the significance of Bell’s presentation of the absolute rights of individuals in §§ 2028–2057 of the Principles

  11-Nov-2024

  Shakile Holden

  The author is in his fourth year of his LLB studies at the University of Edinburgh. The author wishes to thank Dr John Macleod, Senior Lecturer in Private Law at the University of Edinburgh, for his inspiration and invaluable feedback. It is much appreciated! 

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• Update, adopted regulation! GI protection for craft and industrial products at EU level is on!

  10-Nov-2024

  Fikriye Doga Ulus

  Intellectual Property Law LLM candidate at the University of Edinburgh

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