Forty-Fourth Annual Conference

The 44th Annual Conference and AGM of the Scottish Legal History Group will be held on 5 October 2024 at the Reading Room of the Faculty of Advocates in Edinburgh. It would be helpful if attendees could notify Dr Leslie Dodd in advance.The agenda is as follows:

10:00

Coffee

10:30

Prof Dauvit Broun (Glasgow), "Scottish kings as legislators: the earliest examples"

11:15

Prof Laura Macgregor (Edinburgh), "The use of the civil law as a source in the works of George Joseph Bell"

12:00

AGM

12:30

Break for refreshments


14:00

Prof James Chalmers (Glasgow), "The modern use of institutional writers by the Scottish criminal courts"

14:45

Dr Jonathan Brown & Dr Mary Neal (Strathclyde), "'Unduly Restrictive or Utterly Ineffective?' The Criminalisation of Abortion and Concealment of Birth in Scotland"


15:30

Prof Louise Jackson (Edinburgh), "Gender equalities at work: mobilising women's legal rights in Scotland 1970-1998"

16:15

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