On 23 November, at the winter graduation ceremony in law at the University of Edinburgh, four research students in legal history took their degrees. In alphabetical order they were: Peter Candy, currently Sir John Baker Lecturer and Research Fellow at St Catharine’s College Cambridge, who graduated Ph.D. with a thesis entitled “The Historical Development of Roman Maritime Law During the Late Republic and Early Empire”; Eva Drommel, who graduated LL.M. by Research, with a dissertation entitled “Marine Insurance in Early -Modern Scotland: A Study of the Emergence and Development of Legal Practice and Doctrine”; Cormack Hickey, who graduated LL.M. by Research, with a dissertation entitled “The Plurality of Laws and Its Effects inMedieval Ireland, c. 1166-1366”: and John Thomas, who graduated LL.M. by Research, with a dissertation entitled “Otto von Bismarck’s Progression Towards a Unified Germany, and a Jurisprudential Prelude to Nazi Germany”. The Centre congratulates them all.
