• A close up of a painted portrait of James Macpherson.

The courtyard outside Parliament Hall in Edinburgh

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…