Foreword
Patrick S. Hodge, Lord Hodge, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
List of Contributors
Introduction
Jonathan Hardman, Alisdair D J MacPherson and Adelyn L M Wilson
1. Conceptions of Commercial Law in Scotland
Jonathan Hardman and Alisdair D J MacPherson
2. Commerce and Contract Law in Scotland
Hector L MacQueen
3. Public and Private Commercial Law Distinguished: The Impact of the 1707 Union on the Commercial Law of Scotland
Robert Brett Taylor
4. Before Bell: Scots Law, Commerce, and the British Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
Andrew Mackillop
5. The Contribution of Commerce and Industry to Scots Commercial Law in the Eighteenth Century
Hunter Harris
6. The Use of the Civil law and the Law Merchant as Sources in the Works of George Joseph Bell
Laura Macgregor
7. "Elasticity" in the Legal Curriculum: The Introduction of the Class of Mercantile Law in the University of Edinburgh
John W Cairns
8. The Contribution of Practitioners to Scots Commercial Law
John Finlay
9. The Contribution of Law Reform to the Development of Scots Commercial Law
Colin Tyre, the Rt Hon Lord Tyre
10. The Contribution of the Judiciary to Scots Commercial Law
Sarah P L Wolffe, the Hon Lady Wolffe
11. Historical Approaches in Modern Commercial Law
Angus Glennie, the Rt Hon Lord Glennie
12. The Value of History to Modern Commercial Law
James Drummond Young, the Rt Hon Lord Drummond Young
Epilogue
Jonathan Hardman, Alisdair D J MacPherson and Adelyn L M Wilson
Index
