Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2

by John W. Cairns

Overview

Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique deals with broad themes in Legal History, such as the development of Scots Law through the major legal thinkers of the Enlightenment, essays on Roman law and miscellaneous essays on the literary and philosophical traditions within law.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748682133
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	07/27/2015
Series:	Edinburgh Studies in Law
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.80(d)

About the Author

John W. Cairns is Professor of Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include law and the Enlightenment, the history of Scots law, codification in Louisiana, and law and slavery. He has published two collections of essays in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series: Law, Lawyers, and Humanism: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 1 and Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2 (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2015). He is the co-editor, with Paul J. du Plessis, of The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2010) and Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2007).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Enlightened Legal Education; 1. Lawyers, Law Professors, and Localities: The Universityies of Aberdeen, 1680-1750; 2. Rhetoric, Language and Roman Law: Legal Education and Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Scotland; 3. The Influence of Smith’s Jurisprudence on Legal Education in Scotland; 4. The First Edinburgh Chair in Law: Grotius and the Scottish Enlightenment; The Development of the Glasgow Law School; 5. The Origins of the Glasgow Law School: The Professors of Civil Law, 1714-1761; 6. William Crosse, Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Glasgow, 1746-1749: A Failure of Enlightened Patronage; 7. “As Famous a School for Law as Edinburgh for Medicine”: The Glasgow Law School, 1761-1801; 8. John Millar, Ivan Andreyevich Tret’yakov, and Semyon Efimovich Desnitsky: A Legal Education in Scotland, 1761-1767; 9. From ‘Speculative’ to ‘Practical’ Legal Education: The Decline of the Glasgow Law School, 1801-1830; Enlightened Critique: Crime, Courts and Slavery; 10. John Millar’s Lectures on Scots Criminal Law; 11. Hamesucken and the Major Premiss in the Libel 1672-1770: Criminal Law in the Age of Enlightenment; 12. Ethics and the Science of Legislation: Legislators, Philosophers, and Courts in Eighteenth-Century Scotland; 13. Stoicism, Slavery, and Law: Grotian Jurisprudence and its Reception; Critiques: Literature and Legal History; 14. The Noose Hidden Under Flowers: Marriage and Law in Saint Ronan's Well; 15. A Note on the Bride of Lammermoor: Why Scott did not mention the Dalrymple Legend until 1830.