Dr Stephen Bogle

Senior Lecturer in Private Law (School of Law)

telephone: (+44) 0141 330 5577
email: Stephen.Bogle@glasgow.ac.uk

412, 5-9 The Square, The Stair Building, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ

Biography

I joined the School of Law in 2014. I have an MA in Philosophy (University of Edinburgh, 2005), an LLB (University of Strathclyde, 2007), an LLM by Research (University of Edinburgh, 2012), and a Ph.D. in Law (University of Edinburgh, 2016). I qualified a solicitor in Scotland in 2010 (but no longer practice). In general, I teach delict, contract, property, international sales law, and the history of legal thought.

Research interests

Put broadly, I am interested in obligations; that is, what we owe to each other. Specifically, my focus is on the law of obligations (including, contract and delict/tort).

I have written about good faith in contract law, mental health disorders and civil responsibility, the liability of public authorities for negligent acts, the vicarious liability of employers for the acts of their employees, the reform of the law of defamation in Scotland, and the interpretation of contracts.

I'm fascinated by intellectual history and how it helps us understand the ideas, practices, and institutions that shape the contemporary world. I have written about the role of autonomy within the development of contract law in Europe, the legal response to the South Sea bubble crisis, and how history can help shape contemporary theories of private law.

Over the last 10 years, I have been particularly concerned with how the law of contract developed in Europe during the early modern period and into the eighteenth century. The main output of this is my monograph, Contract before the Enlightenment: the ideas of Viscount Stair, 1619-1695 (OUP, 2023). This book explores the development of contractual thought in Scotland in relation to the intellectual context of seventeenth-century Scotland.

Publications

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Number of items: 21.

2024

Bogle, S. (2024) The Humanity of Private Law: A Review Essay, The Humanity of Private Law Part II: Evaluation. Nicholas J. McBride. Juridical Review, 2024(1), pp. 43-56. [Book Review]

2023

Bogle, S. (2023) Morality before the Enlightenment: an interpretation of Viscount Stair’s natural law theory, c. 1681. Journal of Scottish Philosophy, 21(2), pp. 189-209. (doi: 10.3366/jsp.2023.0361)

Bogle, S. (2023) Does Hastings matter for consumer protection? Hastings v Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd. Journal of Professional Negligence, 2023(2), pp. 99-103.

Bogle, S. (2023) Contract Before the Enlightenment: the Ideas of James Dalrymple, Viscount Stair, 1619-1695. Series: Oxford legal history. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780192884961

Bogle, S. (2023) Involuntariness in negligence actions. Legal Studies, 43(1), pp. 122-138. (doi: 10.1017/lst.2022.28)

2022

Bogle, S. (2022) Obligations. Jurisprudence, 13(3), pp. 418-488. (doi: 10.1080/20403313.2022.2091833)[Book Review]

Bogle, S. (2022) Paolo Astorri, Lutheran Theology and Contract Law in Early Modern Germany (ca. 1520-1720). Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh (www.schoeningh.de), 2019. xx + 657 pp. ISBN:9783506701503. €128. Edinburgh Law Review, 26(1), pp. 149-152. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2022.0756)[Book Review]

2021

Bogle, S. (2021) Private Law Theory and the Past. Working Paper. School of Law, University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)

2019

Bogle, S. (2019) Commentary on Jex-Blake v Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh (1873). In: Cowan, S., Kennedy, C. and Munro, V. E. (eds.) Scottish Feminist Judgments: (Re)Creating Law from the Outside In. Hart Publishing: Oxford, pp. 257-265. ISBN 9781509923267 (doi: 10.5040/9781509923298.ch-12.2)

Bogle, S. (2019) Responsibility for another's wrong in Scotland: stick with Lister or twist with Mohamud? Juridical Review, 2019(3), pp. 211-230.

Bogle, S. (2019) Inequality, just price and bad bargains: contracting attitudes after the South Sea crash, 1720. Journal of Legal History, 40(3), pp. 298-325. (doi: 10.1080/01440365.2019.1657690)

2017

Bogle, S. (2017) The Law of Contract 1670–1870, by Warren Swain. English Historical Review, 132(556), pp. 720-722. (doi: 10.1093/ehr/cex077)[Book Review]

Bogle, S. (2017) Stateless Law: Evolving Boundaries of a Discipline. Eds Helge Dedek and Shauna Van Praagh. Edinburgh Law Review, 21(2), pp. 315-317. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2017.0430)[Book Review]

MacQueen, H. L. and Bogle, S. (2017) Private autonomy and the protection of the weaker party: historical. In: Weatherill, S. and Vogenauer, S. (eds.) General Principles of Law: European and Comparative Perspectives. Series: Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law (23). Hart: Oxford, pp. 269-296. ISBN 9781509910717 (doi: 10.5040/9781509910724.ch-016)