Civil Law has been taught at Edinburgh since 1710. Tomorrow, the 315th class of Roman lawyers will be the first with a female lecturer (guess who?), but not the last!
16.09.2025 12:59 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thrift of the day: two volumes of Erskine's Institutes for £25 👍
22.08.2025 14:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@cowan-lisacowan.bsky.social and I pondering the “imperishable foundations” of Scots law.
13.06.2025 07:32 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Peter Candy Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts - Book Launch | Edinburgh Law School
Our next event in the @legalhistoryed.bsky.social
Hybrid. Sign up to join us online. 22 April.
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
01.04.2025 08:44 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts with Dr. Peter Candy – The Edinburgh Legal History Blog
The @legalhistoryed.bsky.social is in conversation with Dr. Peter Candy, regarding his new book 'Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts'. Follow the link for details of the book launch event in April 22nd!
blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburghleg...
04.03.2025 11:47 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts with Dr. Peter Candy – The Edinburgh Legal History Blog
The @legalhistoryed.bsky.social is in conversation with Dr. Peter Candy, regarding his new book 'Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts'. Follow the link for details of the book launch event in April 22nd!
blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburghleg...
04.03.2025 11:47 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Some exciting news! The Stair Society will be holding a legal history moot on 1 March in Edinburgh to celebrate its 90th anniversary. Stay tuned for further details about the moot and how to attend.
28.01.2025 10:23 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Arrived at work this morning to find this beautiful "thank you" gift from a former student :) Make my day, why don't you?
28.01.2025 13:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Event: Frontier Law: Land, Justice, and Territory on the Edges of the Pacific World (Chile, 1740–1830) – The Edinburgh Legal History Blog
Join @legalhistoryed.bsky.social and the Edinburgh Centre for Global History next Wednesday for a discussion on indigenous law and ius commune in Early Modern Chile.
blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburghleg...
27.01.2025 13:41 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Edinburgh Uni historian and Corstorphine gal here. DM me for more, but the witch trials plaques; Doocot/site of the old sycamore and story of the "white lady"; the Secret Garden and nuclear bunker on Corstorphine Hill; etc etc.
22.01.2025 23:37 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Making legal history relevant since ‘92 (and by that I mean 1692)
Lecturer in Law @ University of Liverpool | Co-director of Selden’s Sister | Runner | Singer | Van lady
Maritime & social historian; 18th-C Collections Researcher for The National Archives UK. Sometime pirate. Views own &c
Scotland's leading legal history society. Serves to encourage the study and advance the knowledge of the history of Scots law.
https://www.stairsociety.org/
Law Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law
Legal History, Family Law, Criminal Law
Faculty bio: https://www.law.ufl.edu/faculty/elizabeth-katz
Publications: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1543206
Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights
Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
Irish academic (@lborouniversity.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Assist Prof Windsor Law | legal history of money, banking and central banking, especially in Canada | LPE/Const Approach to Money | co-ed @justmoney.bsky.social | sjd harvard law | Papers: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2799391
Scotland’s living memory. If you can think of it, we probably have it.
Retired Law professor still research-active, especially in legal history; but interested in other stuff too.
Research group dedicated to legal history, theory of law and philosophy of law @vubrussel.bsky.social
https://vubcore.blogspot.com
Legal history, historical data geekery, genealogy. Owner of oldscottish.com. Historical Records Specialist at FindMyPast.co.uk. All views my own, obviously. Lives in St Andrews, Fife
Professor at Harvard Law. Author of Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England. English Legal History. Criminal Law. Greenhorn gardener.
Legal historian, Colombiana artist, horror girlie ✌🏽
Current Law & History Fellow @ Stanford Law & Stanford Center for Law and History
Soon to be Assistant Professor of US Latiné History @ Appalachian State University
Wallace Stevens Professor Emeritus, UConn Law. Constitutional Law; Comparative Law; Legal History. Boston resident, Red Sox, Celtics fan. (NOT the Daily Mail reporter.) https://law.uconn.edu/person/richard-s-kay
Historian of law, the south, early America. Lover of baseball, college bball, English theatre. Author of SLAVE PATROLS: LAW & VIOLENCE IN VIRGINIA & THE CAROLINAS. Editor of Publications, Colonial Society of Massahusetts.
#LegalHistory prof, U of Bristol Law. Hon Prof, U of Edinburgh. Account nobody else's fault. On research leave 25-26, working on books: mayhem; 'legal medievalism'.
BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://stephanieemmabrown.co.uk/
Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin.
Researching legal history, legal professions and trials
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