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 Lionel Smith FBA

Lionel Smith’s latest book, 'The Law of Loyalty', was published by OUP in 2023. He is the author of 'The Law of Tracing' (OUP 1997) and a co-author of 'Waters’ Law of Trusts' in Canada, 5th edn (Carswell 2021).

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Professor Trevor Allan FBA

Legal and constitutional theory, particularly the moral ideal of the rule of law; public law and civil liberties, especially the common law constitution of the United Kingdom (common law constitutionalism)

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Professor David Garland FBA

Social theory; the sociology of punishment and control; historical and comparative analysis of legal institutions; the history and sociology of welfare states; sociology of law; criminological theory

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