Divorce: Property and Pensions: Hume Papers on Public Policy 7.2

by Hector L. MacQueen

With the divorce rate rising ever upwards, this volume offers an up-to-date review of all the legal and economic considerations that affect the division of property and pensions upon divorce. Contributors draw upon the experience in the USA, in England, and in Scotland to discuss the impact of law on human behaviour, and to explain how changes in both the law and in economic circumstances have combined to make marriage more fragile and divorce more common.

96 pages, Paperback

Published June 15, 1999

About the author

Hector Lewis MacQueen CBE FBA FRSE (born 1956) is a Scottish academic, a senior scholar of Scots law and legal history, and a former member of the Scottish Law Commission. He is Professor of Private Law at the University of Edinburgh and a former Dean of its Faculty of Law. He is author, co-author and editor of a large number books on Scottish law and legal history, including the 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th editions of the standard text Gloag & Henderson Law of Scotland, and is former Literary Director of the Stair Society. He is a member of the International Advisory Group for the JKLH-funded project, The Paradox of Medieval Scotland, 1093 - 1286. In 1995 he became a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh.

He is the son of the literary scholar Professor John MacQueen.