Frankie McCarthy

Building Governance and Energy Efficiency: Mapping the Interdisciplinary Challenge

Improving the energy efficiency of multi-owned properties (MoPs)—commonly known as apartment or condominium buildings—is central to the achievement of European energy targets. However, little work to date has focused on how to facilitate retrofit in this context. Drawing on interdisciplinary Social Sciences and Humanities expertise in academia, policy and practice, this chapter posits that decision-making processes within MoPs might provide a key to the retrofit challenge. Existing theories or models of decision-making, applied in the MoP context, might help to explain how collective retrofit decisions are taken—or overlooked. Insights from case studies and practitioners are also key. Theories of change might then be employed to develop strategies to facilitate positive retrofit decisions. The chapter maps the issues and sets an agenda for further interdisciplinary research in this novel area.

The Rights of the Child in Scotland

The Scottish Government recently affirmed its commitment to making Scotland ‘the best place in the world to grow up’. Recognition of the human rights of children, particularly as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, is an integral part of achieving that goal. This paper provides an analysis of the extent to which children’s rights are currently recognised within Scots family law.

Essays in Conveyancing and Property Law : In Honour of Professor Robert Rennie

Professor Robert Rennie has been one of the most influential voices in Scots private law over the past thirty years. Highly respected as both an academic and a practitioner, his contribution to the development of property law and practice has been substantial and unique. This volume celebrates his retirement from the Chair of Conveyancing at the University of Glasgow in 2014 with a selection of essays written by his peers and colleagues from the judiciary, academia and legal practice.