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Author: John W Cairns
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-07-27
Total Pages: 458
ISBN-13: 0748682155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique deals with broad themes in Legal History, such as the development of Scots Law through the major legal thinkers of the Enlightenment, essays on Roman law and miscellaneous essays on the literary and philosophic
Author: Ian Hunter
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2019-01-22
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 1474449247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. The essays collected in this volume range across this exciting and contested field. These 13 new essays acknowledge Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights into the cultural and political role of law and rights in a variety of historical contexts and circumstances.
Author: Paul Maharg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1351877992
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPaul Maharg presents a critical inquiry into the identity and possibilities of legal education, and an exploration of transformational alternatives to our current theories and practices of teaching and learning the law. His work takes the view that bodies of interdisciplinary theory and knowledge of the history of legal education are important to all stages of legal education. He also argues that new learning designs - such as transactional learning - need to be developed to help students, educators and lawyers deal with the transitions and challenges facing them now and in the foreseeable future. Throughout, discussions of theory are spliced with case studies of academic and professional legal learning, particularly in the field of technology-enhanced learning. The content of the book will be updated in a community of practice wiki at http://www.transforming.org.uk, which will also allow readers to comment and expand on the book's final chapter.
Author: Jesse Norman
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018-09-11
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0465093213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA dazzlingly original, "remarkable" account of the life and thought of legendary economist Adam Smith (Financial Times). Adam Smith (1723-1790) is now widely regarded as the greatest economist of all time. But what he really thought, and the implications of his ideas, remain fiercely contested. Was he an eloquent advocate of capitalism and individual freedom? A prime mover of "market fundamentalism"? An apologist for human selfishness? Or something else entirely? In the tradition of The Worldly Philosophers, Adam Smith dispels the myths and caricatures, and provides a far more complex portrait of the man. Offering a highly engaging account of Smith's life and times, political philosopher Jesse Norman explores his work as a whole and traces his influence over two centuries to the present day. Finally, he shows how a proper understanding of Smith can help us address the problems of modern capitalism. The Smith who emerges from this book is not only the greatest of all economists but a pioneering theorist of moral philosophy, culture, and society.
Author: Peter Schröder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-24
Total Pages: 343
ISBN-13: 1108489443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how Vattel used the natural law tradition to frame a pragmatic and treaty-oriented model of the law of nations.
Author: Alexander Broadie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-04-10
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9780521003230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to the Scottish Enlightenment offers a philosophical perspective on an eighteenth-century movement that has been profoundly influential on western culture. A distinguished team of contributors examines the writings of David Hume, Adam Smith, Thomas Reid, Adam Ferguson, Colin Maclaurin and other Scottish thinkers, in fields including philosophy, natural theology, economics, anthropology, natural science and law. In addition, the contributors relate the Scottish Enlightenment to its historical context and assess its impact and legacy in Europe, America and beyond. The result is a comprehensive and accessible volume that illuminates the richness, the intellectual variety and the underlying unity of this important movement. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers in philosophy, theology, literature and the history of ideas.
Author: John W Cairns
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-07-27
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 0748682112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection brings together a selection of the most cited articles published by Professor John W. Cairns. Essays range from Scots Law from 16th and 17th century Scotland, through to the 18th century influence of Dutch Humanism into the 19th century, a
Author: Remus Valsan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-06-17
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1474403530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the private law of England, Scotland, France, Quebec and the Netherlands, this volume explores how the private law concepts of trust and patrimony interact in various jurisdictions, with a view to advancing the understanding of the trust as a fundamental legal concept. It comprises new and previously published papers written by distinguished comparative law scholars. The authors investigate whether the common law trust could be understood as a civil law patrimony by appropriation, and whether civil law and mixed traditions could create local versions of the common law trust using patrimony as the main conceptual building block.
Author: Alexander Broadie
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2012-11-01
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 0857904981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Scottish Enlightenment was one of the truly great intellectual and cultural movements of the world. Its achievements in science, philosophy, history, economics, and other disciplines also, were immense; and its influence has hardly if at all been dimmed in the intervening two centuries. This book, written for the general reader, considers the achievement of this most astonishing period of Scottish history. It attends not only to the ideas that made the Scottish Enlightenment such a wondrous moment, but also to the people themselves who generated these ideas – men such as David Hume and Adam Smith, who are still read for the sake of the light they shed on contemporary issues.
Author: Eamon P. H. Keane
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2023-08-15
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1683932528
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays presented in The Ian Willock Collection on Law and Justice in the Twenty-First Century by those who knew Ian Willock, as well as those who have been inspired by his concerns, represent the wide compass of Ian’s interests. These range from a concern with the development of legal regulation to the relationship between social change and the justice system, as well as his particular interest in the accessibility of the justice system. This tribute provides a microcosm of the changes and shifts which occurred in legal education and the legal profession in the years between 1964 and the current century. The profound impact of Ian Willock’s life work is evident through the wide-ranging essays in this collection.
