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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…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • February 2, 2022
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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…

  • Edinburgh University Press
  • February 1, 2022
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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…

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  • January 31, 2022

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