Michael Randall

I am a Senior Teaching Fellow. I am currently the Director of Undergraduate programmes. I have previously been the Senior Tutor (Director of Student Wellbeing) and 4th year honours coordinator. At faculty level I was also the Associate Dean for Student Experience (2019-2022).

One of my primary research interests is legal education, building on my experience in pastoral care roles and engagement with methods of assessment to improve the student experience. I designed the Third Year Reflective Report module on the new LLB curriculum. I am a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and was the co-organiser of the 2025 Association of Law Teachers’ Annual conference.

I am the module coordinator for Law, Film & Popular Culture and introduced the Honours module of Law in the Context of Contemporary Culture. My research in this field examines the interactions between law and cultural mediums and the impact on public perceptions of law and justice.

My PhD thesis concerned a European Commission Proposal to introduce a tax on financial transactions, using it as a case study to assess legal theories of integration. My interests in this field concern regulating behaviour in the financial sector through tax policy. I am the module coordinator for Financial Regulation & Compliance and Financial Crime & Sanctions at PGT level. I am also the coordinator for Banking Law as a third-year elective option.

Between 2016-2019 I was the programme director for the LLM Law & Finance. I was also the module coordinator for the English Law of Tort module.

Prior to arriving at Strathclyde in 2016 I completed a Law and French LLB (2007-2011) and European Legal Studies LLM (2011-2012) - both at Cardiff University. This included an Erasmus year at the Université Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France (2009-10) during my undergraduate degree where I completed the 3rd Year French Public Law Licence en Droit (60 ECTS). I subsequently completed my PhD at the University of Leeds (2012-2016).

Publications

Randall M, 'COVID Challenges and Tomorrow's Lawyers' (2021) 66(5) Journal of the Law Society of Scotland 18-19

Randall M, ‘Brexit and Financial Services: What Comes Next?’ (2018) 22(1) Edinburgh Law Review 149-155

Randall M and Lu L ‘Capping of Bankers’ Bonuses? Case C-507/13 UK v Parliament and Council’ (2015) 42(4) Legal Issues of Economic Integration 383-400

Randall M, ‘Case C-209/13, UK v. Council: Enhanced Cooperation and the FTT’ (2014) 41(4) Legal Issues of Economic Integration 407-418

Others

'Introducing Group Assessment Via Podcast: A Case Study of Law and Film at the University of Strathclyde' Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference 2023, University of Westminster

'Managing Undergraduate Disserations: A Case Study from Strathclyde Law School' Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference 2023, University of Westminster

'Initial Challenges and Reflections on AI in Higher Education in Law' April 2023 Strathclyde Law Blog: https://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/lawschool/blog/initialreflectionsonthechallengesofaiinhighereducationinlaw/

'Tackling Difficult Issues For The Law of Negligence and Rugby: Czernuszka v King' March 2023 Strathclyde Law Blog: https://www.strath.ac.uk/humanities/lawschool/blog/tacklingdifficultissuesforthelawofnegligenceandrugbyczernuszkavking/

‘Google Tax Deal Sparks Frustration as UK MPs Struggle With Information Void’ Friday 26 February 2016 on The Conversation UK: https://theconversation.com/google-tax-deal-sparks-frustration-as-uk-mps-struggle-with-information-void-55413

‘The ‘Tampon Tax’: A UK and EU Standstill’ Wednesday 28 October 2015 on EU Law Analysis: http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/the-tampon-tax-uk-and-eu-standstill.html

‘Why It’s So Hard to Lift the Tampon Tax’ Wednesday 28 October 2015 on The Conversation UK: http://theconversation.com/why-its-so-hard-to-lift-the-tampon-tax-49913

‘The EU’s Financial Transaction Tax as an Own Resource’ (Fairtax, ‘Options for EU Tax as Own Resource’, Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Vienna, 19 September 2016) http://www.org.umu.se/fairtax/english/research-groups/wp8/options-for-an-eu-tax-as-an-eu-own-resource/