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Adam Smith’s Lectures on Jurisprudence: Their Influence on Legal Education

In: Adam Smith: International Perspectives

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  • John W. Cairns

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On 8 January 1760, on a motion made before the Faculty of Advocates (the Scottish bar), the Faculty passed a resolution, noting that regular lectures were given in the University of Edinburgh on the law of nature and nations, expressing confidence in the professor of that subject, and recommending all those who intended to become ‘candidates for the office of Advocate, to apply to the study of the law of Nature and Nations’, because ‘it concerns the honour of the Faculty that their members should be versant in every part of polite Literature and particularly in the law of Nature and Nations, the fountain of Justice and equity.’1 After noting on 5 January 1762 that this resolution had not been adhered to, and establishing a committee to consider how to make it effective, on 24 November the Faculty resolved as follows: The Dean and Faculty of Advocates considering that they by their Resolution dated 8th January 1760 recommended it to all young Gentlemen who intended to offer themselves Candidates for the office of Advocate to apply to the study of the Law of Nature and Nations, And considering that it concerns the Honour of the Faculty that their members should be versant in every part of polite literature and more particularly in those parts of Learning which are immediately connected with Roman Law and the Law of Scotland. They therefore recommend to the private Examinators in both Branches of the Law from and after the twelfth Day of June next to examine Candidates upon the Law of Nature and Nations in so far as it is connected with the Civil Law or the Law of this Country. And they hereby appoint That a Copy of this their Resolution to be sent to all the professors in the University of Edinburgh in order that the same may be intimated to the Students at their respective Colleges.2

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  • John W. Cairns, 1993. "Adam Smith’s Lectures on Jurisprudence: Their Influence on Legal Education," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Hiroshi Mizuta & Chuhei Sugiyama (ed.), Adam Smith: International Perspectives, chapter 4, pages 63-83, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-22520-0_4
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22520-0_4
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