John W. Cairns is Professor of Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include law and the Enlightenment, the history of Scots law, codification in Louisiana, and law and slavery. He has published two collections of essays in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series: Law, Lawyers, and Humanism: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 1 and Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2 (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). He is the co-editor, with Paul J. du Plessis, of The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh University Press, 2007).

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Foundation and Continuity; 1. From Claves Curiae to Senators of the College of Justice: Changing Rituals and Symbols in Scottish Courts ; 2. English Looters and Scottish Lawyers: the ius commune and the College of Justice; 3. Ius Civile in Scotland ca. 1600; 4. The Law, the Advocates and the Universities in Late Sixteenth-Century Scotland; 5. Scottish Law, Scottish Lawyers and the Status of the Union; 6. Natural Law, National Laws, Parliaments and Multiple Monarchies: 1707 and Beyond; 7. Attitudes to Codification and the Scottish Science of Legislation, 1600-1830; Significance of Dutch Humanism; 8. Importing our Lawyers from Holland: Netherlands’ Influences on Scots Law and Lawyers in the Eighteenth Century; 9. Three Unnoticed Scottish Editions of Pieter Burman’s Antiquitatum Romanarum brevis description; 10. Legal Study in Utrecht in the late 1740s: The Legal Education of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes; Development of the Legal Profession; 11. The Formation of the Scottish Legal Mind in the Eighteenth Century: Themes of Humanism and Enlightenment in the Admission of Advocates; 12. Advocates’ Hats, Roman Law and Admission to the Bar, 1580-1812; 13. Alfenus Varus and the Faculty of Advocates: Roman Visions and the Manners that were Fit for Admission to the Bar in the Eighteenth Century; Blackstone, Feudalism and Institutional Writings; 14. Craig, Cujas, and the Definition of Feudum; Is a Feu a Usufruct?; 15. Blackstone, an English Institutist: Legal Literature and the Rise of the Nation State; 16. Professorial Classification of English Common Law; 17. Blackstone, Kahn Freund, and the Contract of Employment; 18. The Moveable Text of Mackenzie: Bibliographical Problems for the Scottish; Concept of Institutional Writing.