Acknowledgements; Introduction; Enlightened Legal Education; 1. Lawyers, Law Professors, and Localities: The Universities of Aberdeen, 1680-1750; 2. Rhetoric, Language and Roman Law: Legal Education and Improvement in Eighteenth-Century Scotland; 3. The Influence of Smith's Jurisprudence on Legal Education in Scotland; 4. The First Edinburgh Chair in Law: Grotius and the Scottish Enlightenment; The Development of the Glasgow Law School; 5. The Origins of the Glasgow Law School: The Professors of Civil Law, 1714-1761; 6. William Crosse, Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Glasgow, 1746-1749: A Failure of Enlightened Patronage; 7. "As Famous a School for Law as Edinburgh for Medicine": The Glasgow Law School, 1761-1801; 8.

John Millar, Ivan Andreyevich Tret'yakov, and Semyon Efimovich Desnitsky: A Legal Education in Scotland, 1761-1767; 9. From 'Speculative' to 'Practical' Legal Education: The Decline of the Glasgow Law School, 1801-1830; Enlightened Critique: Crime, Courts and Slavery; 10. John Millar's Lectures on Scots Criminal Law; 11. Hamesucken and the Major Premiss in the Libel 1672-1770: Criminal Law in the Age of Enlightenment; 12. Ethics and the Science of Legislation: Legislators, Philosophers, and Courts in Eighteenth-Century Scotland; 13. Stoicism, Slavery, and Law: Grotian Jurisprudence and its Reception; Critiques: Literature and Legal History; 14. The Noose Hidden Under Flowers: Marriage and Law in Saint Ronan's Well; 15. A Note on the Bride of Lammermoor: Why Scott did not mention the Dalrymple Legend until 1830.