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BIOGRAPHY Born in Rhodesia , now Zimbabwe , Alexander McCall Smith was educated in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe before moving to Scotland to study law. After returning to southern Africa to teach law at the University Of Botswana , he returned once more to Edinburgh , where he lives today. He was sometime Professor of Medical Law at the University Of Edinburgh and is now Emeritus Professor at its School of Law. He is the former chairman of the British Medical Journal Ethics Committee (until 2002), the former vice-chairman of the Human Genetics Commission of the United Kingdom , and a former member of the International Bioethics Commission of UNESCO . Due to his late success as a writer these other commitments could not be continued. He is an amateur '' ( 2006 ) (ISBN 1-85811-369-5) edited by Dr Michelle Tempest . He was appointed a CBE in the December 2006 New Year's Honours List . In June 2007 he was awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor Of Laws at a ceremony celebrating the tercentenary of Edinburgh University's School of Law. BIBLIOGRAPHY The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series
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