Joe Thomson
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Early life
Thomson 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
Following 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
- Family Law in Scotland, 1987, 6th ed. 2011 Template:ISBN
- Delictual Liability, 1994, 4th ed. 2009 Template:ISBN
- Contract Law in Scotland (with Hector MacQueen), 2000, 3rd ed. 2012 Template:ISBN
- Scots Private Law, 2006 Template:ISBN
- Green's Annotated Acts: Damages (Scotland) Act 2011, 2012 Template:ISBN
References
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- ^ Professor Joseph "Joe" Thomson
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Joe Thomson". University of Glasgow. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize Scholarship". Archived from the original on 14 April 2008. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Joe Thomson" (PDF). University of Aberdeen. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 June 2011. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Prof Joseph Thomson, FRSE". Retrieved 12 April 2012.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Society of Legal Scholars (2012). Directory of Members, 2011/12. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. ix.
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