Thirty-fourth annual conference

The 34th Annual Conference and AGM of the Scottish Legal History Group took place in the Reading Room of the Advocates Library, Parliament House, Edinburgh, on Saturday 4 October 2014.

Speakers

A full programme is available from the link to the right.

First Session

Professor John Finlay (University of Glasgow)
'Consulting Counsel in Eighteenth-Century Scotland'

Dr Karin Bowie (University of Glasgow)
'Protestations and the Making of Public Opinion in Early Modern Scotland'

Second Session

Mr Kenneth Campbell, QC
'Collectors and Decisions: developments in case reporting at the birth of the ‘new’ Court of Session'

Third Session

Dr Kathryn Chittick (Trent University, Ontario)
'Walter Scott and the Reform of Scottish Judicature 1806-1810'

Dr Anja Johansen (University of Dundee)
'The role of courts in disciplining police officers: a comparative view from Berlin and Paris, 1870-1914'