About the lecture
Has there ever really been a revolution in private law, never mind the law of obligations? This lecture addresses that question by considering the relationship between law and revolution in general.
If the development of private law can be characterised as revolutionary at any point, then the revolutionaries included those who wrote about law in a systematic manner, the codifiers whose work followed on from political revolutions, and the merchants whose business needs otherwise left the law behind.
About the speaker
Professor Hector MacQueen has been a member of the Edinburgh Law School staff since 1979, having also taken his LLB and PhD at Edinburgh. Appointed to the Chair of Private Law in 1994, he was Dean of the Law School (1999–2003), and Dean of Research and Deputy Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science in the University (2004–08). He was on leave of absence from January 2010 to September 2017, having taken up an appointment as a Scottish Law Commissioner and returned to the University full time in April 2018.
