Hector Lewis MacQueen (born 1956) is a

Scottish Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including: *Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland *Scottish English *Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...

academic, a senior scholar of

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and legal history, and a former member of the Scottish Law Commission. He is Professor of

Private Law Private law is that part of a civil law legal system which is part of the ''jus commune'' that involves relationships between individuals, such as the law of contracts and torts (as it is called in the common law), and the law of obligations ( ...

at the University of Edinburgh and a former Dean of its

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. 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 way. 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. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the

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for services to legal scholarship.

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Academics of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Living people Scottish lawyers 20th-century Scottish historians Scottish legal scholars Scots private law Place of birth missing (living people) Legal historians 1956 births Commanders of the Order of the British Empire 21st-century Scottish historians {{Scotland-law-bio-stub