Continuity, Influences and Integration in Scottish Legal History: Select Essays of David Sellar

Hector MacQueen

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Continuity, Influences and Integration in Scottish Legal History: Select Essays of David Sellar

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Edited collection of the legal history essays of David Sellar (1941-2019).

David Sellar was a pioneering historian of Scots law who rejected previous interpretations of the subject as a series of false starts and rejected experiments. He emphasised instead the continuity of legal development, with change a process of integration of external influences from very early times on. Sellar’s approach, articulated mainly through essays published in diverse places over four decades, significantly influenced our general understanding of legal history in Scotland as well as leading to appreciation elsewhere of its comparative significance.

By gathering Sellar's major essays in a single collection, this book demonstrates the scope and reach of Sellar’s overall contribution. It provides an opportunity to view Sellar’s work as a whole and to access his distinctive perspective on the overall trajectory of Scottish law.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Edinburgh
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages	408
ISBN (Electronic)	9781474488792, 9781474488785
ISBN (Print)	9781474488761
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474488785
Publication status	Published - 6 Jan 2022

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Name	Edinburgh Studies in Law
Publisher	Edinburgh University Press
Volume	17

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