Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. List of contributors x
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Conceptions of Commercial Law in Scotland 12
7. 2 Commerce and Contract Law in Scotland 57
8. 3 Public and Private Commercial Law Distinguished: The Impact of the 1707 Union on the Commercial Law of Scotland 90
9. 4 Scots Law, Commerce and the British Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century 120
10. 5 The Contribution of Commerce and Industry to Scots Commercial Law in the Eighteenth Century 146
11. 6 The Use of the Civil Law and the Law Merchant as Sources in the Works of George Joseph Bell 173
12. 7 ‘Elasticity’ in the Legal Curriculum: The Introduction of the Class of Mercantile Law in the University of Edinburgh 208
13. 8 The Contribution of Practitioners to Scots Commercial Law 282
14. 9 The Contribution of Law Reform to the Development of Scots Commercial Law 306
15. 10 The Contribution of the Judiciary to Scots Commercial Law 338
16. 11 Historical Approaches in Modern Commercial Law 362
17. 12 The Value of History to Modern Commercial Law 379
18. Epilogue 414
19. Index 416