NEIL MacCORMICK

Personal Details:
Born: 27.05.1941, Glasgow, Scotland;
son of John MacDonald and Margaret; married Caroline Rona Barr in 1965 (separated); children: Janet, Morag, Sheena.

Education:
University of Glasgow, M.A. (philosophy and English literature), 1963; Balliol College, Oxford, B.A. and M.A. (jurisprudence), 1965; University of Edinburgh, LL.D., 1982;
honorary degree from Uppsala University, 1986.

Work:
University of St.Andrews, Dundee, Scotland, lecturer in jurisprudence, 1965-67; Oxford University, Oxford, England, fellow of Balliol College, 1967-72; University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, Regius Professor of Public Law, 1972- , dean of faculty of law, 1973-76 and 1985-86; member of national executive committee of Scottish National Party 1978-81, vice-president 1999- ; elected to the European Parliament, 1999.

Member: Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (president 1976-78); Society of Public Teachers of Law (vice-president, 1982-83, president 1984-85); British Academy (fellow, 1986); Royal Society of Edinburgh (fellow, 1986); Aristotelian Society.

Publications:
"The Scotish Debate", (Editor), 1970; "Lawyers in Their Social Settings", (Editor), 1976;
"Legal Reasining and Legal Theory", 1978; "H.L.A.Hart", 1981; "Legal Right and Social Democracy: Essays in Legal and Political Philosophy", 1982; "Grundlagen des institutionalistischen rechtspositivismus" (with O.Weinberger), 1985; "An Institutional Theory of Law (with O.Weinberger), 1986; "The Legal Mind" (editor with P. Birks), 1986; "Enlightenment Rights and Revolution" (editor with Zaren Bankowski), 1989; "Questioning Sovereignty", 1999.