Death announced of Professor Gerry Maher KC

Gerry Maher KC, Professor of Criminal Law at Edinburgh Law School since 2000, has died, the Law School has announced "with greater sadness".

Born in 1953, Professor Maher studied law at Glasgow University until 1974 and obtained a BLitt at Oxford University in 1976. His first academic post was in the Department of Scots Law at Edinburgh University from 1976 to 1979. He was a lecturer and then senior lecturer in the Department of Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow from 1980 to 1992, and from 1992 to 2000 he held a chair as Professor of Law at the University of Strathclyde. 

Professor Maher was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1987 and was a practising advocate from 1989 to 1992. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2003. He was a full time Commissioner at the Scottish Law Commission from 2000 to September 2008, where he was the lead Commissioner on law reform projects including those on diligence, the age of criminal responsibility, insanity and diminished responsibility, and rape and other sexual offences. 

A book of condolence will be available in the Edinburgh Law School reception in due course.