Professor Brodie is an authority on Labour Law and Delict. His main research interests are in the area of employment contract and the history of Labour Law and in the area of Delict, the analysis of negligence.

Professor Douglas Brodie is currently the Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde.

Prior to Strathclyde, he was Head of the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Stirling from 2011 to 2014. He was Professor of Employment Law at the University of Edinburgh, and served as Dean from 2007 to 2011.

He has published widely in these areas and amongst his publications are: A History of British Labour Law (2003),The Employment Contract (2005), The Contract of Employment (2008) and Enterprise Liability and the Common Law (2010).