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

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Dauvit Broun FBA

Medieval Scottish history

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Professor James Gordley FBA

The historical development of the civil law and its influence on the common law; the reappraisal of modern private law through the use of comparative and historical methods

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Professor John Hudson FBA

Medieval legal history; medieval historical writing; nineteenth-century scholarship on legal history, especially the work of F W Maitland

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