Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique : : Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2 / / John W. Cairns.

The second volume in a collection of the most influential essays on Legal History from the career of John W. CairnsGBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748682133','ISBN:9780748682140');Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique deals with broader themes in Legal History, suc...

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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Edinburgh Studies in Law : ESL
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Physical Description:1 online resource (592 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • ENLIGHTENED LEGAL EDUCATION
  • 1 Lawyers, Law Professors, and Localities: The Universities 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 "Famous as a School for Law, as Edinburgh . . . for Medicine": Legal Education in Glasgow, 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
  • Index