Overview
David Sellar was a pioneering historian of Scots law who rejected previous interpretations of the subject as a series of false starts and rejected experiments. He emphasised instead the continuity of legal development, with change a process of integration of external influences from very early times on. Sellar's approach, articulated mainly through essays published in diverse places over four decades, significantly influenced our general understanding of legal history in Scotland as well as leading to appreciation elsewhere of its comparative significance. By gathering Sellar's major essays in a single collection, this book demonstrates the scope and reach of Sellar's overall contribution. It provides an opportunity to view Sellar's work as a whole and to access his distinctive perspective on the overall trajectory of Scottish law.
Full Product Details
Author: Hector L. MacQueen
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474488778
ISBN 10: 1474488773
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 31 August 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
There are sixteen essays (let us call them chapters)in the book, of which three are directly concerned with Gaelic and the Highlands, and four contain passages of interest to Highland historians. Another nine are simply well worth reading by anyone, for David had an engagingly fluid, anecdotal style, and topics like cohabitation (Ch. 9), divorce (Ch. 10), murder (Ch. 11) and deathbed wishes (Ch. 12) come alive before our eyes.--Ronald Black ""West Highland Notes and Queries""
"There are sixteen essays (let us call them chapters)in the book, of which three are directly concerned with Gaelic and the Highlands, and four contain passages of interest to Highland historians. Another nine are simply well worth reading by anyone, for David had an engagingly fluid, anecdotal style, and topics like cohabitation (Ch. 9), divorce (Ch. 10), murder (Ch. 11) and deathbed wishes (Ch. 12) come alive before our eyes.--Ronald Black ""West Highland Notes and Queries"""
Author Information
Hector MacQueen has been a member of the Edinburgh Law School since 1979. Appointed to the Chair of Private Law in 1994, he was Dean of the Law School 1999-2003, and Dean of Research and Deputy Head of the College of Humanities and Social Science in the University 2004-2008. He is currently a Scottish Law Commissioner. He is the author of many books and articles on Scots law and its historical development in comparative perspective, and of key textbooks such as The Scottish Legal System (5th edition) (2013), Unjustified Enrichment Law Basics (3rd edition) (2013), and Studying Scots Law 4th edition (2012).
