About Edinburgh Legal Education Trust
The Edinburgh Legal Education Trust (ELET)is a charity (SC024471) established within the University of Edinburgh’s Law School in 1996 and dedicated to supporting legal education in Scotland, particularly in relation to Scottish private law.
ELET's purpose
Supporting research students
Supporting research students
Supporting research students
The charity supports students to complete research degrees on Scottish private law; publishes contemporary and historic Scottish legal texts; sponsors academic conferences; purchases books and other materials for Edinburgh University Law Library; and supports legal education and research in a variety of other ways.
The main income of ELET derives from CPD (Continuing Professional Development) seminars which are organised on behalf of ELET by Edinburgh Law Seminars.
Offering scholarships
Supporting research students
Supporting research students
Every year ELET offers one or more scholarships for the LLM by Research at Edinburgh University. Further funding may then be available for those wishing to continue on to the degree of PhD.
In addition, scholarships are available for undergraduates to carry out legal research during the summer vacation.
Here’s where you can find full details of the scholarship programme.
Publishing law books
Supporting research students
Publishing law books
ELET also publishes books, many of which are written by ELET scholars. There are two main series:
Studies in Scots Law (a series of detailed studies of the modern law, typically based on PhD theses) and Old Studies in Scots Law (facsimile reprints of works of the institutional writers and other historic texts)
Here’s where you can find full details of the publishing programme. Many of the books can be downloaded free of charge.