Law, Lawyers, and Humanism

John W. Cairns is a legal historian and graduate of the University of Edinburgh (LLB PhD). His research interests cluster around law and the Enlightenment, the history of Scots law, codification in Louisiana, and law and slavery.

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Foundation and Continuity; 1. From Claves Curiae to Senators of the College of Justice: Changing Rituals and Symbols in Scottish Courts; 2. English Looters and Scottish Lawyers: the ius commune and the College of Justice; 3. Ius Civile in Scotland ca. 1600; 4. The Law, the Advocates and the Universities in Late Sixteenth-Century Scotland; 5. Scottish Law, Scottish Lawyers and the Status of the Union; 6. Natural Law, National Laws, Parliaments and Multiple Monarchies: 1707 and Beyond; 7. Attitudes to Codification and the Scottish Science of Legislation, 1600-1830; Significance of Dutch Humanism; 8. Importing our Lawyers from Holland: Netherlands' Influences on Scots Law and Lawyers in the Eighteenth Century; 9. Three Unnoticed Scottish Editions of Pieter Burman's Antiquitatum Romanarum brevis description; 10. Legal Study in Utrecht in the late 1740s: The Legal Education of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes; Development of the Legal Profession; 11. The Formation of the Scottish Legal Mind in the Eighteenth Century: Themes of Humanism and Enlightenment in the Admission of Advocates; 12. Advocates' Hats, Roman Law and Admission to the Bar, 1580-1812; 13. Alfenus Varus and the Faculty of Advocates: Roman Visions and the Manners that were Fit for Admission to the Bar in the Eighteenth Century; Blackstone, Feudalism and Institutional Writings; 14. Craig, Cujas, and the Definition of Feudum; Is a Feu a Usufruct?; 15. Blackstone, an English Institutist: Legal Literature and the Rise of the Nation State; 16. Professorial Classification of English Common Law; 17. Blackstone, Kahn Freund, and the Contract of Employment; 18. The Moveable Text of Mackenzie: Bibliographical Problems for the Scottish; Concept of Institutional Writing.