Marie McClinton, M.A.(Hons.), LL.B.
Location: Glasgow
Membership Grade: Professional Member
Contact Info
General Experience
Accredited indexer with 25 years’ indexing experience, and a graduate in classics and law.
I specialize in indexing books, journals, etc. in classics, all areas of law, and the related social sciences of government, politics, and economics.
I indexed the journal Family Law (Jordan Publishing) for over eleven years, and my indexing was commended by the judging panel of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) when this journal won the Legal Journals Award in 2017.
All enquiries, from authors, editors, publishers or other organizations, are welcome.
Subjects
-Latin and classical Greek language and literature
-Greek, Roman and medieval history, art and archaeology
-Renaissance studies
-Legal systems (the structure of the judicial system, the sources in literature of the law, law reform, and legal research)
-Criminal law
-Jurisprudence
-Evidence
-Obligations (the principles applicable to contracts and those relating to civil liability for wrongs)
-Family law
-Property, trusts and succession
-Conveyancing
-Administrative law
-Local government law
-Environmental law
-Public law (the constitution of the European Union and the United Kingdom, civil liberties and the European Convention on Human Rights)
-European law
-International law
-Employment law
-Mercantile law
-Company law
-Tax law
…and
-Civil (Roman) law
-Scottish political, social, and economic history
Collecting and arranging into tables the statutes, statutory instruments, European legislation (treaties, directives and regulations), international conventions, and cases cited in the text.
Other skills
Embedded Indexing
-Embedding of index entries into Microsoft Word documents.
-Anchoring of index entries to Adobe PDF documents.
Recent indexes include
2. The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 (Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society), Ashley T. Rubin, Cambridge University Press, 2021.
3. Evidential Legal Reasoning: Crossing Civil Law and Common Law Traditions, edited by Jordi Ferrer Beltrán and Carmen Vázquez, Cambridge University Press, 2022.
4. The Chinese Ideology: Economic Confrontation in the Current World, Tony Kosuge, Focalpoint Press, 2023.
