Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2
John W. Cairns
Abstract
This is the second volume in a collection of the most influential essays on legal history from the career of Professor John W. Cairns. The book 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. Both volumes combine together and reprint a selection of some of the many articles and essays published by Cairns over a distinguished career in legal history. It is a mark of Cairn's international eminence that much of ... More
This is the second volume in a collection of the most influential essays on legal history from the career of Professor John W. Cairns. The book 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. Both volumes combine together and reprint a selection of some of the many articles and essays published by Cairns over a distinguished career in legal history. It is a mark of Cairn's international eminence that much of his prolific output has been published outside of the UK, in a wide variety of journals and collections. The consequence is that some of his most valuable writing has appeared in sources which are difficult to locate.
Keywords:
legal history,
Scots law,
legal thinkers,
Enlightenment,
Roman law
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780748682133 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: January 2018 |
DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748682133.001.0001 |
