CONFERENCE: "Scottish Legal History Group Conference 2015‏" (Edinburgh, October 3, 2015)

SCOTTISH LEGAL HISTORY GROUP

Annual Conference - Saturday 3rd October 2015

The 35th 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 3rd October 2015. All welcome.

Programme

10.30               Coffee

11.00               First Session

Professor Dauvit Broun and Ms Joanna Tucker (University of Glasgow)

            “The earliest central judicial records”

                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?”

           

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