A Festschrift in honour of Sir Gerald Gordon: one of the most influential figures in Scottish criminal law and procedure in the last century.
Selected essays by Professor William Gordon on Roman law and Scots law.
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.
A comparative study of the 'mixed jurisdictions' of Scotland and Louisiana.
This volume examines key issues in succession law from a variety of perspectives: national, historical and comparative. In particular it seeks to extend the techniques of legal comparison into an area of law where hitherto they have been little used.
This volume tests the claim that, as combinations of Civil and Common Law influences, the mixed systems of contract law in Scotland and South... Læs mere
Looks at specific areas – such as law and empire, codes and codification, death and economics, commerce and procedure – to contribute to the larger debate about Roman private law in Roman society.
This collection of essays considers the work of Professor Sir Thomas Smith QC (1915–1988) and, through that work, the development of Scots law as a mixed legal system.
A collection of 17 cutting-edge essays on Rome Season Two.
Compares the ancient epic and the American Western as parallel cultural narratives.
Presents Spinoza’s contribution to understandings of the imagination, art and creativity.
Analyses photographic portraits of nineteenth-century authors as exemplars of intermedial authorship and modern literary celebrity culture.