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The Editors of the St Andrews Law Journal are pleased to present Zeb Micic’s paper, The Law of Treasure in England and Scotland, as the Journal’s latest release. In this paper, Zeb discusses historic interpretations and prescriptions of treasure law in England and Scotland over the past millenium. Beginning with Edward the Confessor’s English laws […]

The editors of the Law Journal are pleased to present a paper submitted by contributor Katherine Montana for our Summer 2021 publications. “(Preamble) In 1567, Mary, Queen of Scots was deposed by Scottish nobles who did not favour her rule. After the 1568 Battle of Langside that saw her pitted against these nobles, she fled […]

The editors of the Law Journal are pleased to present a guest paper submitted by Dr Robert S. Shiels for our Summer 2021 publications. “(Preamble) In this paper, Robert Shiels, a graduate of the universities of Dundee and Glasgow, and a solicitor in Scotland, considers the politically sensitive circumstances arising at the outbreak of the […]

Review the full Preview-Review of Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law (2021) here:  PreviewReview_CommonLawCivilLawColonialLaw_OR Abstract: | Common Law, Civil Law, and Colonial Law: Essays in Comparative Legal History from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Centuries offers twelve essays, individually embodying the characteristic uniqueness of comparative legal history. Each essay provides a unique methodology, balancing […]

‘This Week in Legal History…’ is a running project aiming to highlight historic legal issues from across our community at St Andrews. Our goal is to eventually recieve enough content to publish biweekly. Some of these issues are momentous in changing judicial or legislative history, and some are urgently deserving of more attention for their […]

Guidelines and Policies for Contributors (Revised 07/02/2022) It is advised that prospective contributors consult the Law Journal’s WordPress site and our blogposts that further illustrate what is expected during our submission periods. Please consult our full pdf document for a complete overview of what you need to know as a contributor to the Journal: Guidelines […]

It gives us great pleasure to present for publication the Inaugural Issue (Issue 1) of the St Andrews Law Journal, for Martinmas Semester, Winter 2020. On behalf of all the editors of the Editorial Board, and our brilliant contributors, we hope you take as much joy from reading our corpus of works as we have […]

The New York Times had these words to say of the infamous American Attorney, Clarence Darrow, upon his death in 1938: “He resorted to no quillets of the law. He was defending justice in his conception of it, a justice tempered with sympathy and humanity”. Clarence Darrow fought fire with fire. Accused of attempting to […]

On this day… in 1968, The Chicago Eight trial began before Judge Julius Hoffman. Antiwar protests in the United States had reached new levels by 1968. Increasing involvement in Vietnam, coupled with heightened organised protest around student campuses culminated in violent clashes between police forces and demonstrators in Chicago on the week of the Democratic […]