Abstract / Description of output
The chapter explores the development of law teaching in the University of Edinburgh in the later eighteenth-century, showing how Adam Smith's thinking promoted the development by law professors, all linked to Henry Dundas, of an empirical and historically oriented attitude to law and government. This had a major impact on Scottish thinking about law and government, not just among the lawyers.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law |
Subtitle of host publication | Essays in honour of Knud Haakonssen |
Editors | Ian Hunter, Richard Whatmore |
Place of Publication | Edinburgh |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Chapter | 11 |
Pages | 278-305 |
Number of pages | 28 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781474449243, 9781474449250 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781474449229 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Feb 2019 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Adam Smith
- Henry Dundas
- David Hume
- Allan Maconochie
- John Millar
- Alexander Fraser Tytler
- James Balfour
- William Wallace
- patronage
- empirical law
- history of law
- scots law
- law of nature and nations
- civil law
- roman law
- universal history
- Greek and Roman antiquities
- Robert Dundas
- William Robertson
- Walter Scott
- Henry Brougham
- Faculty of Advocates
- John Wright
- historical empiricism
- Macaulay
- Marinell Ash
- historiography
- Case Law
- courts
- precedent
- Edinburgh
- Edinburgh Law School
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John W. Cairns
- School of Law - Chair in Civil Law
- Centre for Legal History
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