Scottish Legal History

The chapters have been road-tested with law students. The textbook has been developed with input from legal history lecturers at a number of Scottish universities. Complex and dry legal history is presented through examples and anecdotes, to help students to engage with and understand the material. Material is divided into easily digested chunks, arranged from the perspective of legal history (rather than political, social or economic history)

Discover how Scots law come into being, its use in dispute resolution in the medieval and early modern periods and how its authority developed over the centuries to the 1707 Union with England.From the roots of a law that applied to all subjects of the Scottish King to the Union with England, this new legal history textbook explores the genesis, evolution and enduring influence of early Scots law. Discover how and why Scots law come into being, how was it used in dispute resolution during the medieval and early modern periods and how its authority developed over the centuries.