Readers of this Blog are aware of its interest in slavery. The topic is both contemporary and very much in the news, as the tragedy…
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200 years ago, Walter Scott, Edinburgh alumnus in arts and law, advocate, and Clerk of Session, published Waverley, and created a sensation. The quotation from…
Comments closedThe retirement of a distinguished colleague at the height of his powers could seem a misfortune; but, in fact, it raises hope that, freed from the increasing…
Comments closedThis blogger’s interest in the great English jurist, William Blackstone, is probably obvious. But he has recently been informed by his friend Georgia Chadwick of…
Comments closedReaders of this Blog will be interested to know that on 10 October, 2014, the retiral of Professor Winkel from the chair of legal history…
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