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 spent 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:
Law of England and Wales
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 / Comparative Law
Claiming a Promised Inheritance: A Comparative Study (Braun, 2022)
Constitutional Bricolage: Thailand’s Sacred Monarchy vs. The Rule of Law (Mérieau, 2021)
Law and Religion in Ireland, 1530-1970 (ed Howlin & Costello, 2021)
Fintech Regulation in China (Huang, 2021)
EU Law
EMU Integration and Member States’ Constitutions (ed Griller & Lentsch, 2021)
Experimentalist Competition Law and the Regulation of Markets (Svetiev, 2020)
International Law and Human Rights
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)
Legal Tabling Only
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)
Overkill or Under-kill (Paice, 2022)
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)
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)

Other Social Sciences
I index in many areas across the social sciences.
Books indexed:
Paradoxes of Migration in Tajikistan: Locating the Good Life (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)

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)

History, Literature and the Arts
I am widely read, particularly in English literature, and have a general interest in history.
Books indexed:
What are Museums For? (Sleigh, 2024)
What is History For? (Gildea, 2024)
The Cambridge Companion to William Morris (ed Waithe, 2023)
Race, Nation and Cultural Power in Film Adaptation (Roberts, 2022)
Overkill or Under-kill (Paice, 2022)
The Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press, Volume 1 (ed Brownlees, 2022)
Modernist Intimacies (ed Högberg, 2021)
Cross-Channel Modernisms (ed Davison, Ryan & Goldman, 2020)
(plus works on legal history – see under Law above)

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)
Your Book in Bookstores (Young/Alliance of Independent Authors, 2021)

Indexes in Other Subjects
I am very happy to take on projects in other areas where I feel I can do justice to the subject matter and the author’s treatment of it.
Other books indexed:
What are the Olympics For? (Boykoff, 2024)
Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Liverpool (Parsons, 2022)
Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence (McQuillan, 2022)