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Professor MacQueen will be speaking on his new book, Law and Legal Consciousness in Medieval Scotland. This book explores the rise of a Scottish common law from the twelfth century on despite the absence until around 1500 of a secular legal profession. Key stimuli were the activity of church courts and canon lawyers in Scotland, coupled with the example provided by neighbouring England’s common law. The laity’s legal consciousness arose from exposure to law by way of constant participation in legal processes in court and daily transactions. This experience enabled some to become judges, pleaders in court and transactional lawyers and lay the foundations for an emergent professional group by the end of the medieval period.
Hector MacQueen was a member of the Edinburgh Law School staff from 1979 to 2021. He was appointed to the Chair of Private Law in 1994 and was Dean of the Law School 1999-2003. From January 2010 to September 2017, he served full time as a Scottish Law Commissioner. Professor MacQueen previously held visiting appointments at Cornell University in the USA, the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, and Stetson University College of Law. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh since 1995 and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2006. Professor MacQueen was President of the Society of Legal Scholars 2012-2013 and Vice-President (Humanities) of the RSE 2008-2011.
- Speaker
- Professor Hector MacQueen
- Hosted by
- School of Law
- Venue
- Hybrid Event (On-Campus Venue Taylor Building C11)
- Contact
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Event is free and open to all. For online access to the event please contact law-research@abdn.ac.uk