Gerard 'Gerry' Maher KC (1953–2023)[1][2] was a Scottish lawyer and academic.
Maher studied Law at the University of Glasgow and obtained a B.Litt.
He was appointed as a full-time Commissioner at the Scottish Law Commission in February 2000, and was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2003.
Professor Maher was the author of textbooks on international private law and (with Sheriff Douglas Cusine) was the author of a textbook on the law of diligence (the means by which civil law judgments are enforced against assets in Scotland).
During his time at the Scottish Law Commission Professor Maher had responsibility for finalising the Commission work on the reform of the law of diligence - largely implemented by the Bankruptcy and Diligence (Scotland) Act 2007.