Professor Hector MacQueen FBA

Law Private Law (Contract, Restitution, Tort) Legal History Intellectual Property and Information Law Scots Law Private Law (Property, Equity, Trusts) Private Law (Family, Persons)
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2006
Subjects
Law

Current post

Professor of Private Law, University of Edinburgh

Past appointments

Utrecht University Visiting Professor

1997 -

University of Edinburgh Professor of Private Law, on leave as a Scottish Law Commissioner until April 2018

1994 -

Cornell University Visiting Professor

1991 -

University of Edinburgh Lecturer to Reader

1979 - 1994

Publications

Common Law and Feudal Society in Mediaval Scotland 1993

Copyright, Competition and Industrial Design 1995 (2nd edition)

Contract Law in Scotland 2000

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Professor Elisabeth van Houts FBA

European history, 900-1300: Latin historiography, biographical writing and memorial traditions; Anglo-Continental socio-political relations and cultural exchange; the role of women and gender.

Elisabeth van Houts FBA

Professor Cecilia Trifogli FBA

The Medieval Latin reception of Aristotle's philosophy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, especially natural philosophy, rational psychology, and metaphysics; critical editions of Medieval Latin philosophical texts

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