Andrew R. C. Simpson

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)).