The Centre for Legal History provides a lively social and scholarly focus for the active research community – faculty members, postdoctoral researchers, and postgraduate students - in legal history, including Civil (Roman) law, at Edinburgh Law School. The University has a long tradition in the field, as the Chair of Civil Law was founded in 1710, with Civil Law taught continuously in the University since then. Major interests pursued are Roman law, the learned laws in the Middle Ages, the history of law in Europe, the history of Scots law, and legal history in Louisiana.
Offering a comprehensive contextual analysis of Maine’s Ancient Law, the monograph explores significant role of Roman law in shaping the narrative, particularly its influence on Maine’s arguments and conclusions. It also positions Maine’s work within the broader intellectual debates of the nineteenth century.
