Development of Commercial Law in Scotland, Volume 1

Jonathan Hardman is Senior Lecturer in Company and Commercial Law at the University of Edinburgh. Dr Alisdair MacPherson is Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of Aberdeen. He is the author of The Floating Charge (2020) and editor of Avizandum Statutes on Scots Commercial and Consumer Law. His work has also been published in leading law journals.Alisdair D. J. MacPherson is Senior Lecturer in Commercial Law at the University of AberdeenAdelyn L M Wilson is the Head of Strathclyde Law School and a Professor of Law at the University of Strathclyde

• ForewordPatrick S. Hodge, Lord Hodge, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United KingdomList of ContributorsIntroductionJonathan Hardman, Alisdair D J MacPherson and Adelyn L M Wilson1. Conceptions of Commercial Law in ScotlandJonathan Hardman and Alisdair D J MacPherson 2. Commerce and Contract Law in ScotlandHector L MacQueen3. Public and Private Commercial Law Distinguished: The Impact of the 1707 Union on the Commercial Law of ScotlandRobert Brett Taylor4. Before Bell: Scots Law, Commerce, and the British Empire in the Long Eighteenth CenturyAndrew Mackillop5. The Contribution of Commerce and Industry to Scots Commercial Law in the Eighteenth CenturyHunter Harris6. The Use of the Civil law and the Law Merchant as Sources in the Works of George Joseph BellLaura Macgregor7. “Elasticity” in the Legal Curriculum: The Introduction of the Class of Mercantile Law in the University of EdinburghJohn W Cairns 8. The Contribution of Practitioners to Scots Commercial LawJohn Finlay9. The Contribution of Law Reform to the Development of Scots Commercial LawColin Tyre, the Rt Hon Lord Tyre10. The Contribution of the Judiciary to Scots Commercial LawSarah P L Wolffe, the Hon Lady Wolffe11. Historical Approaches in Modern Commercial LawAngus Glennie, the Rt Hon Lord Glennie12. The Value of History to Modern Commercial LawJames Drummond Young, the Rt Hon Lord Drummond YoungEpilogueJonathan Hardman, Alisdair D J MacPherson and Adelyn L M WilsonIndex