Joe Thomson

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]

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.

• 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