Foreword Patrick S. Hodge, Lord Hodge, Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom List of Contributors 1. Introduction Jonathan Hardman, Alisdair D J MacPherson and Adelyn L M Wilson 2. Conceptions of Commercial Law in Scotland Jonathan Hardman and Alisdair D J MacPherson 3. Commerce and Contract Law in Scotland Hector L MacQueen 4. Public and Private Commercial Law Distinguished: The Impact of the 1707 Union on the Commercial Law of Scotland Robert Brett Taylor 5. Before Bell: Scots Law, Commerce, and the British Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century Andrew Mackillop 6. The Contribution of Commerce and Industry to Scots Commercial Law in the Eighteenth Century Hunter Harris 7.

The Use of the Civil law and the Law Merchant as Sources in the Works of George Joseph Bell Laura Macgregor 8. "Elasticity" in the Legal Curriculum: The Introduction of the Class of Mercantile Law in the University of Edinburgh John W Cairns 9. The Contribution of Practitioners to Scots Commercial Law John Finlay 10. The Contribution of Law Reform to the Development of Scots Commercial Law Colin Tyre, the Rt Hon Lord Tyre 11. The Contribution of the Judiciary to Scots Commercial Law Sarah P L Wolffe, the Hon Lady Wolffe 12. Historical Approaches in Modern Commercial Law Angus Glennie, the Rt Hon Lord Glennie 13. The Value of History to Modern Commercial Law James Drummond Young, the Rt Hon Lord Drummond Young 14. Epilogue Jonathan Hardman, Alisdair D J MacPherson and Adelyn L M Wilson Index.