Networks and Connections in Legal History

Michael Lobban is Professor of Legal History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, England. He is the author of The Common Law and English Jurisprudence, 1760-1850 (1991) and A History of the Philosophy of Law in the Common Law World, 1600-1900 (2007), as well as one of the authors of volumes XI-XIII of The Oxford History of the Laws of England. Ian Williams is Associate Professor at the University College London Faculty of Laws, England. His research interests are principally in legal history, particularly early-modern English legal history. He is co-editor of Landmark Cases in Criminal Law.

• 1. Introduction Michael Lobban and Ian Williams; 2. Networks and Influences: Contextualising Personnel and Procedures in the Court of Chivalry Anthony Musson; 3. Men of law and legal networks in Aberdeen, principally in 1600-1650 Adelyn Wilson; 4. Calling Time at the Bar: First women barristers and their networks and connections Judith Bourne; 5. The Thistle, the Rose, and the Palm: Scottish and English Judges in British East Florida M. C. Mirow; 6. 'The Bengal Boiler': Legal Networks in Colonial Calcutta Raymond Cocks; 7. The White Ensign on Land: The Royal Navy and Legal Authority in Early Sierra Leone Tim Soriano; 8. A Broker's Advice: Credit Networks and Mortgage Risk in the Eighteenth-century Empire Julia Rudolph; 9. Trans-Atlantic connections: The many networks and the enduring legacy of J.P. Benjamin Catharine MacMillan; 10. Interpretatio ex aequo et bono – the emergence of equitable interpretation in European legal scholarship Lorenzo Maniscalco; 11. Shakespeare and the European Ius Commune R. H. Helmholz; 12. Law Reporting and Law Making: the Missing Link in Nineteenth-century Tax Law Chantal Stebbings; 13. John Taylor Coleridge and English Criminal Law Philip Handler

'This is a very worthwhile collection, exploring the many and various ways in which networks and connections have had a bearing on the development of law, legal practice and legal systems. The chapters give different and stimulating perspectives on the importance of connections between lawyers, ideas and bodies of law, showing the influence of these connections, both in fostering inclusion and expansion, and also in excluding those outside a network. With a geographic reach which takes in Europe, Africa, North America and India, and a broad temporal scope, there is much to engage anyone with an interest in legal history.' Gwen Seabourne, Professor of Legal History, University of Bristol Law School