Hector MacQueen

Hector Lewis MacQueen CBE FBA FRSE (born 1956) is a Scottish academic, a senior scholar of Scots law and legal history, and member of the Scottish Law Commission. He is Professor of Private Law at the University of Edinburgh[1] and a former Dean of its Faculty of Law. He is author, co-author and editor of a large number books on Scottish law and legal history, including the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th editions of the standard text Gloag & Henderson Law of Scotland, and is former Literary Director of the Stair Society. Stetson University College of Law, Florida, appointed him Distinguished International Professor 2007–2009, and he taught European Copyright Law there. As an historian, he has a particular interest in the law and society of medieval Carrick and Galloway. He is currently a member of the International Advisory Group for the JKLH-funded project, 'The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093-1286'. In 1995 he became a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh.[2]

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2019 Birthday Honours for services to legal scholarship.[3]

Select bibliography
  • MacQueen, Hector (8 June 1993). Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 312p. ISBN 0-7486-0416-2.
  • MacQueen, Hector (1 September 1995). Copyright, Competition and Industrial Design, 2nd edn. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 111p. ISBN 0-7486-0733-1.
  • MacQueen, Hector (30 November 1995). (ed.) The Laws of Scotland: Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia (Vol. 15). Scotland: Butterworths Law (Scotland). pp. 502p. ISBN 0-406-23700-X.
  • MacQueen, Hector (26 September 2006). Studying Scots Law, 3rd revised edn. UK: Tottel Publishing. pp. 248p. ISBN 1-84592-359-6.
  • MacQueen, Hector (1 November 2004). Unjustified Enrichment (Law Basics). UK: Thomson/W Green. ISBN 978-0-414-01597-5.
  • MacQueen, Hector; Joe Thomson (August 2005). Contract Law in Scotland. UK: Tottel Publishing. pp. 315p. ISBN 1-84592-147-X.
  • MacQueen, Hector; Charlotte Waelde; Graeme Laurie (September 2007). Contemporary Intellectual Property: Law and Policy (Oxford Core Texts). UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 512p. ISBN 0-19-926339-6.

References
  1. Adams, Lucy; Murray Ritchie (23 January 2004). "Lord advocate 'crossed line into politics'; Colin Boyd accused of compromising independence". Glasgow Herald. p. 6. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
  2. "Professor Hector Lewis MacQueen FBA FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
  3. "No. 62666". The London Gazette (Supplement). 8 June 2019. p. B9.



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