Great Britain, Legal History, Law, Congress, Wales, Scotland, Conference papers and proceedings, Dublin, Ireland 

This volume consists of a collection of papers delivered at the conference held in Dublin in July 2003 in the biennial British Legal History series. They demonstrate the vibrant character of contemporary research into all aspects of legal history and also confirm its world-wide appeal. Papers included examine aspects of the legal history of Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and England but also the legal history from somewhat further afield: Continental Europe, America and the Antipodes. The migration of legal institution and doctrines furnishes a unifying themes for several of the papers.  

Content:
Isolt's trial and ordeal : a legal-historical analysis / Roger D. Groot -- Borrowings in the Welsh lawbooks / Dafydd Jenkins -- The use and adaptation of the action of replevin in Ireland during the reign of Edward I / Paul Brand -- The Danes and the marriage break-up of Philip II of France / Frederik Pedersen -- Birlaw courts and birleymen / W.D.H Sellar -- The role of exceptions in Continental civil procedure / C.H. van Rhee -- Sir William Petty and the Court of Admiralty in Restoration Ireland / Kevin Costello -- The value of judicial independence : evidence from eighteenth-century England / Daniel M. Klerman and Paul G. Mahoney -- The rule of law in the settler-colonial encounter : the case of Western Australia / Jule Evans -- Indigenous customary rights and the common law in Aotearoa New Zealand / David V. Williams -- Colourful adventures of the law : legal regulation of colour as sign from heraldry to trade mark law / N.M. Dawson -- Charles Hunt's haircut : getting down to the roots of a legal adventure / Richard W. Ireland -- The influence of Sir Walter Crofton's 'Irish system' on prison reform in Germany / Thomas Krause -- Law in early Iowa : one adventure / Russell K. Osgood -- The firm as an entity before the Companies Acts / Joshua Getzler and Mike Macnair -- Adventures in training : the Irish genesis of the 'remarkable and far-sighted' Select Committee on Legal Education, 1846 / Colum Kenny -- Politics, law and work in modern Britain : the 1965 Redundancy Payments Act / Richard Whitting -- An adventure of the law : the Spanish Champagne case / Peter Spiller. 

Includes bibliographical references.
Item donated by Graham Price.

"The Sixteenth British Legal History Conference (designated a British and Irish Legal History Conference) was held [at] ... University College Dublin from 2 to 5 July 2003 ..."--Preface.

Categorized by organization (Irish Legal History Society (ILHS)), then author/editor, then year.