Lawyers, the Law and History: Irish Legal History Society Discourses and Other Papers, 2005-2011

by Norma M. Dawson (Editor), Felix M. Larkin (Editor)

This volume is a wide-ranging collection of legal history studies on aspects of the law and its interaction with wider society in Ireland and Scotland, presented to the Irish Legal History Society. Chapters Sir Edward Carson and some aspects of the Archer-Shee case * Ulysses, Joyce, and the law * King's Inns and the foundation of the Inn of Court of Northern Ireland * judicial review and the Constitution - what did the drafters actually intend? * judicial dress in the county and circuit courts * maintaining slavery without a code noir - Scotland 1700-78 * 'The Counsellor': Daniel O'Connell and the law * the Irish Chancery project * sheriffs, landlords, and tenants in Victorian Ireland * W.E. Wylie, KC * on lawyers, their obligations, and the Cicero collection at King's Inns Library * James McGuire's presidential address to the Society (November 2009). ( Irish Legal History Society)

321 pages, Hardcover

First published August 30, 2012