Legal history publications
Below is a chronological list of publications in legal history from the last five years. Details of the books listed here may be found on our Books page. For a complete list of publications, by author, held in the University of Glasgow Depository, please visit the links to the right.
Godfrey, A. Mark ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-5747
(2014)
Royal councils, law courts and governance: the role of litigation in early modern Scotland.
In: Jansen, N. and Oestmann, P. (eds.)
Rechtsgeschichte heute. Religion und Politik in der Geschichte des Rechts - Schlaglichter einer Ringvorlesung.
Series: Grundlagen der Rechtswissenschaft (22).
Mohr-Siebeck: Tübingen, Germany, pp. 77-94.
ISBN 9783161531088
Hallebeek, Jan, Schermaier, Martin, Fiori, Roberto, Metzger, Ernest ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 and Coriat, Jean-Pierre (Eds.)
(2014)
Inter cives necnon peregrinos: Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Sirks.
V&R Unipress: Goettingen.
ISBN 9783847103028
Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411
(2014)
Disclosing good faith in English contract law.
Edinburgh Law Review, 18(1),
pp. 141-145.
(doi: 10.3366/elr.2014.0188)
Metzger, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2014)
Review of: Miriam Indra, 'Status quaestio. Studien zum Freiheitsprozess im klassischen römischen Recht'.
Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung, 131,
[Book Review]
Reid, Dot ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7306-9680
(2014)
General principles of contract law.
In: MacNeil, Iain G. (ed.)
Scots Commercial Law.
Avizandum: Edinburgh.
ISBN 9781904968566
Metzger, Ernest ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2014)
Cum servo agere.
In: Hallebeek, J., Schermaier, M., Fiori, R., Metzger, E. and Coriat, J.-P. (eds.)
Inter cives necnon peregrinos: Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Sirks.
V&R Unipress: Goettingen, pp. 533-543.
ISBN 9783847103028
Metzger, Ernest ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2015)
Litigation.
In: Johnston, David (ed.)
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law.
Series: Cambridge companions to literature.
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 272-298.
ISBN 9780521895644
(doi: 10.1017/CCO9781139034401.018)
Reid, Dot ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7306-9680 and MacQueen, Hector
(2013)
Fraud or error: a thought experiment?
Edinburgh Law Review, 17(3),
pp. 343-369.
(doi: 10.3366/elr.2013.0171)
Metzger, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2013)
Agree to disagree: local jurisdiction in the lex irnitana.
In: Burrows, A., Johnston, D. and Zimmermann, R. (eds.)
Judge and Jurist: Essays in Memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry.
Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 207-226.
ISBN 9780199677344
Godfrey, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-5747
(2013)
Scotland: the court of session from its foundation to 1800.
In: van Rhee, C.H. and Wijffels, A. (eds.)
The European Courts: A Portrait Through History.
Third Millennium Information: London, UK, pp. 190-197.
ISBN 9781906507404
Metzger, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2013)
An outline of Roman civil procedure.
Roman Legal Tradition, 9,
pp. 1-30.
Finlay, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-2690
(2012)
The Community of the College of Justice: Edinburgh and the Court of Session 1687-1808.
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.
ISBN 9780748645770
Godfrey, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-5747
(2012)
The courts of Scotland.
In: Mulhern, M.A. (ed.)
The Law.
Series: Scottish Life and Society: A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology (13).
European Ethnological Research Centre: Edinburgh, pp. 131-154.
ISBN 9781906566043
Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411
(2012)
Where sympathy lies in contractual interpretation: 'But What’s Puzzling You, is the Nature of My Game'.
Edinburgh Law Review, 16(2),
pp. 242-246.
(doi: 10.3366/elr.2012.0105)
Finlay, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-2690
(2012)
Trusts.
Dundee University Press: Dundee, UK.
ISBN 9781845861292
Metzger, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2012)
Law and procedure, Rome: Civil procedure [additions and revisions to].
In: Hornblower, S., Spawforth, A. and Eidinow, E. (eds.)
Oxford Classical Dictionary. 4th edition.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780199567386
Metzger, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2012)
Obligations in classical procedure.
In: McGinn, T.A.J. (ed.)
Obligations In Roman Law: Past, Present, And Future.
University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, MI., USA, pp. 158-173.
ISBN 9780472118434
Metzger, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2012)
Review of: A.M. Riggsby, Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans.
Journal of Roman Studies, 102,
pp. 354-355.
(doi: 10.1017/S0075435812000482)[Book Review]
Metzger, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2012)
Remedy of prohibition against Roman judges in civil trials.
In: Brand, P. and Getzler, J. (eds.)
Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law: From Antiquity to Modern Times.
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 177-191.
ISBN 9781107018976
(doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139093613.012)
Metzger, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2012)
Alan Ferguson Rodger (1944-2011).
IVRA: Rivista Internazionale di Diritto Romano e Antico, 60,
pp. 358-364.
Baston, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Metzger, E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (Eds.)
(2012)
The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry: With a Bibliography of his Works.
Traditio Iuris Romani: Glasgow.
ISBN 9780956642318
Metzger, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2012)
Alan Rodger's writings on Roman Law.
In: Baston, K. and Metzger, E. (eds.)
The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry: With a Bibliography of his Works.
Traditio Iuris Romani: Glasgow, UK, pp. 189-198.
ISBN 9780956642318
Finlay, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-2690
(2012)
Corruption, regionalism and legal practice in Eighteenth-century Scotland: The rise and fall of David Armstrong, advocate.
Transactions of the Dumfries and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, 86,
pp. 143-172.
Robinson, O.F. (Ed.) (2012) The Laws and Customs of Scotland in Matters Criminal, by Sir George Mackenzie. Series: Publications (Stair Society). Stair Society: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781872517261
Metzger, Ernest ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2012)
Vindex.
In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.)
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History.
Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: Oxford.
ISBN 9781405179355
(doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah13258)
Finlay, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-2690
(2012)
The Admission Register of Notaries Public in Scotland, 1700-1799 [2 vols.].
Scottish Record Society: Edinburgh.
Godfrey, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-5747
(2011)
Review of: Illegality and Public Policy, by R.A. Buckley.
Edinburgh Law Review, 15(3),
pp. 505-507.
(doi: 10.3366/elr.2011.0074)[Book Review]
Godfrey, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-5747
(2011)
Review of: Non-Contractual Liability Arising out of Damage Caused to Another (PEL Liab. Dam.), prepared by Christian von Bar.
Edinburgh Law Review, 15(2),
pp. 314-315.
(doi: 10.3366/elr.2011.0038)[Book Review]
Godfrey, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-5747
(2011)
Mutuality, retention and set-off: Inveresk plc v Tullis Russell Papermakers Ltd.
Edinburgh Law Review, 15(1),
pp. 115-121.
(doi: 10.3366/elr.2011.0005)
Finlay, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-2690
(2011)
Arbitration in Eighteenth-Century Scotland.
Juridical Review, 2011,
pp. 277-291.
Finlay, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-2690
(2011)
Religion in the history of family law in Scotland.
In: Mair, J. and Orucu, E. (eds.)
The Place of Religion in Family Law: A Comparative Search.
Series: European family law (30).
Intersentia: Cambridge, OR, USA, pp. 267-302.
ISBN 9781780680156
Finlay, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-2690
(2011)
Scots lawyers and House of Lords appeals in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Journal of Legal History, 32(3),
pp. 249-277.
(doi: 10.1080/01440365.2011.627151)
Finlay, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-2690
(2011)
The history of lawyers in the British Isles.
In: Dolemeyer, B. (ed.)
Anwaelte und ihre Geschichte.
Mohr Siebeck: Tubingen, pp. 1097-1226.
ISBN 978-3-16-150757-1
Metzger, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2010)
Review of C. Anderson, Roman Law [2009].
Scots Law Times,
Metzger, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2010)
Remarks on David Daube’s Lectures on Sale, with Special Attention to the liber homo and res extra commercium.
In: Metzger, E (ed.)
David Daube: A Centenary Celebration.
Traditio Iuris Romani: Glasgow, pp. 101-126.
ISBN 9780956642301
Reid, D. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7306-9680
(2010)
Inheritance rights of children.
Edinburgh Law Review, 14(2),
pp. 318-322.
(doi: 10.3366/E1364980910001423)
Godfrey, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-5747
(2010)
Parliament and the Law.
In: Brown, K. and MacDonald, A. (eds.)
The History of the Scottish Parliament: Parliament in Context, 1235-1707.
Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.
ISBN 9780748614868
Godfrey, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-5747
(2010)
Ratio decidendi and foreign law in the history of Scots Law.
In: Dauchy, S., Bryson, W.H. and Mirow, M.C. (eds.)
Ratio Decidendi: Guiding Principles of Judicial Decisions, Volume 2: Foreign Law.
Series: Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History (25/2).
Dunker & Humblot: Berlin, pp. 81-105.
ISBN 9783428534333
Metzger, E. (2010) Civil Procedure in Classical Rome: Having an audience with the magistrate. In: de Angelis, F. and Harris, W. (eds.) Spaces of Justice in the Roman World. Series: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition (35). Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 27-41. ISBN 9789004189256
Metzger, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2010)
Adam Smith's historical jurisprudence and the 'method of the civilians'.
Loyola Law Review, 56(1),
pp. 1-31.
Finlay, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-2690
(2010)
The History of delay in Civil Procedure: Scotland 1600-1808.
In: Rhee, C. H. (ed.)
The History of Delay in Civil Procedure.
Series: Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History (28).
Dunker & Humblot: Berlin, pp. 121-152.
ISBN 9783428134090
Godfrey, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-5747
(2010)
Procedural Delay, Appeal and Advocation in the Court of Session in Sixteenth-Century Scotland.
In: van Rhee, C. H. (ed.)
Within a reasonable time : the history of due and undue delay in civil litigation.
Series: Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History (28).
Duncker and Humblot: Berlin, pp. 153-175.
ISBN 9783428134090
Robinson, O.F. (2010) Bishops, bankers, and debt. In: Dondorp, H., Hallebeek, J., Wallinga, T. and Winkel, L. (eds.) Ius Romanum - Ius Commune - Ius Hodiernum: Studies in Honour of Eltjo Schrage on the occasion of his 65th birthday. Scientia Verlag: Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Godfrey, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-5747
(2009)
Review of: The Law of Contract in Scotland, by W.W. McBryde.
Edinburgh Law Review, 13(1),
pp. 158-160.
(doi: 10.3366/E1364980908001145)[Book Review]
Finlay, J ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-2690
(2009)
The History of the Notary in Scotland.
In: Schmoeckel, M and Schuber, W (eds.)
Handbuch zur Geschichte des Notariats der europäischen Traditionen.
Nomos: Baden-Baden, pp. 393-428.
ISBN 978-3-8329-4068-3
Metzger, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2009)
Lex Irnitana.
In: Katz, Stanley N. (ed.)
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780195134056
Metzger, E ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816
(2009)
Formula.
In: Katz, S.N. (ed.)
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 9780195134056
Robinson, O.F. (2009) Justinian. In: Cane, P. and Conaghan, J. (eds.) New Oxford Companion to Law. Series: Oxford Companions. Oxford University Press, pp. 664-665. ISBN 978-0-19-929054-3
Godfrey, A.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1118-5747
(2009)
Civil Justice in Renaissance Scotland: the Origins of a Central Court.
Series: Medieval law and its practice, 4.
Brill: Leiden ; Boston, MA.
ISBN 9789004174665
Finlay, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-2690
(2009)
Lawyers and the early modern state: regulation, exclusion, and numerus clausus.
Canadian Journal of History: Annales Canadiennes d'Histoire, 44(3),
pp. 383-410.
Metzger, E. (2009) Adam Smith’s historical jurisprudence and the "method of the civilians". In: Smith in Glasgow '09, Glasgow, UK, 31 March - 2 April 2009,