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Judge and jurist : essays in memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
Title:
Judge and jurist : essays in memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry
Author:
Rodger of Earlsferry, Alan, Lord, 1944-2011, Honoree.
ISBN:
9780191668500

9781299966581

9780191758379
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xlviii, 699 pages) : illustrations
Contents:
Alan Ferguson Rodger: a tribute given at the Memorial Service held in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh on 25 November 2011 / Alan Ferguson Rodger: a tribute given at the Memorial Service held in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh on 25 November 2011 / Alan Ferguson Rodger: a tribute given at the Memorial Service held in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford on 11 February 2012 / Lord Rodger: an Italian tribute / Dissenting judgments / Some reflections on Lord Rodger's contribution to the development of the common law / Lord Rodger's mental health law / Fairchild and after / Lord Rodger's notebooks / Foreign laws and languages / The view from behind the bench: the role of judicial assistants in the UK Supreme Court / "Strasbourg has spoken" / The form and language of Lord Rodger's judgments / Lord Rodger and statute law / "Fama" and "infamia" in the Roman legal system: the cases of Afrania and Lucretia / Damaging a slave / The dating of the lex Aquilia / Lenel's Palingenesia: two footnotes to Rodger / "Grappling with the difficult subjects with which the Roman lawyers liked to grapple" / Agree to disagree: local jurisdiction in the lex Irnitana / Lawmaking in times of disorder / Borrowed plumes and robbed freedmen: some aspects of plagiarism in Roman antiquity / Pits and pruners: culpa and social practice in Digest 9.2. / An inheritance lost and a fraudulent slave / Lenel and Daube: a cross-channel friendship / Some thoughts on the formulae ficticiae of citizenship in Gaius 4.37: a form of reception? / Jurisdiction in Urso / "Unworthiness" in the Roman law of succession / Words and concepts: trust and patrimony / Freeing from slavery in eighteenth-century Scotland / Lawyer for all time / Lord Rodger and the criminal law / The enrichment claim of the mala fide improver of another's property / Thinking about some Scots law: Lord Rodger and unjustified enrichment / Communis error facit ius / Objectivity and subjectivity in contract interpretation / Ae fond kiss: a private matter? / Embalmed in Rettie: the City of Glasgow Bank and the liability of trustees / Some thoughts on the nature of liability for negligence in Scots law / Legal academics: forgotten players or interlopers? / Common law retrospectivity / Faith, trust, and charity / Al-Skeini and the extra-territorial application of the European Convention on Human Rights / Trees and neighbours / Performance of an obligation by a third party / The Courts, the Church, and the Constitution revisited / Legislating in vain
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