Selected essays on the history of Scots law : volume 2 : enlightenment, legal education, and critique / John W. Cairns ; edited by Elspeth Reid.

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2015.

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Enlightenment, legal education, and critique.

Law -- Scotland -- History.

Lawyers -- Scotland -- History.

Enlightened legal education 1. Lawyers, law Professors, and localities: The universities of Aberdeen, 1680-1750

2. Rhotoric, language, and Roman law: legal education and improvement in eighteenth-century Scotland

3. The influence of Smith's jurisprudence of 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. Willian Crosse, regius professor of civil law in the University of Glasgow, 1746-1749: a failure or 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 lecturers 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.

Enlightenment, legal education, and critique

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