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. My academic qualifications include an MA in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh (2005), an LLB from the University of Strathclyde (2007), an LLM by Research from the University of Edinburgh (2012), and a Ph.D. in Law from the University of Edinburgh (2016). I qualified as a solicitor in Scotland in 2010, although I no longer practice. My teaching areas encompass delict, contract, property, international sales law, and the history of legal thought.

Research interests

My primary interest lies in obligations—specifically, what we owe to each other. My focus is on the law of obligations, which includes contract and delict/tort law.

I have authored works on a variety of topics including 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 their employees' actions, the reform of defamation law in Scotland, and the interpretation of contracts.

I am deeply fascinated by intellectual history and its role in understanding the ideas, practices, and institutions that shape the contemporary world. My writings explore themes such as the role of autonomy in the development of contract law in Europe, the legal response to the South Sea Bubble crisis, and the ways in which historical perspectives can inform contemporary theories of private law.

Over the past decade, I have focused particularly on the development of contract law in Europe during the early modern period and into the eighteenth century. This research culminated in my monograph, Contract before the Enlightenment: The Ideas of Viscount Stair, 1619-1695 (OUP, 2023), which examines the evolution of contractual thought in Scotland within the intellectual context of seventeenth-century Scotland.

Publications

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2024

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 and Lindsay, Bobby ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9074-3980 (2024) Serious harm: six lessons since Lachaux. Journal of Media Law, (doi: 10.1080/17577632.2024.2421061) (Early Online Publication)

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (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, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (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, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2023) Does Hastings matter for consumer protection? Hastings v Finsbury Orthopaedics Ltd. Journal of Professional Negligence, 2023(2), pp. 99-103.

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (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, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2023) Involuntariness in negligence actions. Legal Studies, 43(1), pp. 122-138. (doi: 10.1017/lst.2022.28)

2022

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2022) Obligations. Jurisprudence, 13(3), pp. 418-488. (doi: 10.1080/20403313.2022.2091833)[Book Review]

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (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, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2021) Private Law Theory and the Past. Working Paper. School of Law, University of Glasgow. (Unpublished)

2019

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2019) Commentary on Jex-Blake v Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh (1873). In: Cowan, Sharon, Kennedy, Chloe and Munro, Vanessa 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, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2019) Responsibility for another's wrong in Scotland: stick with Lister or twist with Mohamud? Juridical Review, 2019(3), pp. 211-230.

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (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, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (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, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (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, Hector L. and Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2017) Private autonomy and the protection of the weaker party: historical. In: Weatherill, Stephen and Vogenauer, Stefan (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)

2016

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2016) Good statutory Samaritans: the standard expected. Journal of Professional Negligence, 31(2), pp. 173-177.

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2016) Lord Kames: Legal and Social Theorist by Andreas Rahmatian. Journal of Legal History, 37(3), pp. 331-334. (doi: 10.1080/01440365.2016.1235778)[Book Review]

2015

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2015) Law and Religion: The Legal Teachings of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations, (Eds.) Wim Decoct, Jordan J. Ballor, Michael Germann and Laurent Waelkens. Edinburgh Law Review, 19(2), pp. 285-287. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2015.0283)[Book Review]

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2015) The Roman Law of Obligations, Descheemaeker, E. (ed.). Law Quarterly Review, 131(April), pp. 338-340. [Book Review]

McCarthy, Frankie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6760-4819, Chalmers, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5423-8917 and Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (Eds.) (2015) Essays in Conveyancing and Property Law in Honour of Professor Robert Rennie. Open Book Publishers: Cambridge. ISBN 9781783741472

2014

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)

2012

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)

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Number of items: 22.

Articles

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2023) Involuntariness in negligence actions. Legal Studies, 43(1), pp. 122-138. (doi: 10.1017/lst.2022.28)

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2019) Responsibility for another's wrong in Scotland: stick with Lister or twist with Mohamud? Juridical Review, 2019(3), pp. 211-230.

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2016) Good statutory Samaritans: the standard expected. Journal of Professional Negligence, 31(2), pp. 173-177.

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)

Books

Book Sections

Book Reviews

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2022) Obligations. Jurisprudence, 13(3), pp. 418-488. (doi: 10.1080/20403313.2022.2091833)[Book Review]

Bogle, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0743-8411 (2015) The Roman Law of Obligations, Descheemaeker, E. (ed.). Law Quarterly Review, 131(April), pp. 338-340. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Research Reports or Papers