Professor Colin Munro

Emeritus Professor of Consitutional Law

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2047

Email: Colin.Munro@ed.ac.uk

Professor Colin Munro was Professor of Constitutional Law from 1990 to 2009, when he relinquished full-time employment and became Professor Emeritus. He was a Dean of the Faculty of Law in the 1990s. He previously taught at the Universities of Birmingham, Durham, Essex and Manchester, where he was Professor of Law from 1985 to 1990. Colin Munro's principal interests are in constitutional and administrative law, human rights, media law, and aspects of criminal justice and legal philosophy. He serves as a member of the Editorial Committee of the journal Public Law. Amongst other activities, he is an occasional consultant on parliamentary and other matters, and a contributor to newspapers and broadcasting, and since 2009 teaches on a part-time basis in Great Britain, at the Institute of Law in Jersey, and in the University of Hong Kong.

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Professor Sir Alexander McCall Smith

Emeritus Professor of Medical Law

CBE, LLB, PhD, FRSE

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2008

Email: law@ed.ac.uk

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Professor Sir Alexander McCall Smith's main areas of legal interest are in the fields of medical law and criminal law. Alexander McCall Smith was the co-author (with Professor Mason) of a major textbook on law and medicine. He is also the author of several books on criminal law, including a book on the criminal law of Botswana. He is interested in legal and philosophical aspects of responsibility, and has co-edited a book on the duty to rescue and a book on forensic aspects of sleep disorder.

Alexander McCall Smith is also a best-selling author of novels, short stories, and children's books.

In 2006, Alexander McCall Smith received the Alumnus of the Year Award from the University of Edinburgh. In 2007, he was awarded a CBE. In this same year, Alexander McCall Smith was also awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by the University of Edinburgh.

In 2024, Alexander McCall Smith was honoured as Knight Bachelor in the King's New Years Honours List 2024. 

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Professor William W. McBryde

Emeritus Professor of Commercial Law

LLB, PhD, LLD, FRSE

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2008

Email: law@ed.ac.uk

Professor of Commercial Law, Edinburgh University, 1999-2005, Emeritus Professor, since 2005;

Apprentice and Assistant, Morton, Smart, Macdonald & Milligan, WS, Edinburgh, 1967-70;

Court Procurator, Biggart, Lumsden & Co., Glasgow, 1970-72;

Lecturer in Private Law, Glasgow University, 1972-76;

Member, Scottish Law Commission Working Party on Contract Law, 1975-2000;

Senior Lecturer in Private Law, Aberdeen University, 1976-87;

Professor of Scots Law, Dundee University, 1987-99 (Deputy and Vice Principal, 1991-94);

Visiting Professor, L'Université de Paris V, 2000-05;

Van der Grinten Professor of Commercial Law, University of Nijmegen, 2002-07.

Specialist Parliamentary Adviser to House of Lords Select Committee on the European Communities, 1980-83;

Member: Scottish Consumer Council, 1984-87, Scottish Advisory Committee on Arbitration, since 1986, Member, DTI Working Party on Rights in Security over Moveables, since 1994, Member, International Working Group on Principles of Insolvency Law, since 2000;

Director, Scottish Universities’ Law Institute, 1989-95;

Honorary Sheriff, Tayside, Central and Fife, at Dundee, since 1991.

Recreations: walking; photography.

 

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Professor David Johnston KC

Honorary Professor

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2008

Email: law@ed.ac.uk

David Johnston is a QC who practises at the Scottish Bar mainly in public law, including human rights, and commercial law. He was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Cambridge University from 1993 to 1999, where he taught Roman law and various topics within legal history and comparative law. Shortly after returning to full-time practice in Edinburgh, he was appointed an honorary professor at Edinburgh University. 

In addition to articles mainly on Roman law, legal history and Scots law, he has written four books: On a Singular Book of Cervidius Scaevola (Berlin, 1987); The Roman Law of Trusts (Oxford, 1988); Roman Law in Context  (Cambridge, 1999); and Prescription and Limitation (Edinburgh, 1999). A second edition of Prescription and Limitation should be ready within a couple of years.

At the Bar, leading cases in which he has been involved have concerned judicial review of various Acts of the Scottish Parliament; the state’s obligation under article 2 of the European Convention to hold an inquiry into a suspicious death; the claim by Pan Am Airways for damages arising from the Lockerbie bombing; cases on taxing insurance companies and taxing employment-related benefits; and a number of cases dealing with prescription and limitation.

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Professor Sir David Edward

Emeritus Professor

KCMG, QC, LLD, Drhc, FRSE

Tel: +44 (0) 131 225 7153

Email: david.edward@dileas.net

Professor Sir David Edward is Professor Emeritus at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh. Awarded KCMG, 2004; CMG, 1981. Admitted Advocate, 1962; QC (Scotland), 1974; Judge of the Court of First Instance, 1989-92; Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Communities, 1992-2004. Please see the Judge David Edward Oral History site at the University of Denver, Sturm College of Law, for further information about Sir David's life and career, including streaming video of biographical interviews.

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Dr John Crichton

Honorary Professor

BMedSci, BMBS, PhD, MRCPsych

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2008

Email: law@ed.ac.uk

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Dr John Crichton is an Honorary Professor at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh, and consultant forensic psychiatrist at the Orchard Clinic, Royal Edinburgh Hospital, Scotland’s first medium secure unit.

After studying psychology and medicine at Nottingham University, John Crichton completed initial training in Psychiatry at Cambridge. At the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, he completed a PhD investigating the management of violence and other challenging behaviour involving psychiatric inpatients.

John Crichton has published over 40 peer reviewed papers and book chapters, and edited the book Psychiatric Patient Violence: Risk and Response. He has held the post of Medical Director of the Forensic Network and State Hospitals’ Board for Scotland.

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Professor Robert Black

Emeritus Professor of Scots Law

QC, FRSA, FRSE, FFCS, FHEA

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2008

Email: law@ed.ac.uk

Robert Black has been Professor of Scots Law in the University since January 1981, having previously been in practice at the Bar. For various periods between 1983 and 1999 he served as Head of the Department of Scots (later Private) Law. He has been an Advocate since 1972, a QC since 1987 and a member of every Dean's Council from 1984 to 2003. From 1987 to 1996 he was General Editor of The Laws of Scotland: Stair Memorial Encyclopaedia (25 volumes), having previously acted for six years as deputy to the late Sir Thomas Smith QC. From 1981 to 1994 he served as a temporary sheriff. Over the years Robert Black has acted as the Law Society of Scotland's examiner in Evidence and as the examiner in Civil and Criminal Procedure and Pleading for solicitors seeking extended rights of audience, and as the Faculty of Advocates' examiner in Private Law.

He has taken a close interest in the Lockerbie affair since 1993, not least because he was born and brought up in the town, and has published a substantial number of articles on the topic in the United Kingdom and overseas. Professor Robert Black is often referred to as the architect of the Lockerbie trial at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands: see http://lockerbiecase.blogspot.com/, http://web.archive.org/web/20020524233852/ and http://www.thelockerbietrial.com/

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Mr Alan Barr

Honorary Fellow

Tel: +44 (0)131 650 2008

Email: alan.barr@ed.ac.uk

Alan Barr was formerly Director of the Law School's Legal Practice Unit and is now an Honorary Fellow in the School. His research interests include all forms of taxation, particularly in the field of tax planning, wills and succession, with an emphasis on practical implications and drafting; and practical legal education. He has taught previously at the University of Glasgow and briefly at the Universities of Botswana and Lesotho on post-qualifying legal education. He contributes regular articles to the Journal of the Law Society of Scotland and other legal journals. He has been a part-time consultant for the leading Edinburgh law firm, Brodies LLP, since 1997.

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