POSTPONED - The Trial of Captain Green - Research Internships Session 1
Location:
Date/time
Mon 30 March 2020
*** This series of events have been postponed to a later date ***
Edinburgh Law School, The Centre for Legal History and the University of St Andrews present
Research Internships: The Trial of Captain Green
March 2020 to June 2020
If you are a research student with an interest in legal history, this is a project that will:
- Refine and develop your skills in archival research
- encourage and facilitate your ability to work cooperatively with others
- allow you to engage with a secondary literature in a critical fashion
- allow you to “network” with others of similar interests
- assist you in thinking about your own research and the possibilities that archives might hold for it.
Background:
In 1705, Thomas Green, an English captain, was tried for piracy and convicted by the Scottish Court of Admiralty, before being hanged at Leith. The trial has often been thought to be a travesty, reflecting anti-English sentiment in the run-up to the union of 1707. It was also a strange product of the Darien disaster. Recently, the late J. Irvine Smith, contrary to most scholars, has concluded that Green was guilty.
Research Project Aims:
This is a project for research students in legal history and history at the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews. You will act as Research Interns, to collaborate with the aim of producing a detailed account and overview of the trial including:
- a narrative reconstruction of events leading up to the trial and the trial itself;
- a case analysis (facts / issues / arguments / holdings);
- and an analysis of present-day issues / questions that can be drawn out of the case.
There will be a budget for travel and approved research expenses. The number will be limited to 8 students.
If you are interested in participating, please contact:
Professor John W. Cairns at the University of Edinburgh - john.cairns@ed.ac.uk
Professor Caroline Humfress at the University of St Andrews - ch226@st-andrews.ac.uk
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