Hector L MacqueenHector MacQueen is Emeritus Professor of Private Law at the University of Edinburgh Law School, having previously been a member of staff from 1979 to 2021. He has worked on various aspects of Scottish legal history, especially in the medieval period,where his best-known work is Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland (1993; reissued 2016). He also writes about 'legal nationalism' in Scotland and on the history of copyright. Hector is currently Vice-President of the Stair Society, having previously been its Literary Director 1999-2017. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, having been Vice-President (Humanities) of the latter 2008-2011. He is a Vice-President of the Scottish Text Society. He was awarded a CBE in the 2019 Birthday Honours list. Alan and Hector have previously co-authored a number of published articles, focussed mainly on mid-fifteenth century litigation. Read More Read Less