CONFERENCE: "Scottish Legal History Group Annual Conference" (Edinburgh, 4 October 2014)

WHAT: the 34th Scottish Legal History Group Annual Conference

WHERE: Reading Room of the Advocates’ Library, Parliament House, Edinburgh

WHEN: October, 4, 2014 10:30 am - 5:00 pm

Programme

10.30               Coffee

 11.00               First Session 

Dr Jenny Wormald (University of Edinburgh) ”And so it follows ... that the Kinges were the authors & makers of the lawes, and not the lawes of the Kings” (James VI, Trew Lawe of Free Monarchies).  Did he mean it?”

Dr Karin Bowie (University of Glasgow) “Protestations and the Making of Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland.”

12.30               Sherry. Break for Lunch.

2.15                 Second Session

Annual General Meeting ... to be followed at 2.30 approximately by:

Mr Kenneth Campbell, QC  “Collectors and Decisions: developments in case reporting at the birth of the ‘new’ Court of Session”

3.30                 Third Session

Dr Kathryn Chittick, Trent University, Ontario, “Walter Scott and the Reform of Scottish Judicature 1806-1810.”

Dr Anja Johansen, University of Dundee,  "The role of courts in disciplining police officers: a comparative view from Berlin and Paris, 1870-1914."

5.00                 Close

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SCOTTISH LEGAL HISTORY GROUP

Annual Conference - Saturday 4^th October 2014

To:       Prof. John Finlay, School of Law, The Stair Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ.

Please enrol me for the above Conference. I enclose my conference fee of £10.00/£5.00 (please delete as appropriate and make cheques payable to ‘The Scottish Legal History Group’).

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