Comparative Perspectives in Scottish and Norwegian Legal History, Trade and Seafaring, 1200-1800

Andrew R. C. Simpson is the Professor in Scots Private Law in the School of Law at the University of Aberdeen. Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde is Professor in Legal History at the University of Oslo. His research focuses on medieval, early modern and modern Norwegian legal history. He completed work on this book whilst being a project manager at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo.

Introduction, Andrew R C Simpson and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde



Section One: the medieval period, ca.1200-ca.1500

1. The Treaty of Perth: Union of the realm and the king’s law, Erik Opsahl

2. The Treaty of Perth: Union of the realm and the laws of the kingdom, Dauvit Broun

3. Law and Administrative Change in Norway, Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde

4. Law and Administrative Change in Scotland, Twelfth-Fourteenth Centuries, Alice Taylor

5. Urban Legal Procedure in Fourteenth Century Norway, Miriam Jensen Tveit

6. Procedures of the Scottish Common Law in a Medieval Town: A fresh look at the 1317 court roll of Aberdeen, Andrew R C Simpson



Section Two: the early modern period, ca 1500-ca 1800

7. War and Peace: Scottish-Norwegian relations in the early modern period (ca 1520-1707), Steve Murdoch

8. Traders and Immigrants: A Norwegian perspective on Scottish-Norwegian economic relations from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century, Per G Norseng

9. Norm and Fact: Timber trade in early modern western Norway, Sören Koch

10. The Law and Economy of Shipwreck in Scotland during the Sixteenth Century, J D Ford