David Maxwell Walker CBE QC FBA FRSE (9 April 1920[1] – 5 January 2014) was a Scottish lawyer, academic, and Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow.
[4] Walker then began study at the University of Glasgow, but interrupted this to join the Army at the outbreak of World War II in 1939.
He began as a non-commissioned officer in the Cameronians, was seconded to the Royal Army Service Corps in 1941, and then served with the Indian Armed Forces in India in 1942, in the southwest Asia from 1942 to 1943, and in Italy from 1943 to 1946, rising to the rank of captain.
[3] He resumed study at Glasgow in 1945, graduating MA in classics in 1946 and LLB (Distinction) (Robertson Scholar) in 1948, and was called to the Bar the same year.
[3] In 1958, he succeeded Andrew Dewar Gibb as Regius Professor of Law at Glasgow, and was appointed Queen's Counsel.