David Eric Lothian Johnston KC (born 1961) is a Scottish legal expert, currently Honorary Professor of Law at the

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website of the Edinburgh Law School; read 17 July 2014.

Career

Johnston was an undergraduate at

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. He obtained a B.A. in 1982, a M.A. and Ph.D. in 1986 and an LL.D. in 2001 at the

St John's College, Cambridge St John's College, formally the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge, is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the House of Tudor, Tudor matriarch L ...

.Full CV of D. E. L. Johnston on the Website of Axiom Advocates; read 17 July 2014. 1985/86 he spent time as visiting scholar at the German institute for legal history in

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. He was appointed Junior Research Fellow at

between 1985 and 1989, after which he moved into legal practice, concentrating on public law, in particular, human rights, and commercial law. 1987 he also acted as visiting fellow of Michigan Law School. 1992 he spent in legal practice. He was involved in the litigation arising from the Lockerbie bombing. From 1993 to 1999 he returned to academia as Regius Professor of Civil Law and Fellow of Christ's College at the

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. Specializing in

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Scottish law Scots law () is the List of country legal systems, legal system of Scotland. It is a hybrid or mixed legal system containing Civil law (legal system), civil law and common law elements, that traces its roots to a number of different histori ...

and the

history of law History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some theorists categ ...

, he is the author of four books. In 1996 and 1998 he taught as senior visiting fellow at University of California at Berkeley Law School and 1999 a visiting professorship at the Université de Paris I. In 2000, he resumed legal practice in

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and reduced his teaching activities to an honorary professorship at the University of Edinburgh Law School. He held a visiting professorship at Osaka University Graduate Law School in 2000 and 2000 to 2003 in Paris. 2005, he was appointed

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on the website of Axiom Advocates; read 17 July 2014. He was elected a Fellow of the

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in 2016.

Selected writings

* On a Singular Book of Cervidius Scaevola (1987) * The Roman Law of Trusts, Cambridge University Press (1988) * Roman Law in Context, Oxford University Press (1999) * Prescription and Limitation (1999)

References

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* * (year of birth) 1961 births Living people Scottish legal professionals Fellows of Christ's College, Cambridge Regius Professors of Civil Law (University of Cambridge) Academics of the University of Edinburgh Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge 21st-century King's Counsel Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge {{Scotland-law-bio-stub