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A Q&A with the editors of Refocus: The Films of Jane Campion
Read moreby Alexia L. Bowler and Adele Jones Refocus: The Films of Jane Campion (2023) is the first collection of scholarly […]
“A floating charge” – A Conversation with Jonny Hardman and Alisdair MacPherson
by Jonathan Hardman and Alisdair MacPherson This Q&A with Jonny Hardman and Alisdair MacPherson introduces their new edited collection for EUP series Edinburgh Studies in Law: Floating Charges in Scotland: New Perspectives and Current Issues. **Throughout the blog, Dr Alisdair MacPherson…
Hector MacQueen on David Sellar’s Essays (Part 3)
by Hector L. MacQueen Missed Part 1 and 2? Read it here first! Part 1Part 2 Each of the chapters after the first is an in-depth study of its topic which at the same time, and in David’s characteristically fluent…
Hector MacQueen on David Sellar’s Essays (Part 2)
by Hector L. MacQueen Missed Part 1? Read it here first! Another starting point on which David made common ground with Cooper was the importance for Scotland of the development of the law of the western Church – Canon law…
Hector MacQueen on David Sellar’s Essays (Part 1)
by Hector L. MacQueen David Sellar (1941-2019) was a pioneering historian of Scots law who convincingly and conclusively rejected previous interpretations of the subject as a series of false starts and rejected experiments. Instead, he emphasised the continuity of legal…
Covenants and Covenanting
By Neil McIntyre This month, The Scottish Historical Review publishes the first of a series of special issues that tackle key themes in Scottish History. ‘Covenants and Covenanting’ will showcase the latest research on the origins, impact and legacies of…
Scottish Affairs Special Issue on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Whose interests does an ACEs agenda for Scotland actually serve?
By Ariane Critchley, Emma Davidson, Laura H.V. Wright The guest editors of the November 2020 edition of Scottish Affairs share their thoughts on why Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) have galvanized so much attention in Scotland. They ask the question, in…
Common Good: The curious case of Princes Street Gardens
Andrew Ferguson discusses Common Good Law and the curious case of Princes Street Gardens
Obscure no more: Brexit and the Nobile Officium
What is The nobile Officium? It had previously been regarded as obscure, and few people had even heard of it, but that was all set to change with Brexit.
Investigating Scotland’s land issues, past, present and future
‘The politics of this country will probably, for the next few years, mainly consist in an assault upon the constitutional position of the landed interest.’ Benjamin Disraeli So said the Conservative politician and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in the late…