Kenneth G C Reid

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, FBA,

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, WS, (born 1954) is a legal scholar and former law commissioner who holds the Chair of Scots Law at the

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Career

Kenneth Reid was educated at the independent

Loretto School Loretto School, founded in 1827, is an independent boarding and day school for boys and girls aged 0 to 18. The campus occupies in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. History The school was founded by the Reverend Thomas Langhorne in 1827. L ...

and

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where he studied history, then later at the

where he studied law. It is here where he first met

George Gretton George Lidderdale Gretton WS FRSE (born 1950) is a Scottish lawyer and academic and, from May 2006 to May 2011, was a Commissioner of the Scottish Law Commission. Career Gretton had his early education at West House School and King Edward's, B ...

, with whom he would collaborate with extensively during his academic career.K G C Reid, "The Law of Property in Scotland" (1996), Preface After working as a solicitor, he became a lecturer in law at the

in 1980 where he was subsequently appointed to the Chair of Property Law in 1994 and then the Chair of Scots Law in 2008. Reid's seminal work is his ''The Law of Property in Scotland'' published in ''The Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia'' volume 18 in 1993 and as a book in 1996. He has published widely on property law, as well as on trusts and succession. He has edited several books with Professor

Reinhard Zimmermann Reinhard Zimmermann (born 10 October 1952) is a German jurist and a director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. Since 2011 he has been the President of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Life Zim ...

, including a volume on the history of Scottish private law, a volume comparing Scottish and South African private law and several volumes on aspects of comparative succession law. In 1995, he was appointed to the

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as Commissioner to direct major reforms in property law. He served as a Commissioner until 2005 and was responsible for the reports which resulted in the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000, the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 and the Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004. In addition he authored the discussion papers which led ultimately to the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012. He was appointed

for his law reform work. In 2015 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the

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Bibliography

*Kenneth Reid, George L Gretton ''Conveyancing 2016'' and all editions since 1999 (Avizandum Publishing Ltd, 2017) *George L Gretton, Kenneth Reid ''Conveyancing (4th edn)'' (W Green, 2011) *Kenneth Reid ''The Law of Property in Scotland'' (Butterworths/Law Society of Scotland, 1996) *Kenneth Reid and Reinhard Zimmermann (eds) "A History of Private Law in Scotland" (2000)

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Scottish Law CommissionEdinburgh Law School
Living people Scottish legal scholars Scottish solicitors People educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Place of birth missing (living people) Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Academics of the University of Edinburgh Fellows of the British Academy 1954 births {{Scotland-law-bio-stub