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LLB Hons, LLM (Aberd.), PhD (Cantab.)
Chair in Scots Private Law
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- School of Law
Biography
Andrew Simpson is Professor in Scots Private Law at the University of Aberdeen. He is a graduate of the Universities of Aberdeen and Cambridge. Following completion of his doctoral studies, Professor Simpson taught at Aberdeen University for ten years prior to becoming Professor in Scottish Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. Subsequently, he returned to the University of Aberdeen to take up a Chair in Scots Private Law. He has also been a visiting lecturer in comparative law at the Faculty of Law in the University of Bergen and at the University of Agder. In 2022, he was a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies, hosted by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo, participating in the project 'Social Governance through Legislation' (Social Governance Through Legislation | CAS (cas-nor.no)).
Professor Simpson specialises in legal history, comparative law and private law. As a legal historian, Professor Simpson is particularly interested in medieval and early modern Scots law. He has a particular interest in the medieval traditions of law that informed the work of the College of Justice in the sixteenth century, and in the ways in which lawyers conceptualised the authority of those traditions. He is also interested in the relationship between the institution of the College of Justice and Scottish state formation in this period.
In terms of comparative law, Professor Simpson has participated in teaching and research in relation to models of legal cultural comparison, and he is an Associate Member of the Research Group for Legal Culture at Bergen Law Faculty. He is interested in the ways in which studies into comparative law can inform the development of Private Law in particular. He is particularly keen to explore systems sometimes seen as peripheral or marginal to the ‘great’ traditions of the world, for the light they may shed on commonly-held assumptions about how law ought to be handled.
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'Cleare as is the Summers Sunne'? Legal Learning, Parliamentary Power and Scottish Perspectives on the English Royal Succession
Morality and Responsibility of Rulers: European and Chinese Origins of the Rule of Law as Justice for World Order. Carty, A., Nijman, J. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 93-113, 22 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersScottish Legal History: Volume 1: 1000-1707
Vol. 1, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. 408 pagesBooks and Reports: BooksAn Introduction to Scottish Legal Culture
Comparing Legal Cultures. Koch, S., Skodvin, K., Sunde, J. (eds.). Fagbokforlaget, pp. 87-130, 44 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersBook Review of John W Cairns, 'Selected Essays on Scots Law, Volumes 1-2'
Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 466-468Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2017.0450
Procedures for Dealing with Robbery in Scotland before 1400
Continuity, Change and Pragmatism in the Law: Essays in Memory of Professor Angelo Forte. Simpson, A. R., Styles, S. C., West, E., Wilson, A. L. (eds.). Aberdeen University Press, pp. 95-149, 55 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersReview Article: Alice Taylor, The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290, Oxford University Press, 2016, xxiii + 525 pp. Hbk £85 ISBN 9780198749202
Comparative Legal History, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 215-232Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677X.2016.1243904
Legislation and authority in early-modern Scotland
Law and Authority in British Legal History, 1200-1900. Godfrey, M. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 85-119, 35 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersContinuity, Change and Pragmatism in the Law: Essays in Memory of Professor Angelo Forte
Aberdeen University Press, AberdeenBooks and Reports: BooksForeword: Common Law and Feudal Society in Scholarship since 1993
Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland. MacQueen, H. (ed.). Classic edition. Edinburgh University Press, pp. xxix-lxi, 32 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersCounsel and the Crown: History, Law and Politics in the Thought of David Chalmers of Ormond
Journal of Legal History, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 3-42Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01440365.2015.1007900
The Aberdeen Burgh Records Database
Non-textual Forms: Data Sets and DatabasesPower, Reason and Equity: Two Juristic Accounts of Royal Authority in Sixteenth-Century Scotland
Constitutionalism Before 1789: Constitutional arrangements from the High middle Ages to the French Revolution. Sunde, J. (ed.). Pax Forlag A/S, pp. 128-146; 233-241, 28 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: ChaptersBook Review of Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebbings (eds), 'Making Legal History: Approaches and Methodologies'
Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 272-274Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2013.0162
Book Review of AM Godfrey's, 'Civil Justice in Renaissance Scotland.The Origins of a Central Court'
Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 497-500Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/elr.2011.0070
Positive Prescription of Moveables in Scots Law
Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 445-476Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/E1364980909000584
Learning, Honour and Patronage: The Career of Andrew McDouall, Lord Bankton 1746-60
Miscellany Six. McQueen, H. L. (ed.). Stair Society, pp. 121-219, 99 pagesChapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters