Hector Lewis MacQueen (born 1956) is a Scottish academic, a senior scholar of

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and

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

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at the

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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.

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, 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

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(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) British legal historians 1956 births Commanders of the Order of the British Empire 21st-century Scottish historians {{Scotland-law-bio-stub