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View article: Magna Carta, Scotland and Scots Law
Magna Carta, Scotland and Scots Law Open
The 800th anniversary of the execution of Magna Carta by King John of England at Runnymede in June 1215 saw the publication of much new writing on the Charter and its significance, both at the time and over subsequent centuries. 1Debate wa…
View article: Legal aspects of memory: a summary of scientific evidence issued by the Psychology and Law Sections of the British Academy
Legal aspects of memory: a summary of scientific evidence issued by the Psychology and Law Sections of the British Academy Open
Published as an annex to Baddeley, A., Brewin, C.R., Davies, G.M., Kopelman, M.D. & MacQueen, H.L. (2023), �Legal aspects of memory: a summary of scientific evidence issued by the Psychology and Law Sections of the British Academy�, Journa…
View article: Legal aspects of memory: a report issued by the Psychology and Law Sections of the British Academy
Legal aspects of memory: a report issued by the Psychology and Law Sections of the British Academy Open
We describe the commissioning, publication, and contents of a report on legal aspects of memory. The report was the result of a unique collaboration between the Psychology and Law �Sections� of the British Academy that brought together the…
View article: William David Hamilton Sellar, MVO, BA, LLB, LLD, FRHistS, FSAScot
William David Hamilton Sellar, MVO, BA, LLB, LLD, FRHistS, FSAScot Open
This paper is a personal memoir of the late David Sellar (1941-2019), written by his first doctoral student who subsequently became a long-standing colleague, collaborator and friend. It reflects in particular on his academic contribution …
View article: Ole Lando (September 2, 1922–April 5, 2019)
Ole Lando (September 2, 1922–April 5, 2019) Open
If you want to know about Ole Lando, you can do no better than read his own memoir, “My Life as a Lawyer,” published in the Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht in 2002.1 There he sets out in characteristically short and pithy sentence…
View article: Fraud or Error: A Thought Experiment?
Fraud or Error: A Thought Experiment? Open
This article examines some anomalies in the way in which Scots law classifies cases involving fraud and those where induced is preferred. Scots law has been unable to make a conscious structural choice in this regard. was in a muddle in t…
View article: General Concepts of Obligations and Contract in Scots Law: From Stair to Now
General Concepts of Obligations and Contract in Scots Law: From Stair to Now Open
The material is set in a much wider historical-comparative context in Martin Hogg
View article: Note on Editions of Texts
Note on Editions of Texts Open
It is necessary to say a few words about the editions of the main medieval treatises of Scots law which have been used in this book.The two principal works are Regiam Majestatem and Quoniam Attachiamenta.Until recently, there was no satisf…
View article: Preface
Preface Open
This book began life in 1978 in research towards a Ph.D. in the Faculty of Law at the University of Edinburgh. 1 Two years before, David Sellar's Honours course on the History of Scots Law, and the sense that a whole field of study lay out…
View article: Pragmatism, Precepts and Precedents: Commercial Law and Legal History
Pragmatism, Precepts and Precedents: Commercial Law and Legal History Open
Introduction: Angelo and the History of Insurance and BillsIt is an honour and a privilege to be asked to give this Law Agency Lecture in commemoration and celebration of Angelo Forte. 1 I fi rst met him in 1980, in Glasgow at a gathering …
View article: Unilateral Promises: Scots Law Compared with the PECL and the DCFR
Unilateral Promises: Scots Law Compared with the PECL and the DCFR Open
This contribution compares the recognition of a general concept of unilateral promises, binding without acceptance by the promisee, in Article 2:107 of the Principles of European Contract Law (PECL) and Article II.-1:103 of the Draft Commo…
View article: Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland
Common Law and Feudal Society in Medieval Scotland Open
The close links between the Scots and English law in the Middle Ages have long been recognised but this book re-assesses the relevance of traditional approaches to Scottish legal history in the light cast by more recent work on English leg…
View article: South of Scotland Castles of the 15th Century
South of Scotland Castles of the 15th Century Open
This data details the locations of castles in the south of Scotland in the 15th century. The locations were gathered by Prof MacQueen. The data were cleaned and mapped by Pauline Ward using ESRI ArcGIS 10.2 with assistance from Stuart Macd…