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Lawyers in Scotland in the later sixteenth century took a disproportionate interest in the law governing maritime commerce. Some essays in this collection consider their handling of the subject in treatises they wrote. Other essays, however, show that disputes relating to maritime trade were handled in a different way in the courts of the towns at which ships arrived. Further essays examine the relationship between these contrasting perspectives. Although the essays focus on the law governing maritime commerce in Scotland, they also contribute to a wider debate about the nature of maritime law in early-modern Europe.

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"The press about volume 1 in the series: ""[The book] succeeds as an excellent point of entry to what at times can seem like a highly complex subject. [..] [The editors] and their fellow contributors have undoubtedly got the new series off to the strongest possible start."" – Warren Swain, The Edinburgh Law Review"

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J.D. Ford holds the chair of Civil Law at the University of Aberdeen. His edition of Alexander King’s Treatise on Maritime Law appeared in 2018, and his book about The Emergence of Privateering was published by Brill in 2023.

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