Joseph McGeachy Thomson FRSE (6 May 1948 – 12 May 2018[1]) was a Scottish lawyer and academic. He was Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow and a member of the Scottish Law Commission.
Joe Thomson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 May 1948 |
| Died | 12 May 2018 (aged 70) |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Awards | Regius Chair of Law, Glasgow, FRSE |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Legal scholar |
| Institutions | University of Strathclyde, University of Glasgow, Scottish Law Commission |
Early life
editThomson was born in Campbeltown and attended the independent Keil School in Dumbarton. He then studied at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated LLB in 1970[2] and was awarded the Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize as the outstanding LLB honours graduate.[3]
Career
editFollowing his graduation, Thomson was appointed lecturer at the University of Birmingham, moving in 1974 to King's College London.[2] In 1984, he became Professor of Law at the University of Strathclyde, and in 1991 was appointed to the Regius Chair in Law at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow.[4] He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1996,[5] and was President of the Society of Public Teachers of Law (now the Society of Legal Scholars) in 2000–2001.[6] He was appointed to a five-year term on the Scottish Law Commission in 2000, and received a further four-year term in 2005, at which point he resigned from the Glasgow Chair. He was formerly editor of the Juridical Review,[5] the oldest Scottish legal journal.
Publications
edit- Family Law in Scotland, 1987, 6th ed. 2011 ISBN 978-1847665607
- Delictual Liability, 1994, 4th ed. 2009 ISBN 978-1847663160
- Contract Law in Scotland (with Hector MacQueen), 2000, 3rd ed. 2012 ISBN 978-1847661630
- Scots Private Law, 2006 ISBN 978-0414016569
- Green's Annotated Acts: Damages (Scotland) Act 2011, 2012 ISBN 978-0414018877
References
edit- ^ Professor Joseph "Joe" Thomson
- ^ a b "Joe Thomson". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
- ^ "Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize Scholarship". Archived from the original on 14 April 2008. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ^ "Joe Thomson" (PDF). University of Aberdeen. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
- ^ a b "Prof Joseph Thomson, FRSE". Retrieved 12 April 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Society of Legal Scholars (2012). Directory of Members, 2011/12. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. ix.
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