Friday, March 4, 2022

Book Launch: Sellar's Select Essays on Scottish Legal History

[We have word of the following book launch.  DRE]

On Friday, March 18, 2022, from 15:00-17:15, the Edinburgh Centre for Private Law presents an event to celebrate the launch of Continuity, Influences and Integration in Scottish Legal History: Select Essays of David Sellar, edited by Hector L. MacQueen. 

The speakers include Dick Helmholz (Ruth Wyatt Rosenson Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago); Caroline Humfress (Professor in Medieval History, University of St Andrews); Alice Taylor (Professor of Medieval History at King’s College London); Hector MacQueen (Emeritus Professor of Private Law, University of Edinburgh); Gwen Seabourne (Professor of Legal History, University of Bristol); Tom Green (Lecturer, University of Aberdeen); Alexandra Braun (Lord President Reid Professor of Law, University of Edinburgh); Stephanie Dropuljic (Lecturer, University of Exeter); Remco van Rhee (Professor of European Legal History and Comparative Civil Procedure, Maastricht University). 

Programme
1500 - Introduction - Hector MacQueen
1515 - Celtic law - Alice Taylor1530 - Canon law - Dick Helmholz
1545 - English law - Gwen Seabourne
1600 - Break
1615 - Roman law - Caroline Humfress
1630 - Marriage - Tom Green
1645 - Criminal law - Stephanie Dropuljic
1700 - Succession - Alexandra Braun
1715 - Concluding words - Remco van Rhee

The book is available on the Edinburgh University Press website.  This event is free and open to all but registration is required [here].