Law and Authority in British Legal History, 1200-1900

Mark Godfrey is Professor of Legal History at the University of Glasgow, where he teaches private law and legal history.

• 1. The judicial interpretation of legislation in later thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century England Paul Brand; 2. The authority of Parliament and the scope of the Statute of Uses 1536 N. G. Jones; 3. Developing a prerogative theory for the authority of the Chancery: the French connection Ian Williams; 4. Authority and precedent David Ibbetson; 5. Legislation and authority in early modern Scotland Andrew Simpson; 6. The sources of early Scots consistorial law: reflections on law, authority and jurisdiction during the Scottish Reformation Thomas Green; 7. Conciliar authority and equitable jurisdiction in early modern Scotland J. D. Ford; 8. Legal authorities as instruments of conflict management: the long endgame of Anglo-Hanseatic relations (1474–1603) Alain Wijffels; 9. History and the justification of governmental authority and individual rights in the age of John Locke and Samuel Pufendorf Andreas Thier; 10. The commissioners for claims on France and the case of the Baron de Bode, 1815–61 Michael Lobban; 11. The authority of law in a bureaucratic framework: the nineteenth-century medicine stamp duty Chantal Stebbings; 12. The authority of treatises in English law, 1800–1936 Stephen Waddams; 13. Maitland and Austin: legal history and legal thought in the late nineteenth century John Hudson.