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Informationen zum Autor Elspeth Reid is Professor of Scottish Private Law at the University of Edinburgh. She has published extensively in Scotland and abroad on comparative private law themes, including in particular the law of delict/tort. She is the Series Editor of the Edinburgh Studies in Law monograph series. David Carey Miller is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Edinburgh and Analysis Editor of the Edinburgh Law Review Zusammenfassung This collection of essays considers the work of Professor Sir Thomas Smith QC (1915--1988) and! through that work! the development of Scots law as a mixed legal system. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1 While One Hundred Remain: T B Smith and the Progress of Scots Law ; Kenneth G C Reid; 2 The Rational and the National: Thomas Brown Smith; George L Gretton; 3 Two Toms and an Ideology for Scots Law: T B Smith and Lord Cooper of Culross; Hector L MacQueen; 4 T B Smith as a Legal Historian; John Blackie; 5 Borrowing from English Equity and Minority Shareholders' Actions; Niall R Whitty; 6 "Calculated to our Meridian"? The Ius Commune, Lex Mercatoria and Scots Commercial Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; A D M Forte; 7 Glory with Gloag or the Stake with Stair? T B Smith and the Scots Law of Contract; Hector L MacQueen; 8 T B Smith's Property; D L Carey Miller; 9 T B Smith: a Pioneer of Modern Medical Jurisprudence; David W Meyers; 10 [to follow]; C Gane; 11 Strange Gods in the Twenty-First Century: the Doctrine of Aemulatio Vicini; Elspeth Reid; 12 Travelling the High Road with T B Smith: Nationalism and Internationalism in the Defence of the Civilian Tradition; Vernon Valentine Palmer; 13 The Ties that Bind: T B Smith as a Comparative Lawyer; Daniel Visser; 14 The Recognition Principle - Tracing Sir Thomas' Vision to the Present European Law; Erich Schanze; 15 Professor Sir Thomas Smith QC - a Bibliography; Ross Gilbert Anderson; Index....
