David Maxwell Walker

David Maxwell Walker (9 April 1920 – 5 January 2014) was a Scottish lawyer, academic, and Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow.

Early life Walker was educated at the High School of Glasgow, at the time the city's publicly funded grammar school, where he was Mackindlay Prizeman in Classics. graduating in 1952.

Career From 1953 to 1954 he studied at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London, and in 1954 was appointed Professor of Jurisprudence at the School of Law of the University of Glasgow. and Glasgow (1985), and was appointed CBE in 1986.

Publications Law of Damages in Scotland, 1955 The Scottish Legal System, 1959, 8th edn 2001 Law of Delict in Scotland, 1966, 2nd edn 1981 Scottish Courts and Tribunals, 1969, 5th edn 1985 Principles of Scottish Private Law (2 vols), 1970, 4th edn (4 vols), 1988–89 Law of Prescription and Limitation in Scotland, 1973, 6th edn 2002 Law of Civil Remedies in Scotland, 1974 Law of Contracts in Scotland, 1979, 3rd edn 1995 Oxford Companion to Law, 1980 (ed) Stair's Institutions (6th edn), 1981 (ed) Stair Tercentenary Studies, 1981 The Scottish Jurists, 1985 Legal History of Scotland, 7 vols, 1988–2004 Scottish Part of Topham and Ivamy's Company Law, 12th edn 1955, to 16th edn 1978;

Personal life Walker married Margaret Knox in 1954. His interests included motoring, book-collecting and Scottish history. He served as Governor of the High School of Glasgow from 1974 to 2001. He lived in the West End of Glasgow until his death aged 93 on 5 January 2014.