NOTICE: Scottish Legal History Group Conference

The Thirty-First Annual Conference of the Scottish Legal History Group will be held on 1 October 2011

The thirty-first Annual Conference and AGM of the Scottish Legal History Group will be held in the Reading Room of the Advocates’ Library, Parliament House, Edinburgh, on Saturday 1st October 2011. All welcome upon payment of the conference fee of £10 to the Secretary, Dr Mark Godfrey, School of Law, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ.

Programme

10.30am Coffee

11.00 First Session

• Bess Rhodes (University of St Andrews), 'Property, Piety and Power: Land Tenure in the Burgh of St Andrews, c.1500-1580'
• Dr Anna Groundwater (University of Edinburgh), '"We bund and oblissis us never more to querrell": Bonding and the Application of the Law in the Reign of James VI'

12.30 Pre-lunch drinks. Break for Lunch.
2.15 Second Session

Annual General Meeting ... to be followed by:

2.30 (approx.)

• Karen Baston (University of Edinburgh), 'Advocates’ Libraries in Edinburgh in the Early Eighteenth Century'

3.30 Third Session

• Christine Kelly (University of Glasgow), “Sheriff William Watson: the Forgotten Victorian Reformer of Juvenile Justice.”
• John MacLeod (University of Glasgow), “Transactions in Fraud of Creditors in Scots Law”

5.00pm Close