BOOK: Andrew R. C. SIMPSON and Jørn ØYREHAGEN SUNDE (eds.), Comparative Perspectives in Scottish and Norwegian Legal History, Trade and Seafaring, 1200-1800 (Edinburgh: University Press, 2023). ISBN: 9781399503877, pp. 344, £95.00

 

(Source: Edinburgh UP)

ABOUT THE BOOK

There were significant points of contact and similarities in the ways in which the laws of Scotland and Norway developed. The Treaty of Perth of 1266 was of significance in the state formation of both countries, and in the determination of their territorial boundaries. The laws and customs applicable in the Orkneys and the Shetlands remain distinctive due to Norse influence, centuries after those islands became subject to Scottish sovereignty. The extensive trading links between two countries united by the North Sea raises the question of how trade between the territories was regulated.

This book brings together experts in Norwegian and Scottish legal, economic and political history to explore these points of contact. It breaks new ground, considering Scots law in terms of its historical interactions and similarities with another national legal system, rather than in terms of its place at the intersection between the common law and the civilian traditions.

• Edited by Andrew R. C. Simpson, University of Edinburgh, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, Universitetet i Oslo.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction - by Andrew R C Simpson, Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, pp 1-32

PART 1 - The Medieval Period, ca. 1200–ca. 1500, pp 33-34

1 - The Treaty of Perth: Union of the realm and the king’s law - by Erik Opsahl, pp 35-62

2 - The Treaty of Perth: Union of the realm and the laws of the kingdom - By Dauvit Broun, pp 63-94

3 - Law and Administrative Change in Norway, Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries - by Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde, pp 95-121

4 - Law and Administrative Change in Scotland, Twelfth–Fourteenth Centuries - by Alice Taylor, pp 122-154

5 - Urban Legal Procedure in Fourteenth Century Norway - by Miriam Jensen Tveit, pp 155-180

6 - Urban Legal Procedure in Fourteenth Century Scotland: A fresh look at the 1317 court roll of Aberdeen - by Andrew R. C. Simpson, pp 181-208

PART 2 - The Early Modern Period, ca. 1500–ca. 1800, pp 209-210

7 - War and Peace: Scottish-Norwegian relations in the early modern period (ca. 1520–1707)- by Steve Murdoch, pp 211-231

8 - Traders and Immigrants: A Norwegian perspective on Scottish-Norwegian economic relations from the fifteenth to the early seventeenth century - by Per G Norseng, pp. 232-271

9 - Norm and Fact: Timber trade in early modern western Norway (1530–1730) - by Sören Koch, pp 272-296

10 - The Law and Economy of Shipwreck in Scotland during the Sixteenth Century - by J. D. Ford, pp 297-321

Index, pp 322-332

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