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Regius Chair of Law
University of Glasgow
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Incumbent
James Chalmers

since 2012
Precursor Chair of Law
Formation 1713
Founder Queen Anne
First holder William Forbes
Website www.law.gla.ac.uk

The Regius Chair of Law at the University of Glasgow was founded in December 1713 with an endowment by Queen Anne. (Its foundation is sometimes incorrectly dated to 1712, due to an error in Glasgow's Munimenta, published in 1854. ) It is one of twelve Regius Professorships within the University of Glasgow. The first holder of the chair, William Forbes, was appointed in 1714. The current holder, James Chalmers, was appointed in 2012.

Regius Professors of Law

  • William Forbes MA (1714)
  • William Cross, Advocate (1746)
  • Hercules Lindsay LLD (1750)
  • John Millar, advocate (1761)
  • Robert Davidson LLD (1801)
  • Allan Alexander Wellwood Maconochie LLD (1842)
  • George Skene, Advocate (1855)
  • Robert Berry MA LLD (1867)
  • Alexander Moody Stuart LLD (1887)
  • William Gloag KC BA LLD (1905)
  • Andrew Dewar Gibb MBE QC MA LLD (1934)
  • David Maxwell Walker CBE QC MA PhD LLD FRSE FBA (1958)
  • Joe Thomson LLB FRSE (1991)
  • James Chalmers LLB LLM Dip LP (2012)
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