Professor Andrew Simpson

Professor Andrew Simpson
Professor Andrew Simpson
Professor Andrew Simpson

LLB Hons, LLM (Aberd.), PhD (Cantab.)

Chair in Scots Private Law

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Email Address
andrew.simpson1@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272435
School/Department
School of Law

Biography

Andrew Simpson is Professor in Scots Private Law at the University of Aberdeen. He is a graduate of the Universities of Aberdeen and Cambridge. Following completion of his doctoral studies, Professor Simpson taught at Aberdeen University for ten years prior to becoming Professor in Scottish Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. Subsequently, he returned to the University of Aberdeen to take up a Chair in Scots Private Law. He has also been a visiting lecturer in comparative law at the Faculty of Law in the University of Bergen and at the University of Agder. In 2022, he was a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies, hosted by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo, participating in the project 'Social Governance through Legislation' (Social Governance Through Legislation | CAS (cas-nor.no)). 

Professor Simpson specialises in legal history, comparative law and private law. As a legal historian, Professor Simpson is particularly interested in medieval and early modern Scots law. He has a particular interest in the medieval traditions of law that informed the work of the College of Justice in the sixteenth century, and in the ways in which lawyers conceptualised the authority of those traditions. He is also interested in the relationship between the institution of the College of Justice and Scottish state formation in this period.

In terms of comparative law, Professor Simpson has participated in teaching and research in relation to models of legal cultural comparison, and he is an Associate Member of the Research Group for Legal Culture at Bergen Law Faculty. He is interested in the ways in which studies into comparative law can inform the development of Private Law in particular. He is particularly keen to explore systems sometimes seen as peripheral or marginal to the ‘great’ traditions of the world, for the light they may shed on commonly-held assumptions about how law ought to be handled. 

Publications

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  • 'Cleare as is the Summers Sunne'? Legal Learning, Parliamentary Power and Scottish Perspectives on the English Royal Succession

    Simpson, A.
    Morality and Responsibility of Rulers: European and Chinese Origins of the Rule of Law as Justice for World Order. Carty, A., Nijman, J. (eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 93-113, 22 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Scottish Legal History: Volume 1: 1000-1707

    Simpson, A. R. C., Wilson, A. L. M.
    Vol. 1, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. 408 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • An Introduction to Scottish Legal Culture

    Simpson, A. R. C.
    Comparing Legal Cultures. Koch, S., Skodvin, K., Sunde, J. (eds.). Fagbokforlaget, pp. 87-130, 44 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Book Review of John W Cairns, 'Selected Essays on Scots Law, Volumes 1-2'

    Simpson, A. R. C.
    Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 466-468
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Procedures for Dealing with Robbery in Scotland before 1400

    Simpson, A. R. C.
    Continuity, Change and Pragmatism in the Law: Essays in Memory of Professor Angelo Forte. Simpson, A. R., Styles, S. C., West, E., Wilson, A. L. (eds.). Aberdeen University Press, pp. 95-149, 55 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Review Article: Alice Taylor, The Shape of the State in Medieval Scotland, 1124-1290, Oxford University Press, 2016, xxiii + 525 pp. Hbk £85 ISBN 9780198749202

    Simpson, A. R.
    Comparative Legal History, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 215-232
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Legislation and authority in early-modern Scotland

    Simpson, A. R. C.
    Law and Authority in British Legal History, 1200-1900. Godfrey, M. (ed.). Cambridge University Press, pp. 85-119, 35 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Continuity, Change and Pragmatism in the Law: Essays in Memory of Professor Angelo Forte

    Simpson, A. R. C. (ed.), Styles, S. C. (ed.), West, E. (ed.), Wilson, A. L. M. (ed.)
    Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Foreword: Common Law and Feudal Society in Scholarship since 1993

    Simpson, A. R. C.
    Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland. MacQueen, H. (ed.). Classic edition. Edinburgh University Press, pp. xxix-lxi, 32 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Counsel and the Crown: History, Law and Politics in the Thought of David Chalmers of Ormond

    Simpson, A. R. C.
    Journal of Legal History, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 3-42
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • The Aberdeen Burgh Records Database

    Armstrong, J., Convery, S., Frankot, E. B. I., Macdonald, A. J., MacKillop, A., Simpson, A. R. C., Wilson, A. L. M.
    Non-textual Forms: Data Sets and Databases
  • Power, Reason and Equity: Two Juristic Accounts of Royal Authority in Sixteenth-Century Scotland

    Simpson, A. R. C.
    Constitutionalism Before 1789: Constitutional arrangements from the High middle Ages to the French Revolution. Sunde, J. (ed.). Pax Forlag A/S, pp. 128-146; 233-241, 28 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Book Review of Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebbings (eds), 'Making Legal History: Approaches and Methodologies'

    Simpson, A. R. C.
    Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 272-274
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Book Review of AM Godfrey's, 'Civil Justice in Renaissance Scotland.The Origins of a Central Court'

    Simpson, A. R. C.
    Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 497-500
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles
  • Positive Prescription of Moveables in Scots Law

    Simpson, A. R. C.
    Edinburgh Law Review, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 445-476
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Learning, Honour and Patronage: The Career of Andrew McDouall, Lord Bankton 1746-60

    Simpson, A.
    Miscellany Six. McQueen, H. L. (ed.). Stair Society, pp. 121-219, 99 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
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